北京学武指南

Established in 2003, Tianyi Kung Fu Club is one of the longest-running martial arts clubs in Beijing. Classes are open to people of all levels of fitness, regardless of their martial arts background. Shaolin kung fu, Xingyi kung fu and self-defense techniques are taught at the club. Classes are taught in Chinese with English translation.     

Activities for Older People

Along with the improvement of the standard of living and medical care the lifespan of people in China has increased greatly in the 1990s. There are more older people living in Shanghai, Beijing and Tianjin than in the rest of the country. The government and     

Children''''s Good Fortune—After the Implementation of the Law of Adoption

On December 29 of 1991, the first law of adoption of China was passed at the 23rd session of the seventh National People's Congress, and was put into effect from April 1, 1992. (Please see our coverage on the revision of the law in 1998 in the third issue of last year.) With the guarantee of law in adoption, the number of     

Four Families Characterized by Culture

in recent years, such characteristic families as the family of Beijing opera, the family of calligraphy and the family of paper-cutting have emerged in the Beixinqiao Neighborhood of Dongcheng District, in Beijing.     

Tibet Buddhist Festival

IN the second week of the firstmonth of every lunar year in theTibetan Autonomous Prefecture ofSouthern Gansu Province, an importantreligious festival takes place. It is theannual displaying of Buddha's imageheld in one of the six renownedmonasteries of the Gelu (YellowReligion) School of Tibetan Buddhism.Here, in the Labrang Monastery, itmarks the gathering of many Tibetan     

BEIJING DECLARATION——Approved on September 15th by the 1995 UN FWCW

THE following is the full text of the Beijing Declaration: 1. We, the Governments, participating in the Fourth World Conference on Women, 2. Gathered here in Beijing, in September 1995, the year of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the United Nations,     

Dazzling Sixth Ethnic Games

WITH its first round in Lhasa, Tibet, the Beijing leg of the Sixth National Games for Traditional Sports of Minority Nationalities was China's largest sports ceremony at the end of this century. The reason for holding the games in two places for the first time is that the 50th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China and the 40th anniversary of democratic reform in the     

FROM THE CHINESE PRESS

Nie Li Admitted to the Standing Committee of NPC Nie Li, the first woman lieutenant general of China, was voted in by election as a member of the National People's Congress Standing Committee in March at the Second Session of the Eighth NPC. Nie Li was born in September, 1930, a native of Jiangjin in Sichuan Province. From 1955 to 1960 she specialized in the automatic control at Leningrad Precision Machinery and Optical Instrument College in the former Soviet Union. When she returned to China, she     

An Ordinary Mother Lived an Extraordinary Life

MY mother, Hou Xiangyun, was born into an ordinary family in the Eastern District in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province in the winter of 1890. My grandfather was a clerk in a pen shop. My grandmother managed the house and also made some money by winding silk yarn on a spool at home. Suzhou was one of the birthplaces of silk fabric in China, and the silk business was mostly concentrated in the Eastern District of the city. Almost every household was involved in the silk business.     

Successful Performance of Turandot in China

THH performance of the Chinese version of the Italian opera Turandotbefore the imperial Ancestral Temple in the Palace of the WorkingPeople in the capital of China, Beijing, caused a great sensation. Alarge number of opera lovers came from all over the world to see thisopera, which is based on a story supposed to have taken place in China.     

A Man Nationality Doctor Treats AIDS

SINCE the first case of AIDS was reported in the early 1980s the number of HIV patients has been increasing. According to the estimate of the World Health Organization, the number of HIV carriers has risen to 19.5 million, among whom 4:5 million have developed AIDS, resulting in 1 million AIDS-related deaths. By the year 2000, the number of HIV carriers worldwide is predicted to reach 40 million. By the time the global 40 million mark is reached, 90 percent of these cases are predicted to be in developing countries. Then the number of HIV carriers in Asia will likely surpass the number in Africa. China, comprising one-fifth of the world's population, with underdeveloped     

Lotus Pond in August

Sun Weimin. born in 1946 in Helongjiang Province. graduated from the middle school attached to the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1967 He went on to attend the Deparment of the Oil Painting of the Central Academy of Fine Arts and graduated with a master's degree in 1987. Now he is the dean of the Department of the Oil Painting. associate professor and member of Chinese Artists' Association. His master works include     

香魂女(1993)(英文)

Director:Xie Fei Cast:Siqin Gaowa Wu Yujuan,Le LuoSheng,Chen Baoguo and Jing Lei "Women from the Lake of Scented Souls" is about the lives of two women, in a Chinese village,in the 1990s.The film records the changes that occur in China during a period of social transition,in addition to the more subtle transformation in the psyches of the women.     

Chinese Rural Women's Decision-Making Status in Family

THE decision-making status of rural women in families is an important aspect which reflects the degree of their participation in development. Implementation of the Nairobi Forward-Looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women represent over the past 10 years has witnessed the gradual maturation of the production-related contract responsibility system in Chinese rural areas. Family functions have been further strengthened in both productive and social development in basic units such as production, consumption and trade. The period has been an important time for the rapid development of Chinese township     

Headgear for Women in Peking Opera

1.The helmet of Mu Guiying in the Women Generals of the Yang’S.2.The coronet.3.The headgear of the Manchu women.4.The headgear of the heroine in The White Snake。5.The headgear of the ordinary women.6.The helmet of GeneraI She in the Women Generals of the Yang’S.Headgear for Women in Peking Opera…     

The Historic Milestone for Global Women's Development——the UN FWCW in Retrospect

JUST as the Secretary-General of the United Nations Boutros Boutros-Ghali said in his written statement on the afternoon of September 4 in the main meeting hall of the Beijing International Convention Center, "The recognition of the     

Relocated People of the Three Gorges

IN April 1992, the deputies of the Fifth Session of the Seventh National People's Congress met in The Great Hall of the People in Beijing     

Women's Art and Women Artists in Cultural Change

ON March 3rd, 1998, an exhibition titled "Century · Women" drew up its curtain at the China Arts Gallery in Beijing, and attracted a vast number of visitors with its large scale, historical overview, and representation of a great number of painters with various styles. While people strolled in the gallery, a lively forum on the topic of "Visual Angle of Gender: Women's Arts and Women Artists in Cultural Change" was also taking place in Beijing. The purpose of the forum was to corroborate the academic value of the exhibition, as well as to analyze the cultural significance of women's art through the exploration of the history and present situation of Chinese women's art, Over 30 scholars and artists presented speeches on the topic; the audience numbered in the hundreds.     

女性新闻(英文)

Nationwide Selection of Moral Models全国道德模范评选To foster healthy trends in society,a nationwide campaign to select moral models was launched,in July, by the Civilization Office of the CPC(Communist Party of China)Central Committee,the All-China Federation of Trade Unions,the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Youth League,and the All-China Women's Federation.It is the largest activity of its kind since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949.     

An Invitation to Tea

TEA-drinking is very popular in southwest China's Sichuan Province, especially in the provincial capital Chengdu. Some people estimate that the number of tea houses in Chengdu is greater than that of restaurants in Beijing. I, too, have developed the habit of having a cup of tea in the morning. On holidays, when I am free in the morning, I get up early to rush to a tea house,