Chinese Acrobats

The China Acrobatics Troupe, founded in 1950, is the biggest acrobatics troupe in China and has won prizes throughout the world. The troupe specializes in training of young acrobats. Its young trainees are recruited from all parts of the country. They study general cultural courses while learning professional skills. An acrobat matures after a dozen or more years of intensive training.     

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Guan Weixing was born in 1940 in a small village in the Changbai Mountains of Northeast China. He graduated from the school attached to the Lu Xun Fine Arts Institute and in 1959 enrolled in the institute's Department of Oil Painting. In 1960. as an exception, he was admitted to an oil painting training class under a famous Romanian professor and completed his studies as a     

编辑推荐

Today Pottery Yuan Liang came to Beijing and became a signatory ceramicist at Today Art Museum in 2008, after he graduated from the Department of Ceramic Art, under the China Academy of Art, in Hangzhou, capital of East China＇s Zhejiang Province. Also that year, the museum helpedYuan establish Today Pottery, as a training center, to teach children how to make potteries. Within two years, Today Pottery was independent from the museum. Yuan became the owner of Today Pottery, and he employed teachers, who had graduated from the China Academy of Art, to guide the customers as they made potteries.     

公益

CCTF, Nestle Team Up to Improve Health of Newborns, Women
The China Children and Teenagers＇ Foundation （CCTF）, on April 22, 2014, received a donation of 30 million yuan （US $4.9 million） from Nestl6 China to fund a project aimed at improving the health of women and newborns in China. The donation was made in Beijing. The project, entitled ＂1,000 Days Action for Newborn and Maternal Health,＂ is intended to raise public awareness of the significance of the 1,000 days from conception to a child＇s second birthday, through various types of publicity and training. It is also intended to improve the nutrition of newborns and their mothers.     

An Unusual Judo Team

Unusual Li Lingling The deciding match of judo in the 48-kg category at the Eighth National Games was a showdown between the 27-year-old judo legend Li Aiyue from Zhejiang, the world champion, and a 19-year-old from Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region named Li Lingling. The fierce competition between the two best judo athletes in China attracted great attention of judo experts and fans. The result? Li Lingling won the championship. Li Lingling grew up in Guilin, a region famous for its beautiful landscape. Although she only began training in judo     

建议(英文)

Editor Grace Yang,from the United States,answers readers' questions about marriage and relationships in China. Dear Grace, Recently,I saw a movie called Mail Order Wife,in which a white male"ordered"a wife from Asia.Are there a lot of groups that organize such marriages in China?     

Promoting Harmony within Families

The ACWF and the Chinese Women＇s Research Society （CWRS） held, in Beijing on October 30, a seminar on eradicating sexual harassment in universities. Tan Lin, Member of ACWF＇s Secretariat and Vice-President of CWRS, Gao Shawei, Director of ACWF＇s Legal Department, and Xu Tao, Director of the Teachers＇ Department of China＇s Ministry of Education, spoke during the event. More than 50 people -- including leaders and teachers from 22 universities （in various regions of China）, each of which has established a women and gender research and training base with ACWF and CWRS＇s help -- attended. During the seminar, many participants offeredsuggestions on how to curb and prevent sexual harassment.     

FROM THE CHINESE PRESS

Young Lisu Women Go to Sea Eight Lisu women from the poor mountain areas in Yunnan Province successfully finished a one month training course for working on oceanliners. To help the poor, these women were recruited by the Shanghai Oceangoing Transportation Company under China Oceangoing Transportation (Group) Company. After receiving training for catering and room servicing, they will work on liners from China to Japan, South Korea and other     

女性动态(英文)

Women's Writing Competition Jointly Organized by Both Sides of the Taiwan Straits 海峡两岸联合举办女性征文竞赛A writing competition entitled "I am a new woman in China," jointly sponsored by the magazine "i" under Women of China (in Chinese) and the magazine "girl" under China Times (Taiwan), announced its results in Beijing on April 6. The grand award ceremony was held in the Great Hall of the People. Three of the 10 gold-prize winners and six of the 20 silver-prize winners were from the country's treasured island-Taiwan. Before the ceremony, Gu Xiulian, Vice-Chairperson of the NPC Standing Committee and President of the All-China Women's Federation, warmly greeted the winners from both sides of the Taiwan Straits.     

Woman Artist Engages in Children's Fine Art Education

XIE Lifang was born into a physics professor's family in Changsha, Hunan Province in 1949 when New China was founded. Living in a place surrounded by beautiful landscape of the Yuelu Mountain, she was fond of painting from her childhood. After she graduated from a junior high school, she was admitted to the Hunan Theatrical School to study stage arts. During the ten years' chaos of the "cultural revolution," (from 1966 to 1976) the school's regular education     

Youthful Charm

Half a century ago, China was known as "a sick man from East Asia," but in the 1990s, China has become one of the world sports competitors. Rapid progress has attracted the world's attention. Chinese women athletes, in particular, have made glorious     

Strict Father,Loving Mother, Good Daughter

ZHANG Nan, still a student at the Industrial Art Design Department of Beijing Industrial University, has already shown great talent in her paintings. Father Zhang Bo is an army art worker and Mother Zhao Suhua works at the Beijing Xuanwu District Committee. An Unexpected Prize As part of the China Year of Tourism, the large-scale "'97 China Art Exhibition" displayed galleries from individual artists, attracting attention from the art circles. When Zhang Bo learned of the news, the Zhang family held a family meeting in which they decided to send some     

Hibiscus and Wild Flowers

Woodcut artist Zheng Shuang convinces the audience through her display of poetic emotion Benefiting from training in watercoior paintings early in life, strict literary sketch training as well, as 10 years study at the Central Academy of Fine Aris, Zheng has mare than 30 years teaching experience at the Ouangzhou Academy of Fine Aris "I"m a roadside grass, a wild flower," Zheng Shuang describes herself She said she often talks to nature-the mountains, the trees, the flowers and the     

让大家想来村里当农民

S houan,a town in Chengdu,capital of Southwest China's Sichuan Province,is the largest osmanthus-production base in Southwestern China.Due largely to the saturated market,the traditional seedling industry,which used to be one of the pillar industries of Minjiang(a village in Shouan),has suffered from"severe winter"-the depressed market resulted in the stagnation of the seedling trade-during the past decade.     

China-Canada Project Teaches Wuyi Women Tailoring

HOT as it was, He Suhua was exceptionally happy at the opening ceremony of the Seventh Dress-making Training Class in Wuyi County, as part of the China Canada Women in Development Project. He, a head of women at Huaifu Village, dressed in clothes made by a woman who had studied in the third dress-making training class, led 11 new trainees to the county seat     

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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.     

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.     

从藏家牧女到“飞天仙女”

Flying a helicopter over the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is extremely difficult.The first group of young Tibetans in a helicopter-pilot program obtained their commercial helicopter-pilot licenses after extensive training.Jianreyixi,a native of Damxung County,in Lhasa,capital of Southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region,was one of the recipients.She liked to make and fly paper planes on the prairie when she was a child.She never thought,though,she would grow up to become a pilot.     

A Newly Elected University President

ST.VALENTINE'S Day. On February 14 of 1995, Wu Qidi received a special gift from her husband—a congratulatory phone call from Hainan, far south of China. That day she took office as president of Shanghai-based Tongji University after a democratic election. Wu Qidi is the first democratically-chosen university president in China and the first woman president of 88-year-old Tongji University.