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     

Ye Qiaobo Doesn't Regret The Struggle

WITH tears in her eyes, Ye Qiaobo stood on the awards platform at the 17th Winter Olympic Games held in 1994 in Lillehammer, Norway. She alone knew how hard it had been to win the bronze medal for the 1000-meter race in women's speed skating. Ye started skating when she was ten years old. For more than 20 years, she has suffered much but has never stopped moving forward. She has displayed even greater tenacity when she is injured.     

留学中国趣闻(英文)

Anne Sterling, a young Australian woman, is studying at a Chinese-language school in Shanghai. During the two years she has lived in the large city, she has had many amusing experiences. As she could not speak Chinese well when she first arrived in Shanghai, she made many funny mistakes. However, what impressed her most was her experience on the longdistance bus to Sichuan Province, in South     

New Understandings——Accepting Burdens

YAN Cailing lives on the Loess Plateau in northwestern China. In spite of her lightheartedness and cheer, she actually leads an uneasy life. At 37,she has three children. When she was small, her family lived a hard life. Her parents couldn't afford tuition fees for all their six daughters. She went to school without textbooks, always having to listen attentively to insure she would remember the teacher's lessons. In winter, she wore thin clothes and ragged shoes. Even when both her feet were frostbitten, she still continued to go to school. In 1974, Yan Cailing was admitted to a senior high school but then failed to pass the     

艺术空间

In August 2006, Peters, who had once worked as an artist and a teacher in the US, traveled to China. Why？ She was searching for a magical coat, which she had seen in a book about textiles when she was a student in Paris. She eventually found the coat in Guizhou, and she quickly realized it was an item of the Miao ethnic groups＇ traditional clothing. Peters met many Miao people in Guizhou, and she was fascinated by the minority group＇s history, culture and beautifully made crafts, such as the batik-dyed clothes.     

身影(英文)

Cao Aiwen曹爱文Twenty-three-year-old Cao Aiwen, a journalist with the metropolitan channel of Henan TV, which is based in Central China, has been praised as the "most beautiful female reporter in China," by netizens, because she put a story on hold to try to save a girl's life. At 5 pm on July 10, Cao was at work and she received a call that a girl had fallen into the Yellow River. Initially, she thought it was a great story. She rushed to the scene and watched as some people     

My Ping-Pong Family

WHEN I was born, my father was 40 and my mother was 36. Father is a man of few words and an introverted nature. He belongs to that type of people who are very tough and strong-willed; he has worked hard all his life. Mother, on the other hand, is extroverted and eager to excel. My personality is a combination of both of their characters. Father loves playing ping-pong ardently. He used to be a top player of the Henan provincial team and won the men's singles championship in a contest of five provinces in central and southern China. Mother, a worker at the No. 4 National Textile Mill in Zhengzhou, also loved to play ping-pong when she was young. It was because of the sport that she and Father were brought together and got married. When the Henan     

喜欢花衣衫(英文)

Whenever her mother was making up colorful clothes, the girl would sit around, watching with great interest. In her mind's eye, there appeared the happiest moment when she, in clothes of beautiful colors, became the focus of attention. She felt like a princess. At night, when she was lying in bed, she went off to her dreamland. "What a wonderful thing if one day I could design clothes for myself as well as for others, " she thought. Later the girl grew up and her sweet dream has come true.     

谭雪:剑指2008

Chinese fencer Tan Xue knelt down and shouted loudly to celebrate her victory on June 3, 2007, the last day of the Fencing World Cup in Tianjin. She was competing in the final of the team event, and China had been trailing 40-38 prior to Tan's second match. The star fencer proved herself when she went 9-5, which helped China defeat Russia 45-42. The 23-year-old fencer, who is from Tianjin, has won five singles and two team titles in the five fencing competitions held so far this year. Her performance makes her a good bet to win gold at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.     

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     

A Cancer Patient Strives to Become a Writer

LEI, 42, is spirited, sometimes even childish in her speech. Now, she is a writer with mature thoughts and a pure inner world. She has published several literary works. One would never guess her unusual story or the difficulties she has had to surmount. Doctors diagnosed Lei's colon cancer when she was 25, just half a year after     

Feeling the World in the Forest

SINCE July, 1986 China had formally proposed the resumption of full membership in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). However she failed to accomplish this wish till 1995 when the World Trade Organization (WTO) replaced the GATT. November 15, 1999 was an important day for China, because on that day China and the United States finally reached a bilateral agreement in Beijing concerning China's entry into the WTO after hard and tortuous negotiations. China was thus much nearer to the gate of WTO membership and the talk on China's     

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.     

NEW ON THE SHELF

A Survivor of the Chinese Revolution Author: Zeng Zhi Published by Guangdong People's Publishing House (First edition in Chinese, December, 1999) Zeng Zhi, one of the revolutionaries in the earlier Chinese Revolution led by the Communist Party of China, began her glorious career when she was only sixteen. She has experienced many incredible historical events during the Chinese     

I Want to Do Something

AT the First Women and Environment Conference of China, I saw Jiang Shaozhen, conference organizer, board director and general manager of the Sino-Japan funded Beijing Kangqiao Environmental Protection Limited Company, affiliated with Qinghua University. At the conference, she was awarded the title of "National Best Woman in Environmental Protection." But when she introduced herself, she tended to say, "I used to be a teacher at Qinghua University." Indeed, Jiang is fond of the teaching     

Juvenile Judge

SHANG Xiuyun was among the first sitting judges when the juvenile court was set up in Beijing 10 years ago. With enriched experience she has altered the way judges ask questions in court. She began the practice of inviting juvenile offenders, their parents, relatives, friends and teachers to the juvenile court to work hand in hand in dealing with cases: Facing their relatives and friends and hearing their heartfelt words, juvenile offenders would often be touched, thus bringing forth a positive attitude toward life.     

Envoys of Friendship

DANG Xiaodong, an orphan bornin Henan, has been in the UnitedStates for more than two years.Her new parents love her very much, "Itseems she has been a member of ourfamily all along. She shows greatconsideration to us, loves her elderbrother and gets on well with ourrelatives." When she left China, DangXiaodong was only one year old andwas still not walking properly. After shearrived in the United States, she learnedto dress herself, brush her teeth and eat     

AIona普拉提工作室

Alona Vostrikova teaches what she preaches; she promotes a strong body, and mind, during her Pilates classes. She teaches Pilates in the Westin Hotel, in Beijing＇s Chaoyang District. Alona was born and raised in Blagoveshchensk, a relatively small town in Russia that is close to the border with China. In fact, Alona was able to see China through binoculars. In 1997, Alona decided to cross the river and study Mandarin in Changchun, a city in Jilin Province. It was an opportunity for Alona, who had majored in physical education at the Russian State Academy of Physical Education, to start a new life and career-- in China.     

Yuxiang, a Blang Doctor

YUXIANG was bom the second of three sisters of a Blang family in Yunnan Province. When she was seven, she was sent to school in Blangshan Township of Menghai County. Though shabby, the school had several teachers with a strong sense of responsibility and rich experience in teaching. Under the influence of the teachers, Yuxiang soon became the top student. However, when she entered the fourth grade, her     

FROM THE CHINESE PRESS

Dr. Zhao Honored Dr. Zhao Xuefang is in charge of the Obstetrics/Gynecology Department of the Changzhi City People's Hospital in Shanxi Province. On April 23, 1994, she received from the hands of Qian Zhengying, Vice-Chairman of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the first Norman Bethune Medal, granted by the Ministry of Public Health and the Ministry of Labor and Personnel. Since Dr. Zhao began working in the medical field in 1963, she has continued to improve her techniques. After more than 30 years in medicine, she has treated thousands of patients without incident. Though Dr. Zhao has been diagnosed with cancer and has had two operations, she has continued to heal the wounded and rescue the dying. Her only wish is to relieve the pain of more patients as long as she can. —China Women's News