小杂技演员(英文)

Acrobatics has a long tradition in China. More than a thousand years ago a variety of acrobatics existed among folk culture. There are many "homes of acrobatics" in north and south China. Children from these places receive training from childhood. This group of photographs is of young performers in training, from the Liaocheng Acrobatic Troupe in Shandong Province. They have won several international prizes.     

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.     

The Invention of“Traces”

THE main figure in the woodcut entitled "Traces" is a fairy maiden taken from a fresco located in the Taoist temple known as Yongle Palace; originally painted by an anonymous artist of the Yuan Dynasty, this supernatural image from Taoism has both an elegant poise and the wisdom of an ordinary woman. The remainder of the woodcut is made up of sections of "A Sightseeing Tour," a painting of scenery from the Tang Dynasty which harmonizes surprisingly well with the fairy. "Traces" reminds us of the spiritual wealth bequeathed to us by the ancient artists. The image of women that it presents reminds us of the Chinese mothers     

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     

MUSIC OF ANTIQUITY

BEAUTIFUL music is flowing out from the fingertips of a dozen old men. They hail from the remote snowcapped Yulong mountain of Lijiang, located in southwestern China's Yunnan Province. The music that they play has a history of more than one thousand years. Performed in traditional costume with antique-looking musical instruments, the thoroughly original concert of ancient     

Marrying Far from My Hometown

WHERE I'm from, the countryside of Longsha Township in Wanxian City, Sichuan Province, most young women still find a husband with the help of a go-between. Families of this kind lack the bond of feelings and it is not uncommon that the husband beats the wife. Many wives go back their parents' home for asylum while those wives from     

Bronze Dragons and Phoenix Table

The table is one of the oldest kinds of furniture in China.Most, however, haven't survived as they were made ofbamboo or wood, The discovery of this bronze table gives usa chance to see a real object from the Warring States Periodfor the first time. This bronze table was unearthed from the tomb of a kingof the Zhongshan Kingdom during the Warring States Periodat today's Pingshan County, Hebei Province. The stand isformed from four two-winged dragons and four phoenixes     

up Against the Wind

Must be the most famous quote from Wu Shihong, a Chinese woman well known for her outstanding achievements and outgoing nature. Having faded from the information technology gossip-mill since her shock departure from Microsoft last year, the former General Manager of Microsoft Corporation (China), recently leapt back into the spotlight when she appeared as the new G.M. of a new enterprise at a press conference in Beijing's renowned Kempinski Hotel. The announcement came from TCL on the     

Liu Qingxia Fought for Social Progress

DURING the Chinese bourgeois democratic revolution of 1911, a young woman from a rich and powerful family, despite objection and retaliation from her clansmen, donated her family's immense properties to support the revolution and promote education. At the time this action created a sensation and gained praise from various walks of life. The woman who gave away her wealth and land was Liu Qingxia. Liu was born into a bureaucrat's family in 1877 in Anyang, Henan Province. Her father     

The First Time the Right Was Gained

ONE of the fundamental distinctionsof a modern society from atraditional one is that in a modernsociety every citizen enjoys his/her rightslaid down by law.Traditionally,womenwere expelled from society’s mainstream.influenced as it was by the dominatingConfucian ideology,one philosophy of