Water Lily and Lotus

Yang Zhiwan. 35. a native of Shantou. Guangdong. is a lecturer with the Fine Arts Department at the Shantou Pedagogical College. Though she lives in a small city. she has a keen sense of observation of the commonplace life. A short poem. a segment of music. a pool of clear water.a glistening dewdrop on a leaf—all bring a momentary shiver to her heart and     

A Pitiable Devil,a Satanic Hero——On Heathcliff's Character in Wuthering Heights

Emily Bronte is one of the most famous and outstanding novelists in English literature. In her only novel Wuthering Heights, Emily successfully depicts a very complex character – Heathcliff,who is the central figure of the whole story. He is regarded as a devil for his brutal behaviors of revenge. However, his ruthlessness on the surface cannot completely reflect the feeling of his interior world. As a matter of fact, he is only a solitary and pitiable man who lives a miserable life since he is born. Although he acts entirely like a devil in pursuing revenge, he still can be called a hero because of the good qualities hidden in the depth of his soul. Heathcliff is such a unique character in Wuthering Heights that it is always difficult for readers to comprehend his inner conflict and make an appropriate judgment for him. This thesis offers a detailed analysis of Heathcliff's special character and gives a new interpretation for the complexity and profundity of human nature.     

Saving The Baiji

AT a conference of the World Whaling Commission in Cambridge, England, in 1981, a special video tape caught the attention of experts at the meeting. It was a tape about the artificial raising of Baiji ill China, brought by Chen Peixun, head of the Baiji Coordinative Group and a research fellow of the Institute of Hydrobiology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences. On the screen was a large mammal with a long, pointed mouth, swimming in the water with its belly up one moment and down the next. It looked like a dolphin, but     

Twenty-Year Reunion

A massive earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter Scale struck the city of Tangshan at 3:42 a.m. on July 28, 1976. The city, which had history of well over 100 years and a population of over one million people, was left in ruins. The violent earthquake killed 242,469 people, with 164,851 people sustaining injuries, 2,652 children under 16 years of age left as orphans and 885 elderly people as widowers. Some 96 percent of the city's buildings and houses collapsed, with a direct economic loss of 10 billion yuan. Earthquake tremors spread over a two million square kilometer area, with hundreds of millions people placed in peril by the natural disaster.The Tangshan earthquake set a record as the world's strongest earthquake of the century. The people of Tangshan have set a new record for the rate of reconstruction accomplished over the past 20 years. The support of the People's Liberation Army and people across the nation combined with the unyielding efforts of survivors led to the establishment of a new Ta     

A Pitiable Devil,a Satanic Hero---On Heathcliff＆#39;s Character in Wuthering Heights

Emily Bronte is one of the most famous and outstanding novelists in English literature. In her only novel Wuthering Heights,Emily successfully depicts a very complex character - Heathcliff,who is the central figure of the whole story. He is regarded as a devil for his brutal behaviors of revenge. However, his ruthlessness on the surface cannot completely reflect the feeling of his interior world. As a matter of fact, he is only a solitary and pitiable man who lives a miserable life since he is born. Although he acts entirely like a devil in pursuing revenge, he still can be called a hero because of the good qualities hidden in the depth of his soul. Heathcliff is such a unique character in Wuthering Heights that it is always difficult for readers to comprehend his inner conflict and make an appropriate judgment for him. This thesis offers a detailed analysis of Heathcliff＆#39;s special character and gives a new interpretation for the complexity and profundity of human nature.     

Suliman and Waliya (a Salar folk story)

SULIMAN was a young Salar hunter who possessed a magic bow and knife. At the age of 25, he was eager to find a good wife. One day, at the foot of a mountain, he saved a skylark from the mouth of a water snake. When the skylark song thanks to Suliman, he saw a pretty girl in the river     

Threads of Youth Needlework Helps Woman Recall the Past

MAYBE I should be grateful to my mother. When I was very young, she taught me how to knit socks. Using a kind of white nylon thread and a needle made from a kind of hairpin, a durable sock could be made. Before long I had mastered the skill, then knit a pair of socks for each of my family members. However, my mother seemed to be a collector of socks and didn't allow me to stop knitting them until I came to hate this task. Luckily, my mother changed her interest. One day while she was     

Celadon Jar with Brown Dancing Figure

This celadon jar, 16.5 cm high, was produced by the Changsha Kiln during the Tang Dynasty. The Changsha Kiln, located on the bank of the Xiangjiang River, 60 kilometers north of Changsha, was the earliest producer of underglaze decoration. The development of underglaze enamel was a turning point in the history of China's ancient porcelain. It was a change from a monochromatic glaze to a polychromtic glaze, creating a porcelain blazing with     

Glass Bowl with Knobs

IN 1964, the tomb of Hua Fang was excavated at a construction site in Beijing's western suburbs. Hua Fang was the wife of Wang Jun, who was a prefectural governor of Youzhou (an ancient name for Beijing) during the Western Jin Dynasty. Found in the tomb were a bone ruler and a silver bell in good condition, as well as a packet of half-transparent pieces of glassware. The fragments were restored by experts in 1984 into a complete vessel, which is currently displayed in the Capital Museum.     

A Wine-Water Container

This exquisite bronze object is a combination wine container and water container. It was excavated from the tomb of Zeng Houyi, a prince of the State of Zeng. The upper part is a wine container, measuring 30. 1 cm tall and the lower part is a water or ice container, measuring 58 cm in diameter. The two parts resemble a     

The 21st Century Should Become the Women's Century——An Interview with Ms. Leticia Ramos Shahani, the Head of the Philippine Delegation

AT the end of the UN Fourth World Conference on Women, Leticia Ramos Shahani, a Senator of the Philippines, gave a speech on behalf of the Group of 77 and China. Ms. Shahani said this Conference proves one fact, that the fate of women has a great bearing On world development. She hopes the Platform for     

Time (print)

“Time” shows a feeling in a twinkling: life is like a poem or a song. it twinkles, undulates and unfolds to offer us beauty, optimism and warmth. Li Xiu. 51. a printmaker of the Yi nationality, is quite familiar with the life of the Yi people. She has produced many works about the Yi because she has lived in her native area of Yunnan Province for many years. Her prints display exquisite compositions, cool and simple colors that evoke a rich, modern flavor. Li graduated in 1968 from the Fine Arts Department of Guangxi Art College. Today she is a senior painter with the Yunnan Art Academy and a council member of the Chinese Artists Association. Story by LIU NAN     

Hongshan Goddess

The Hongshan cultural relics at Niuheliang, Liaoning Province is a large scale ruin where sacrifices used to be offered to the goddess and ancestors. It is composed of a goddess temple, a sacrificial altar and many stone graves. From the ruins of the goddess temple, a clay sculpture of a goddess head has been unearthed.     

Hairdressing Makes Her Happy

"I can't stand this any longer," said Yin Xiwen who was determined to do something of her own. One day in 1988, 17-year-old Yin resigned from her job and bid farewell to the stable work and welfare that she had enjoyed in a stateowned enterprise. Her bold action drew attention and caused many comments. "She's like a new-bom calf making little of a tiger. She hasn't even left a route of retreat for herself," people remarked. However, Yin Xiwen said, "I don't want to have a route of retreat. Only by doing this can I find a path of my own." At a corner in Dahongmen, in the southern suburb of Beijing, is the small Mingwu Hairdressing salon. The owner of this small business is Yin Xiwen. Several years ago I happened upon the     

Spiral Shell Collection

In 1988 Zheng Haigen, a seaman with the Towboat Company of the Shanghai Salvage Bureau, began collecting spiral shells. Today he has more than 600 in his collection. The most valuable are the rare parrot shell and a shell whose spirals wind counter-clockwise. In 1991 a miniature conch with a diameter of 0.31 millimeters that he found buried in tons of sand made the Guinness Book of World Records.     

Longing for the Green(woodblock)

Jiang Bibo loves to employ the image of rocks in her woodblocks. Her figurines often bear veins of the rocks, featuring an interweaving of strength and softness, a mixture of a humanized nature and naturized humans. In her woodblock Longing for the Green the artist expresses her call for an unpolluted nature. The Goddess of Nature looks sad because nothing is left of her green gown but a small bunch of grass in her hand.     

Bronze Elephant

A rare find among Shang Dynasty bronzes in China, this bronze elephant was unearthed in a hillside in Liling County, Hunan. It was probably buried by slave owners as a sacrifice to the mountains and lakes. The bronze elephant served as a wine vessel. Wine was poured into the large opening at the elephant's back, and was served through its trunk. It is 22.8 cm tall, 26.5 cm long and weighs 2.8 kg. The body of the vessel was carved with animal motifs. The front of the trunk, for example, is carved into the shape of a phoenix with a hooked beak. A tiger is crouched on the comb of the phoenix, and a snake curls out of its beak. The base of the trunk is decorated with another snake, with its head near the mouth of the elephant. The entire trunk is decorated with scales.     

Letters from Our American Readers

Thanks very much for your recent letter,in which was enclosed a copy of the Brief Introduction of Women of China. You can't imagine how excited I felt when I got that letter! I am a businessman. I bought some copies of Women of China from our local dealer and found them quite fine. Since China became a socialist country, Chinese     

English Language Teaching——Teaching Listening

Modern language teaching theory highly emphasizes the effect of"listening"on the learning and the use of language.The teaching of English listening isn’t only a teaching of language,also a training of ability.It isn’t only the main way of acquiring language information,but the base of improving other skills.Many Chinese students regard the listening test as the most difficult part of a whole test.So during the English teaching,it is vital important for teachers to master the skill of designing the listening activities.     

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.