When One Is Over 40 Years Old

AN 80-year old woman, who was recovering from a bone injury, once told me that she would be traveling around the world for the rest of her life. Listening to her touching and admirable plan, I realized that the loss of one's ability to do a certain thing will cultivate a longing for that particular thing. This longing was also with me the year I became 40. At that time, I frequently thought back over all l had done during the past 40 years, I     

Remembering Tibet

I close my eyes. The children with whom I stayed with in Lhasa appear before me. In the pink world they smile. It is a strange feeling. I have been to Tibet twice. I remember how the Lhasa children would walk on the streets in Lhasa: when they spotted a man and a woman holding hands, they would sing, "You Are Late", a popular song of that time. "I had her in my heart a long time ago./Oh! She arrived before you." When the young couple turned around, the children would run away. Then they searched for another couple. What I most remember about Tibet is     

Daughter's Rebirth

YU Faqin was only a baby girl of eight months when her parents took her to the county hospital because she was suffering from a continuous high fever, purplish skin blotches, and had blood in her urine. The doctor could not ascertain the cause but he was certain that a blood transfusion would be necessary. After a 150cl blood transfusion from her father, Yu Faqin     

Back to China to Seek Her Roots——An American mother and Her Adopted Chinese Daughter

LULU went to a Chinese kindergarten in New York's China Town for the first time at the age of three, and when she returned home she had a serious question for her mother. "Mom, why don't I look like you?" The bewildered eyes of Lulu made blond Emily understand that from that day on, the girl she adopted from Anhui Province, China began to reappraise America and her American     

Mother's Lahe

IT seems to have become a kind of law of nature that the aged do not easily get accustomed to new situations. But my mother didn't relate to this law. Mother had lived in a small town in the frontier region for more than half a century. In the early 1950s she moved to Beijing. We were always worried that she would not become accustomed to urban life. But we never expected that she would live a vivid and dramatic life of her own free will. We lived in a lane in Dongsi, which is not long. It has a western-eastern exposure, situated between two streets. In     

Rural Women Fight for Their Right to Land

TONG Sufang never expected that she would lose her land ongetting married.Tong,27,was married in 1992 to a man inanother village.The couple moved to the city to find jobs,leavingtheir land to their parents.Earlier this year,when the village whereTong lived before her marriage distributed another round ofcontracted land,Tong was not listed as a candidate for a share ofthe village soil.The reason:Tong is married and does not live inthe village any more,although she has never moved hermembership to her husband’s village and is still legally a memberof the village of her childhood. The same thing happened to Hou Cunli,who moved to her     

Seven Leaves Yoga

Ye Na graduated from the School of Performing Arts, under Beijing Film Academy, in 2004. However, she opted not to become an actress： instead, she sought a career that would allow her to live a quiet life. At that time, she was interested in yoga, which she thought would be an ideal career for her. She studied Bikram yoga, at the 42 Degree Hot Yoga Club. for several months in 2004. Later that year, she turned down roles on several TV shows so she could become a yoga teacher. For the next nine years, she taught Bikram yoga in various yoga clubs.     

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     

Unending Love

FLIGHT CA 937 from Beijing touched down at London's Heathrow Airport at dusk, and I followed the queue of passengers through the custom gate. A tall blonde woman who appeared to be in her 50s lowered a plaque bearing my name and walked in my direction. She had immediately recognized me from a photograph I had sent to the Londonbased Women's Council the previous month. Hella Huber El-Droubie, a member of the Women's Council, would be my hostess and would become my "special     

选择就变成了现实(英文)

CHOOSE More Rice at Fudan University 为了不吃馒头,我选择了复旦 SUCCEED Born in Sichuan Province, I grew up a rice eater. In 1984 I had to choose which university I would attend. My mother thought I was good enough to get into Qinghua University or Beijing University, the two best in her mind. One of     

My Grandma and I

GRANDMA is an old house—an old tree that I grew up with. Although my grandmother is a typical rural woman with bound feet, she has a man's name—Liu Hongqing. Women from her era usually did not have their own names, but she has one and it sounds so good, because her family was rich when she was born. Her father ran a large dyehouse and all her uncles had businesses in Qingdao or Yantai. But Liu Hongqing's lot in life would be different. At the age of 16, the casting of a horoscope dictated that she marry a local blacksmith, Ni Runtai. From that point on, she lived in     

My Italian Friend—Where Are You?

Yu Xiuhui is a teacher with a vocational school in Dalian, During a visit to Beijing last summer, she befriended a young Italian woman. The brief encounter left Yu with a sweet memory,as well as a regret. So she came to us, hoping that Women of China could help her fulfill her wish—to convey the message of a young Chinese woman latent in her call...     

Sports Fever in Sangzhi

IT was Liu Hongyan's bright eyes and slim figure that initially caught the eye of Liu Yuheng, the coach of Sangzhi Sports School shooting team, when she was in middle school. There were other indications that she would make a good marksman, such as her quiet character—even the neatness of her penmanship. After making persuasive overtures to Hongyan's school and family, coach Liu Yuheng brought Hongyan to train at the Sangzhi Sports School.     

Inheritance Rights Under Chinese Law

FIFTY-five-year-old Li Xiuhua is a rural woman, whose husband died, leaving her two sons and a daughter, who had all been married. In the past several years, Li Xiuhua and her husband worked very hard and earned a considerable sum of money through pig and rabbit raising. Besides a new house worth 50,000 yuan, they also had a deposit of 100,000 yuan in the bank. After her husband's death, Li Xiuhua's parents-in-law told her that the new house and all the savings would belong to them and their grandchildren if Li     

Our Changing Lives

WHEN recalling her llfe of 20 years ago,a 45-year-old middle school teacher said the mostimpressive thing for her was a bicycle.“In 1978,I met my husband for the first time.He wanted to buy me anew bicycle to replace my worn one.However,at that time     

For Better Understanding——Beijing Women Visit Dakar

AFRICA. To me it is a mysterious and faraway land, where the climate is hot, where there is plenty of ivory, fruit, beautiful dresses and jewelry, and where one can hear the vigorous beating of drums. I had also heard that African women were very diligent. What would I see on my visit to Senegal?     

Translator's Golden Harvest

AS an undergraduate student, I was familiar with the name Zhao Luorui. She is a professor at Beijing University and a well-known translator. I remember her well. Before my interview, I was imagining how she would meet me, with a walking stick or supported by her family? However,     

新年新愿望(英文)

Yangchun Baixuepainter杨春白雪 小画家"I would have a pair of wings with which I would fly to all places of happiness. Even if I could not get the wings, I would have a greater imagination.In the crispy air in the early morning, I will hear the singing of nature. When it snows, I will see flowers of spring in full bloom. In the spring wind, I will fly like a bird. I believe deeply that apes would possibly still roam wild if they did not have an imagination.In the new year, the wings of my dreams will be even stronger."     

Having Xie Youyu With Us Again

XIE Youyu went to Antarctica in November, 1985. It was the second time that China sent a scientific expedition to the South Pole. On the eve of her Antarctic trip, my colleagues and I visited her. On behalf of all the staffers of Women of China, we presented her with a flag bearing the words "Bring Credit to Our Country" and asked her to plant the flag at the South Pole which expressed our concern for China's research in Antarctica, as well as our respect for Xie and her brave venture. Xie spent four months at the     

Memory Like A String of Pearls

WANG Mingzhen is a wellknown Chinese physicist. Recently the 91-year-old woman looked back over the profoundly affecting experiences of her life. A Series of Setbacks As soon as she graduated from Peking University in 1930, Wang Mingzhen received an offer of admission from the University of Michigan in the United States. Although the school offered her a four-year scholarship for her tuition, she was penniless and could not afford the steamer ticket. Unwilling to seek help from her friends and relatives, Wang sent a letter declining admission, using her mother's illness as an excuse. She could not know that this action would postpone