男子汉——未曾间断的呼唤

Japanese actor Ken Takakura recently passed away. He was 83. With his cool demeanor and handsome looks, he became the idol of many Chinese during the late 1970s and early 1980s. In most of his fihns, he played a tough guy who had a tender heart. Such roles made many women think he was the perfect man.     

谁云女子不如男？

Bill Howard,a young American man who studies Chinese in Beijing,enjoys practicing his oral Chinese,Last month,he learned the word ＂哪里,＂and he remembered that it meant ＂where,＂ However,he failed to understand that it can sometimes be used to express modesty.     

词语趣谈(英文)

Through his years of teaching at a Beijing language center, Lin Li has come to believe teachers must be imaginative. He is often stunned by some of the strange questions asked by the foreign students, and after he comes to understand the questions, he does not know whether to laugh or cry. He is always happy to share his interesting experiences as a language teacher with his friends. Once, one of his students, from     

Foreigners Who Marry in China

Ayoung Frenchman hoped to have his wedding in China because he has loved Chinese culture since he was a child. The Golden Connection Tourist Company of China arranged a wedding in Beijing so that his dream could come true.     

After My Son Has Grown Up

A man should be grateful to his children. Without them; he cannot become a father. If he is not a father, he will not be a true and complete man. I was working in a factory when I became a father. At the time, a 50-year-old workshop deputy head often complained that his son wore his pants and recently took his new coat. Therefore, from head to toe,     

The Foolish King (A Folktale of the Uzbek Ethnic Nationality)

ONCE upon a time, there was a poor man who had himself a hut. Because he had little money he had the roof made of a thin layer of poor quality straw matting. One night a thief came. He mounted the roof to see if there was any chance of getting into the house. But the straw mats could not stand his weight and he went right through the roof and fell onto the poor man, who was sound asleep. The thief was annoyed, and went to the King first timing in the morning. "Your Majesty," he said to the King, "I am a thief who knows my job very well. But last night I couldn't steal anything. Instead, I broke my leg." The King sent for the poor man immediately. "It's true, your Majesty," said the poor man when he arrived. "Then you must be sent to the gallows," announced the King, and ordered the gallows to be readied at once. Seeing what a fool the King was, the poor man cried, "I'm innocent, Your Majesty. It is the hut-builder who is guilty, because he didn't build the roof strong enough."     

“芝麻开花节节高”(英文)

One day, Mike went to visit Wang Jing, one of his Chinese friends, and he took a pot with an asparagus fern. When they opened the door, Wang's family was amused by the sight-the plant blocked Mike's face. Gasping for breath, he said,     

Wishing to Marry a Virago

ONCE when I was with my friends we discussed how we could help our friend who teaches philosophy at a university and had just celebrated his 50th birthday. He is thin and shy, with long hair. His wife died more than two years ago and now he seems to have a hard time. We thought it would be a good idea to find a new wife for him.     

找不着北

Ian Thompson, 28, from the United States, has been living in Beijing for one and a half years. He teaches oral English classes in several primary schools. Fascinated by the beautiful, ancient city, and the warmhearted local people, he says he plans to live in Beijing for another three to five years. Thompson has taken a Chineselanguage course, but he is more interested in practicing spoken Chinese with his     

《海上传奇》

After having examined China＇s historic changes, through his films, in the past decade, Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke developed a growing interest in history. As a result, he visited Shanghai with his movie camera and traced the footsteps of Shanghai and its people who had stories about the city. The experience gave birth to his latest movie, I Wish I Knew.     

Shang Yang's Paintings

Shang yang is a highly representative painter in the contemporary Chinese oil painting circle. In the past few decades, his painting style has changed several times; he abandoned his successful original style and familiar subjects when he turned from realism to abstraction. In the two pieces shown here, the people of the Loess Plateau are depicted as existing as an integral whole with nature, mutually inside and outside of it. Beholden to some techniques from traditional Chinese painting Shang's     

郑人买履(英文)

To be like the man from Zheng who bought shoes. (To believe only in dogmas and ignore the objective reality). A man from the State of Zheng was going to the market to buy himself a pair of shoes.Before he left home, he measured his feet with a piece of string. He cut the sting to match the size of his foot. Then he got dressed and set off for the market. It was quite a long walk, and by the time he arrived, it was almost noon. He wasted no time in shopping for     

Deng Xiaoping's Three Marriages (Ⅱ)

IN February 1931, Deng Xiaoping returned to Shanghai after he had finished his work in Guangxi, where as a political commissar, within two years he organized the Seventh and Eighth Front Armies of the Chinese Workers-Peasants Red Army and set up     

Shanghai's Only Male Kindergarten Teacher Breaks Tradition

KINDERGARTEN, the cradle of golden childhood for most children, used to be a place where women traditionally presided. But today in Shanghai, a young man named Pan Haohan has broken into this field. He works with Soong Ching Ling Kindergarten, run by the Chinese Welfare Association. Seven years ago, when he was about to graduate from a normal school in physical education, there was a free career counseling discussion offered in a dormitory. When asked what he wanted to do after graduation, Pan declared he would like to work in a kindergarten,     

打折(英文)

Bert Dykes, an easygoing American student, has been studying Chinese in Beijing for several months. During his time in China, he has had some interesting experiences. When he heard that the commodities in the nearby supermarket were sold at discounts as the lunar New Year's Day approached, he asked Wang Jun, one of     

The Good Wife (a Kazakh folk story)

LONG, long ago, there lived a king who had a daughter who was both intelligent and beautiful. One day in the royal garden, the king saw a beautiful white swan hovering about and trumpeting. The princess said. "The white swan told me that a good wife can make a king out of a stupid man, while a lazy wife will change a diligenl hush,md into a lazy man." Irritated, the king said. "Let me see how you call turn a fool into a king!" And he ordered his men to drive the princess to the most remote     

Art Appreciation

During his teens, Li Shaozhou painted what he saw simply because he took pleasure in it Afler gradualing from high school, Li went to work in a rural area. After staying there for two years, he joined the army, where he decided to learn painting in order to depict his experiences Ho gat the chance to study at the Aris Academy of the Chinese People's Liberation Army majoring in Chinese     

Lotus Flowers

The lotus flower is a traditional subject for Chinese painters. Men of letters and painters depict it because although it grows from mud its blossoms are clean and charming, hence it has always been used to euphemize a man who keeps his noble mind even in unfavorable situations Young painter Xing Xiaolin features the lotus flowers again and     

尴尬的发明(英文)

As winter approached, the temperature dropped and many people caught colds. However, Joe Sanders, a young American man, who studied Chinese at the Beijing Language and Culture University, did not feel cold. Why? He had put on warm underclothes, which he had received as a     

Views on Middle Aged Couples

AWOMAN calls a women's hotline: "My husband and I have always been compatible. Now our son is almost 10 and my husband still wants to have sex! This makes me sick. I don't know what to do. Help me!" Another woman calls in tears: "My husband is an ordinary man and used to lead a normal life like anyone else. One day, he told me he would try something else to develop his career. I supported him. Finally, his efforts paid off. But soon after, he began having an affair. He didn't deny it but he said he wouldn't divorce me. Why did this happen to