田义墓——宦官文化陈列馆(英文)

Tianyi Cemetery lies in the western part of Moshikou in Beijing's Shijingshan District, is the first and also the onlymuseum in China that commemorates the place of eunuchs in Chinese culture.Built in 1605, during the Wanli Period of Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) as the graveyard of a high-ranking eunuch named Tianyi, it was comprised of Xiande Ancestral Hall,     

Activities for Older People

Along with the improvement of the standard of living and medical care the lifespan of people in China has increased greatly in the 1990s. There are more older people living in Shanghai, Beijing and Tianjin than in the rest of the country. The government and     

Children''''s Good Fortune—After the Implementation of the Law of Adoption

On December 29 of 1991, the first law of adoption of China was passed at the 23rd session of the seventh National People's Congress, and was put into effect from April 1, 1992. (Please see our coverage on the revision of the law in 1998 in the third issue of last year.) With the guarantee of law in adoption, the number of     

Four Families Characterized by Culture

in recent years, such characteristic families as the family of Beijing opera, the family of calligraphy and the family of paper-cutting have emerged in the Beixinqiao Neighborhood of Dongcheng District, in Beijing.     

香魂女(1993)(英文)

Director:Xie Fei Cast:Siqin Gaowa Wu Yujuan,Le LuoSheng,Chen Baoguo and Jing Lei "Women from the Lake of Scented Souls" is about the lives of two women, in a Chinese village,in the 1990s.The film records the changes that occur in China during a period of social transition,in addition to the more subtle transformation in the psyches of the women.     

Tibet Buddhist Festival

IN the second week of the firstmonth of every lunar year in theTibetan Autonomous Prefecture ofSouthern Gansu Province, an importantreligious festival takes place. It is theannual displaying of Buddha's imageheld in one of the six renownedmonasteries of the Gelu (YellowReligion) School of Tibetan Buddhism.Here, in the Labrang Monastery, itmarks the gathering of many Tibetan     

BEIJING DECLARATION——Approved on September 15th by the 1995 UN FWCW

THE following is the full text of the Beijing Declaration: 1. We, the Governments, participating in the Fourth World Conference on Women, 2. Gathered here in Beijing, in September 1995, the year of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the United Nations,     

Dazzling Sixth Ethnic Games

WITH its first round in Lhasa, Tibet, the Beijing leg of the Sixth National Games for Traditional Sports of Minority Nationalities was China's largest sports ceremony at the end of this century. The reason for holding the games in two places for the first time is that the 50th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China and the 40th anniversary of democratic reform in the     

让大家想来村里当农民

S houan,a town in Chengdu,capital of Southwest China's Sichuan Province,is the largest osmanthus-production base in Southwestern China.Due largely to the saturated market,the traditional seedling industry,which used to be one of the pillar industries of Minjiang(a village in Shouan),has suffered from"severe winter"-the depressed market resulted in the stagnation of the seedling trade-during the past decade.     

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