Women Want to Hold Up Half the Sky

OVER the last few years more and more people have shown a strong interest in Chinese women's issues. At the University of Oriental Studies of Naples, Italy, where I come from, many students and teachers are researching and writing about the transformations of women's position in Chinese society. The policy of reform and opening to the outside world sponsored by Deng Xiaoping in 1979 has brought many changes to the country, not only in the     

NEW ON THE SHELF

A Survivor of the Chinese Revolution Author: Zeng Zhi Published by Guangdong People's Publishing House (First edition in Chinese, December, 1999) Zeng Zhi, one of the revolutionaries in the earlier Chinese Revolution led by the Communist Party of China, began her glorious career when she was only sixteen. She has experienced many incredible historical events during the Chinese     

漫画：星期一症候群

During the group stage of an international volleyball tournament, the Chinese women＇s team beat the American women＇s team. After the game, the headline ＂中国队大胜美国队, Chinese Team Beats American Team＂ appeared in many newspapers.     

The Times are Changing Women's Employment

IN the mid- and late-1980s a debate was held in China concerning the issue of women's employment. It was a time when economic reform involved both the management and labor force of the country's state-rum enterprises. What the Chinese women in the workforce had experienced from the late 1980s to the early 1990s in many ways differed from our predictions about the debate. Perhaps we can make a closer analysis of the trend in Chinese women's employment by learning the differences. Both the employment rate and the population of Chinese women in urban and rural areas have steadily grown as the economy has developed. In 1982 the Chinese workforce was     

Moon Cakes, A Chinese Favorite

CHINA is a nation with many ethnic groups. Thus, there are many legends to explain the nation's many festivals. The largest and most striking of these festivals are the Spring Festival and Midautumn Festival. Anywhere Chinese people go, they will remember and celebrate these two festivals. The Mid-autumn Festival falls on the fifteenth day of the 8th lunar month. In this festival, Chinese people eat moon cakes, a baked food, with a flour crust around a dense filling. Coming in a great variety of flavors and styles, the moon cake carries a great deal of symbolic significance. The moon cake is round like the moon. "Round" is pronounced "yuan" in Chinese. This character is full of good meanings. When used in reference to a     

My Relations With India

Cheng Youshu was born in 1924. She worked for newspapers between 1946 and 1952. In 1953 she was transferred to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and worked twice at the Chinese Embassy to India and undertook work involving India, in particular many significant events involving the Sino-Indian frontier dispute. She has also worked with the Chinese permanent delegation to the United Nations and Chinese embassies to Denmark and Iceland.     

Chinese Women Farmers Hew Out A Path in Russia

I was told that many women farmers living on the Chinese border do business in Russia. What's more, the number of successful women in business was increasing year after year. In fact, in the Russian city of Ussuriysk, which is 53 kilometers away from Dongning County, China, the market has even given rise to a Chinese commodity town and two big warehouses devoted especially to wholesale Chinese commodities. An influential Chinese commodity-distribution center facing Russia's far east is forming. These facts pique my     

Deng Xiaoping in Our Hearts

AS Deng Xiaoping passed away in February, the Chinese people once again suffered of the grief of losing their leader. As a great man, Deng Xiaoping has left his name shining through the ages of Chinese history. As a renowned son of the Chinese people, Deng maintained close contact with the ordinary people. At the memorial, many leaders of the All China Women's Federation (ACWF) recalled Comrade Deng Xiaoping in their hearts.     

A Woman Headmaster of Hainan

ON February 22, 1995, the front pages of Chinese leading newspapers issued the selection results of Ten Outstanding Chinese Women. Han Yuling, headmaster of Haikou No.9 Primary School in Hainan, was one of the ten. That night, Han Yuling was restless. She thought she only did what she should, and yet she had gained so many honors including the national award for excellence in teaching, and one of the Ten National Outstanding Returned Overseas Chinese. She is included in such books as Dictionary of Contemporary Chinese Education     

留学中国趣闻(英文)

Anne Sterling, a young Australian woman, is studying at a Chinese-language school in Shanghai. During the two years she has lived in the large city, she has had many amusing experiences. As she could not speak Chinese well when she first arrived in Shanghai, she made many funny mistakes. However, what impressed her most was her experience on the longdistance bus to Sichuan Province, in South     

Ma Junren's Track Team Stuns the World

At the Fourth World Athletics Championships in Stuttgart, Germany, Chinese runners, most Ma Junren's, triumphed. They won the gold in the 1,500, gold and silver in the 10,000 and swept the 3,000. Twenty-four days later at the National Games in Beijing, Ma's team broke many world records.     

读者来信

Dear Women of China,
What a great list of Chinese proverbs in the Chinese language learning section of the December issue. I have been studying Chinese for a few years now, but I can never get enough of Chinese proverbs. After all, there are so many, and learning them can be really useful. Being able to find information like this in a magazine is a great added value. I look forward to seeing more in the future.     

超过21%的中国妇女自主创业(英文)

In recent years many Chinese women have started their ownbusinesses, playing an important role in the national economicconstruction. "Over 21 percent of Chinese women have started theirown businesses, which is close to the level of their male counterparts…     

来信

Dear Women of China,1 read on your website that villagers in East China's Jiangxi Province celebrated a harvest festival in September 2019.China has so many interesting festivals,and Chinese celebrate them with various activities.They are really interesting.Hathaway/India Dear Women of China,I think you have done a good job in introducing Chinese culture and women to the world.You have informative and in terest ing con tents in your magazine.I hope the layout design will be more vivid and creative in the future.     

Days in Pursuit of Glory

IN pursuit of he strength of itswhole nation.China nas called fortalent since the founding of NewChina in 1949.During he GenevaConference in 1954,Chinese PremierZhon Enlai signed an agreement onbehalf of China with the United Stateswhich allowed Chinese scientists livingin the United States to return to China.Like a magnetic stone,the agreementattracted countless patriotic Chinesescientists to return to their homeland.By the end of 1956,this group hadgrown to more than 1,800,many of     

Bronze Saddlery

A number of relics were unearthed when Chinese archaeologists discovered a group of graves in Liaoning Province in April, 1976. Dating back to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the tombs contained many bronze ornaments for saddles that featured such animals as frogs, snakes, tigers and rabbits.     

编者寄语

This February is very special to all Chinese around the world, because the Chinese Spring Festival falls on the 9th day of the month. This most important Chinese festival is a time for family reunions andcelebration for a coming lunar new year.At such a festive time of family reunion, we won't forget those families who've lost their dear family members in the deadly earthquakes and tsunamis which occurred last December, devastating the coastal areas of many Asian     

Western Fast Food Comes to China

IT'S common knowledge that the Chinese have opened many restaurants outside their own country. Now fast food from the West can be had in the big cities of China. Western fast-food restaurants dot the streets of Beijing. And the food is not the only thing that attracts people. "They are clean and well-lighted and decorated in bright colors," said one scholar in Beijing. "They are not like Chinese restaurants that are often decorated in heavy and solemn colors or use old furnishings." The American fast food giant McDonald's is one of the most visible     

How to Be Women Leaders?

CHEN Muhua, Vice Chairperson of the China National People's Congress Standing Committee and President of the All-China Women's Federation, once had this to say about Chinese women's situation in the high-ranking decision-making positions. Although a large number of women have become leaders in many fields, she said, most of them take deputy-level positions and in fields traditionally viewed as     

Edible Chrysanthemum

CHRYSANTHEMUM is a decorative plant of many varieties.Although it tastes bitter,chrysanthemum is nonetheless used in traditional Chinese medicine to relieve internal heat or fever.Perhaps because of the Chinese saying,"Prevention is better than a cure,"chrysanthemum has been used