Hong Kong Hero

ON April 14, 2010, an earthquake hit Yushu, Qinghai Province, in western China. Wong Fuk Wing, a volunteer who had come all the way from Hong Kong, died in the rescue effort. He was born in 1964 and for most of his life worked as a container truck driver. He started volunteering before he turned 20, and those who knew him called him the highly auspicious name ＂A Fu.＂     

Fred Engst: Memories of my father and mother

<正>Fred Engst, wearing a jacket and a camouflage baseball cap, sat across from me. A delicate Chairman Mao badge glowed light gold on his cap. His Chinese name, Heping — literally meaning peace — was given to him by Madame Soong Ching Ling. Engst, the eldest son of American agricultural experts Erwin Engst and Joan Hinton, was born in Beijing in 1952 and grew up at the Caotan Farm in Xi’an. In 1974, he went to the United States, where he worked for 15 years.     

In the Shadow of Mental Illness A flawed education system and changes to families are pushing young people over the precipice of sanity

Jun Cai from a village in central China's Hunan Province was a model student.A talented writer,he had dreamed of pursuing a career in writing since childhood.But his father,a doctor,hoped he would study medicine.When Jun was in his second year of high-school,his grandmother suffered a fatal stroke and Jun's father made him swear to enter medical school in front of his dying grandmother.     

Hoary Humor

One day as a magistrate's court was in session, someone in the crowd broke wind. The magistrate asked: "Who did that? Bring him here!" The bailiff answered: "But I can't." The Magistrate insisted. The bailiff returned with a stool wrapped in a piece of paper saying: "The offender     

Winter Wonderlands of Art

SOFT snowflakes drift down onto a narrow and traditional Chinese street already blanketed with snow, and dance around a painter busy catching the winter scene in watercolors. A curious crowd gathers around him and someone finally asks：     

On the Fast Track——Chinese young skeleton team sets groundbreaking goals for Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022

It’s been six years since Geng Wenqiang hopped from his long jump career into one in skeleton racing, the sport in which a person rides a small sled, known as a skeleton bobsled, plummeting head-first down a frozen track—while lying face down. His selection for China’s Skeleton Team in 2015 made him one of the earliest Chinese skeleton athletes.     

What's on TV?

正A look at the small screen’s 40-year reform and opening-up history Lin Xi,a 44-year football fan in Beijing,watched the FIFA World Cup for the fi rst time in 1978 on a TV set in a college classroom.Forty years ago,TVs were rare in most Chinese households.Lin remembered it was late at night when his father dragged him to a big classroom at Peking University.     

From Farmer To Lawyer

A poor country boy makes a national name for himself as a lawyer and even ventures overseas Born to a farming family in Hailun County, Heilongjiang Province, on November 8, 1948, Yue Cheng lived a hard life, but the innocence and kindness of the rural people had a profound influence in shaping his character. The rural life also left him with happy memories of his youthful days.     

Zhou Tiehai：It Is not Difficult to Make Art

正ZHOU Tiehai is an extraordinary facilitator and clever conceptual artist.Both of these traits have made him a successful contradiction in the contemporary Chinese art world of the past12 years.He has encouraged a younger generation of artists to think about new and unique approaches to identifying themselves.A graduate of the Shanghai College of Fine Arts in painting and design,     

A Cry for Help

Rescue of newborn trapped in sewer becomes clarion call for unwed mothers On the afternoon of May 25,the muffled cries of an infant echoed from the sewage drain of a public toilet on the fourth floor of a residential building in Pujiang County, east China’s Zhejiang Province.Police officers and firefighters jointly extracted the 2.3-kg newbom covered in sores and swiftly sent him to a local hospital.But how did he end up in the sewer? Who would abandon a baby boy in a toilet?Police identified the baby’s mother as a 22-year-old woman with the pseudonym Xiaofei who lived in a nearby apartment,but she was initially reluctant to admit     

Building a Nest of Love

Can an abandoned disabled child find a better place than an orphanage? Zhu Yamin, a deaf boy in Daxing District in Beijing, is blessed to beable to enjoy familial love though his ownparents deserted him. As a beneficiary of a fosterage program in Lixian Township of the district,Yamin is under the care of a locally known architecture painter, Lang Yindong, whose traditional-style color drawings on architectures are popular in the rural neighbor-hood. After Yamin came to his home,however, La…     

Caribbean Coast to Urban Jungle

<正>Architect, businessman and musician: the three faces of a Colombian Throughout two decades of living in China, Alvaro Royo has taken part in different endeavors, teaching him important lessons and earning him many successes. But above all, it has marked a 180 in life, alongside his family.     

Imperial Tea Connoisseurs

HAVING ruled for 60 years, in 1795 Qing emperor Qianlong decided it was time to abdicate in favor of his son. His ministers tried to dissuade him, saying: "A country cannot manage for a single day without its monarch." The emperor promptly retorted, raising his cup of tea, "A monarch cannot function for a single day without tea." Qianlong had several reasons for abdicating and mentioned tea only as a red her-     

First China-Canada Cultural Dialogue

Seventy years ago,a devoted foreign friend of China passed away in tragic circumstances,prompting Chairman Mao Zedong to write:I am deeply grieved over his death. Now we are all commemorating him, which shows how profoundly his spirit inspires everyone.We must all learn the spirit of absolute selflessness from him.With this spirit everyone can be very useful to the people.A man's a-     

Gazing Into the Abyss Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients live physically immobile but spiritually active lives

Although a 20-something,Miao Guwei lives like a baby.Every morning when he wakes up,he lies in bed quietly,waiting for his mother to pick him up,dress him,wash his face and then carry him around on her back. For more than a decade,Miao has livedwith a disease called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS),which has been encroaching on his nerve cells and progressively paralyzing him.Now,he can no longer stand,walk or move his arms freely.     

信息动态

Pseudoscience Fighter Fang Zhouzi,a popular science writer,has pledged to continue his efforts to expose academic scandals in China after being attacked and injured slightly. On August 29,Fang said,he was attacked by two unknown men in the street near his home at about 5:00 p.m. A man sprayed pungent liquid on his face and another man hit him in the middle of his body with a hammer.     

Impactful Impressions

正A real-time way to experience one war of resistance It was a short conversation that Jiang Tao read in 2011 that gave him the idea to record the history of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1931-45) from a different perspective.     

A State Compensation Case & Its Lessons

It was 7 o'clock on November 17, 2001. Chen Qinglong, a hired driver in Dongguan City, Guangdong Province, was driving his vehicle to the checkpoint at Changping town of the city. A security guard of the town's public security bureau blocked his way on the pretext that "his vehicle bumped into a security guard and injured him a few days ago." Then, a policeman from a sub-police station in Changping Town took Chen and his vehicle to the sub-police station.     

Rescue Mission Underway

<正>With a raft of supportive measures in place,will China’s stock market bottom out amid a continued plunge? Lin Hong,a 28-year-old software engineer,is an amateur stock trader living in Beijing.The three weeks from June 15 to July 3proved to be a nightmare for him.The market value of the stocks,worth half a million yuan($80,530)when he bought them,evaporated by 40 percent amid a market slump.     

Champa Trinley, Blind Massager

Champa Trinley was born of a peasant's family in Lhasa, capital of Tibet, in 1954. Healthy and lovely, the baby brought great joy to the family. But when he was six years old, a serious disease made him blind in both eyes. Despite seeing nothing, Champa learned to do farm work. Every day he worked in the fields like everyone else. Aside from completing what work was assigned him by the production team, he joined the local youth shock brigade and, as a member of the brigade, vied with oth-