Right on Schedule

正China continues to make life better after realizing its first centenary goal on time For Wang Xiuying, an 84-year-old retired railway worker in Changchun, Jilin Province, a xiaokang life means practicing morning tai chi in a park near her neighborhood and shopping around in the three supermarkets near her apartment.     

Virtuous Recycling

正Recycling used things becomes trendy and handy in China Wang Yewen, a 32-year-old company staff member, recently moved into a new apartment in Beijing. The moving process proved torture, as she had too much stuff she didn't even realize existed. Fortunately,     

The Special 'One'

One seemingly trivial issue has vexed Liu Wenyan for over 30 years. Liu only needs one shoe, but every time she goes shoe shopping she has to buy a pair. Growing up in Guizhou Province in southwest China, Liu lost one leg in a traffic accident at the age of 4. Now aged 37, she has spent over three decades searching for either a seller of single shoes, or some-one else with whom she can share the pair. Paralympic high jump star Gui Yuna, who is the same age as Liu, faces the same problem. Gui comes from Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and, at 7, also lost her leg in a car ac-cident. The accident didn't discourage her from pursuing her athletic passion and in 2007 she broke the high jump world record for women amputees at China's 2007 National Games for Persons With Disabilities. One year later, she acted as a torchbearer for the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games. Despite her success, Gui is still bothered by the shoe problem.     

Cyberpunk Explosion

正Amazing Museum, an annual activity hosted by Guokr, China's leading popular science website, opened to the public in Beijing on September 29. This time around, the event took place at a shopping mall so that more people would be able to catch a glimpse of scientific lure.This year, the theme was Cyberpunk Explosion. With a transboundary interaction framework that combined popular science and art, the exhibition gave visitors the opportunity to indulge in a full-on immersive experience.     

电子商务中消费者权益保护现状的研究

随着互联网的广泛应用,通过互联网购物越来越成为人们日常消费者的一种重要途径,尤其是今年来各大网站推出网络购物优惠促销活动,使得越来越多的消费者选择网络消费者购物;电子商务确实给我们生活带来许多的便捷,但是电子商务于实际生活消费者存在差异,导致消费者权益更易遭受损害;因此,要更加注重电子商务中消费者权益的保护。     

Can She Say No to Zhang Ailing? Detail,idealism and woman in Wang Anyi's fiction

This article is a study of aesthetic idealism that characterizes the fictional works written by the contemporary Chinese writer Wang Anyi during the 1990s. I start with a comparison of Wang Anyi with Zhang Ailing, arguing that Wang's ambivalence towards Zhang's aesthetics of details is translated into a dilemma the former faces in her own writing. On the one hand, Wang Anyi appreciates Zhang's passion for life's details. Wang's own works show a high penchant for details. On the other hand, Wang is critical of Zhang's aesthetic leap from the sensuous (detail) to the nihilistic (meaning). Wang's anxiety over the ultimate value of detail can be attributed to her ideological allegiance to a May Fourth leftist tradition as well as to her awareness of the derogatory association of detail with women's writing in China. So in what way can Wang Anyi say no to Zhang Ailing? How does she try to steer clear of the danger of ‘materialistic’ trivialization that she sees lurking in details? I observe that in Wang's fiction there is neither a full embrace of idealism nor a total rejection of detailed realism à la Zhang Ailing. Instead, Wang Anyi treasures the use of details as a signifying practice to embrace her idealism.

In her 1990s' fictional works, Wang Anyi's effort to circumvent the dichotomy between detail and idea is complicated by her attempt to use details to reconstruct pictures of the past. There are several aspects to this issue. First, although nostalgic details in Wang Anyi's ‘memory stories’ help to give expression to idealistic longings of the author, they also tend to conspire with the official ban on the discourse of the traumatic socialist past. Second, while details are regarded as important in sum total, they are actually relegated by the writer to a secondary place as mere constructing materials to serve the function of bringing out the larger idea. In terms of actual narration, the highly ‘authoritative’ voice often suppresses the depth of individual subjects in her fiction. Third, Wang's ambiguity with regards to details and ‘feminine materials’ affects her characterization of women. A reading of Wang's two fictional works, The Song of Everlasting Sorrow (Changhen ge) and Fu Ping (Fu Ping), demonstrates that the writer's instrumental approach tends to render female characters stranded between allegorical figures and individual subjects.     

MARKET WATCH

U.S.Treasuries Shed China trimmed its holdings of U.S.Treasury securities in June to ＄843.7 billion,according to the U.S.Department of the Treasury.     

The Heavenly Palace

Wang Yaping became China's first female spacewalker on November 7, when she took part in the Shenzhou-13 mission's first extravehicular activi-ties (EVAs), alongside mission commander Zhai Zhigang. The event was the third extravehicular mission conducted during the construction of the country's space station Tiangong, or Heavenly Palace. The Shenzhou-13 spaceship was launched on October 16, sending three astronauts on a six-month in-orbit mission to construct the space station.     

MARKET WATCH

Price hikes in cooking oil fuel worries over inflation and the dominance of foreign gurus over the country's grain markets. With an explosion of box office successes, leading Chinese movie studios gear up for share floats to support expansion. Exports in November showed signs of bottoming out as the sector prepares for a more prosperous year in 2010. Despite its reputation as a nation of savers, China's online consumption is burning hot as consumers enjoy the comfort of shopping from home. The aviation indu...     

TRACKING UFOS

Recently,reports of Unidentified Flying Objects(UFO)have been occurring frequently in China.On July 7 this year,more than 20flights were postponed at Xiaoshan International Airport in Hangzhou,Zhejiang Province,because of a sighting.     

Hope Springs Eternal

During the Double 11 online shopping festival season, Liu Lu, a 28-year-old res-taurant owner in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, "purchased" something rather special on Taobao, one of China's leading online shopping platforms. With 66 yuan ($10.32), he made a dona-tion to the online store of the China Children and Teenagers' Fund (CCTF), which will be used to buy stationery, sports goods, musical instruments and other things for children in need, such as those who suffered accidents, or those living in remote rural areas whose parents work in large cities—the left-behind children.     

The Art of Living

At the age of 66, Wang Jie is learning a new skill—papercutting. Every Monday and Thursday afternoon, she attends a class in her neighborhood in Beijing's suburban district of Changping, with her toolkit. The kit, once a medicine box, now holds two pairs of scissors, a paper cutter, a pair of glasses, pencils, a big eraser and a roll of tape, all necessary for her lesson.     

Revisiting the Silk Road

During the winter of 2010-11,50 accomplished Chinese painters set out on the Silk Road, using their brushes to un-cover scenes along the long distance of the ancient road.Wang Shengli, President of the Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts, and one of the planners of this event, discussed the interesting activity with Beijing Review reporter Zhou Xiaoyan in an exclusive interview.     

MESSAGES FROM A TIME-HONORED TRIP

State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi's recent visit to five African countries continued the diplomatic tradition passed down for 31 years that China's top diplomat starts his first trip abroad in a year with an African destination.This not only demonstrates the friendship between the two sides but also reflects the important position of Africa in China's diplomacy.     

The Truth Must Be Told

IN 1943, Li Shuxian was driven out of her home in Changchun City, Jilin Province in northeast China by Japanese soldiers and as a result had a miscarriage that deprived her of the ability to bear another child. Two years later, she adopted a 3-year-old Japanese orphan, and renamed her Xu Guilan. Says Li Shuxian, "I had mixed feelings at first. What decided me was knowing that Xu Guilan would die if I didn't adopt her, so I overcame my hatred of the Japanese and raised her as my own." Now 81, Li Shuxian     

STRENGTH ON SNOW

Latin American and Caribbean countries aren’t letting heat get in the way of ice cold success ‘It feels great to be back here and be part of the history," Jaqueline Mour■o, a flagbearer for Team Brazil at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics opening ceremony, said.     

网购合同协议管辖条款纷争化解路径探析——从优化营商环境之诉源治理视角

在电子商务迅速发展的今天,格式合同因其简单、快捷的特点得以广泛适用。与此同时,格式合同中有关协议管辖条款的效力争议问题在逐年增多,且相应的司法裁判尚未统一。因此,有必要寻求消费公益诉讼与协议管辖格式条款争端问题的契合点,推动消费公益诉讼制度在该问题上的广泛应用。在引入该制度的过程中,需适当增加消费公益诉讼程序启动的法定主体,推行格式条款协议管辖的“黑名单”制度,并对格式条款公益诉讼的溯及力规范予以重构,从而化解网络购物合同之协议管辖权分歧,实现经营者与消费者的良性互动。     

Fine-Tuning Fandom

It is the ninth year Ni Pei is following everything about musician and actor Zhang Yixing (Lay). The idol debuted in 2012 in the Republic of Korea (ROK) as one of the Chinese members of male K-pop sensation EXO-M. At the time, Ni was a sophomore at a college in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. "He goes to extreme lengths when it comes to his work," Ni told Beijing Review, adding it is the meticulous atti-tude and ambition he reveals that she finds most attractive.     

Lesson 5 Online Shopping

Conversation 卡洛琳：珍妮，我想买一伯连衣裙，去哪个商场好呢？ Kaluolin：Zhenni,wo xiang mai yijian lianyiqun,qu nage shangchang hao ne？ 珍妮：我一般都在网上购物，非常方便。 Zhenni：Wo yiban douzai wangshang gouwu,feichang fangbian. 卡洛琳：网上购物应该怎么操作呢？ Kaluolin：Wangshang gouwu yinggai zenme caozuo ne？     

CRISIS FOCUS—Worst-case Scenario

Caught up in the whirlwind of the global fi-nancial crisis since last October, governments worldwide have rushed to adapt to the drastic economic changes that have occurred both in their own countries and internationally. Anticipating that this year may witness heavier storms, Wang Jian, Secretary General of the China Society of Macroeconomics under the National Development and Reform Commission, warned about some trends in China's macro-control efforts in 2009. Edited excerpts of his interview with China S...