Chairman Mao''''s Cigar Man

FAN Guorong, aged 84, is known in his hometown as "the Old Cigar Man." The moniker is a fitting one as he has spent most of his life making cigars. In his early teens, Fan served a three-year apprenticeship and became the youngest cigar maker of his time when he started his career in the late 1940s.     

Art and Money：Selling Out in Xiaozhou

XIAOZHOU Village on the southern outskirts of Guangzhou is a place of boundless opportunity - at least for Liu Jiusheng and Xie Guozheng. Liu opened his guqin （ancient zither） workshop in the village in 2007. He loves the guqin and is a skilled player. Once he bought an old one and disassembled it, finding its construction not as complicated as he had imagined. At that moment, he was struck by the impulse to make his own zithers of superb quality, and hired 26-year-old carpenter Xie to help him realize the dream.     

Chairman Mao＇s Cigar Man

FAN Guorong, aged 84,is known in his hometown as “the Old CigarMan.” The moniker isa fitting one as he has spent most of his life making cigars. In his early teens, Fan served a three-year apprenticeship and became the youngest cigar maker of his time when he started his career in the late 1940s.     

A Life of Dedication──David Crook

APPROPRIATELY, the memorial meeting for David Crook, writer, educator and old and devoted friend of China and her people, began with the singing of the "Internationale," as he himself had willed.For David, who died on November 1, 2000 at the age of 90, had lived most of his life, and most of the previous century, as a convinced Communist and internationalist. Born of middle-class British-Jewish parents in 1910, he began his political life in the 1930s when studying at Columbia Univers…     

关公故里的“唢呐王”

He began to learn the per-forming of Suona since he was nly 13-year-old because he loved he traditional folk art so much. He racticed all the year round never inding it was so cold in the win-er or so hot in the summer. Final- he won a successful place of his wn in the field of performance of uona. He could even perform to low a Souna as large as hree-meter-long and carried by our robust He began to learn the per-forming of Suona since he was only 13-year-old because he loved the traditional…     

Lu Xun at Home

正LU Xun(1881-1936)is widely considered as China’s greatest modern writer.Although he was a prolific essayist and translator,it is for his intense and often disturbing short stories that he is best known.In criticizing repressive social norms,he aimed for nothing less than the eradication of the nation’s spiritual ills.In the decades since his death editions of his works,translations and critical studies have surged,making Lu Xun an accessible writer in most major languages.But he can also be remembered through the homes in which he lived and worked.     

PEOPLE & POINTS

<正>NEW PRESIDENT OF PEKING UNIVERSITY Optical expert Gong Qihuang becomes the new president of Peking University(PKU).Born in Putian City,Fujian Province,Gong started working as a lecturer after getting his Ph.D. from PKU’s School of Physics in 1989. In 195,he became a professor. Before his new appointment as PKU’s president,he was its vice president and dean of its graduate school.     

PEOPLE & POINTS

正RISING STARChinese hurdler Xie Wenjun stunned a star-studded track by winning the men’s 110-meter hurdles with a personal best of13.23 seconds at the 2014 Diamond League Shanghai meet on May 18.He finished third in the last Shanghai meet in 2013.Xie,23,claimed his second International Association of Athletics Federations(IAAF)event title in less than a week when he     

If You Are Happy,I Am Happy Too

IN Beijing’s tourist-oriented Jiugulou Street, there is a flower vendor with a difference-he conducts his business dressed up as a clown. Originally from east China’s Shandong Province, Xiao Song is the proprietor of the Beijing Clown Flower Shop. In his nine years living in the Chinese capital, he has had several jobs, one of which was restaurant waiter.     

Tide of Change

Li Zhengde regards the Yangtze River as the highway of his youth.Born in a small town in south China's Hunan Province,Li grew up near the Zijiang River, a tributary of the Yangtze,and in 1976, boats were the major mode of transport there.In the 1990s,he had to take a year off from school due to illness and sailed to nearby Wuhan Province on his cousin's wooden junk,It was his first trip outside Hunan and the one-month sailing experience is etched indelibly in his mind.     

Coming Home

Xie Zhonggao,head of the Beijing office for AsiaVest Partners,had lived in the United States for 16 years before settling down in Beijing in 2004. Xie had felt like"going home."In the U.S.he was"amazed by the wide open market for Chinese consumer concepts,"and sensing an opportunity, he returned to China to invest in manufacturing and consumer product enterprises.Here he talks with Chinese Venture:about AsiaVest's business focus and vision as well as about the venture capital market in China as a whole.     

Eyes of the Dark

正Blind poet and singer Zhou Yunpeng gains fame after years of hardship With his long hair, sunglasses and gray jacket, Zhou Yunpeng looks like an artist. He's a familiar sight in pubs, live houses, theaters, market plazas, and university lecture halls, playing a guitar and singing his folk songs. As the last poet to take the stage at a poetry reciting event in Beijing on December 28, 2011, Zhou again sang his songs as     

Cleaning Up The Web China cracks down on pornographic and other unsavory content to protect young Internet surfers

正Xiao Mingli is a migrant worker in Beijing.In his spare time he likes to read books online.In April,however,Xiao discovered that he could not read anything he used to on Sina.com’s Reading Channel,as the channel was banned by the authorities for hosting pornographic content."It’s not surprising to see that be-cause it contained a lot of porn articles     

THIRTY YEARS OF PROGRESS

As an average citizen of ,China, I am so delighted to see the great changes that our country has experienced in recent years. The second photo from the left on the cover of the 2008 December issue reminds my father of his youth. In the 1980s he also took a photo on Tian＇anmen Square in Beijing. My father was dressed in the same way as the man in the photo. As he says, dressing in bell-bottomed jeans was very much the fashion then.     

Remembering A Reformer

正Commemorating China’s chief architect of reform and opening up inspires latest revisions As a teenager,Zhang Weiying,now a prominent economist and former Dean of the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University,thought he could be nothing more than a farmer like his illiterate parents.In an article written in memory of the year he was admitted to college,Zhang,born in 1959,noted that he spent the first 19 years of life in his hometown,a remote village in China’s northwest Shaanxi Province.As someone     

扎根基层书写公正的人民法官邓兴

On the bank of the Nujiang River,a Communist Party member has been working as a judge for over a decade.His painstaking effort has added gleam to the image of the Party and the authority of law.He is Deng Xing,vicepresident of Fugong People’s Court.On the first day Deng Xing began to work in the court back in April 1999,he was determined to be a good judge in a down-to-earth way.In his years＂on the bench,＂     

State of Disunion

U.S.President Donald Trump’s supremely confident State of the Union address on February 4,his third,was more campaign rtietoric as he seeks reelection.Trump officially announced his candidacy in Pennsylvania on March 10,2019,with the campaign slogan Keep America Great a modification of his first election slogan.In the same way,his 2020 election manifesto doesn’t have any major surprises,continuing and re-emphasizing his 2016 program.     

Triple Challenge

<正>Can South Korea’s new president press forward with an independent foreign policy to bring peace in the Korean Peninsula?South Korea’s newly elected President Moon Jae In said he would address the economy and unify a society divided by the corruption scandal of his impeached predecessor Park Geun Hye in his f irst presidential speech.Moon,64,was sworn in as the 19th     

Henore de Balzac, an Ever-Burning Torch

We are gathered here todayto commemorate the greatFrench writer Henore de Balzac.He was born on May 20, 1799and died on August 18, 1850. Itwill be the bicentenary of his birthin a month and the 150th anniver-sary of his death in a year.Balzac was a master of criti-cal realism. In the relatively shorttime of 50 years of his life, he leftus The Human Comedy, an ex-traordinary and exceptional real-istic literary work consisting of 94novels. Just as he had expected,     

Five Years of Breakthrough in China＇s Human Rights Cause

In his report to the 17th Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Hu Jintao noted that the five years since the previous CPC National Congress havewitnessed important progresses in China＇s reform and opening-up undertakings and in the national endeavor to build a society of relative prosperity in all respects. These five years, he said, has also seen a ＂sound development of （China＇s） human rights cause.＂ For the first time in its history, the CPC reviewed the development of the human rights cause as an important part of national development.