LETTERS

I have just come back from Shanghai where I visited the World Expo. It was a very enjoyable experience. I picked up a copy of China Today featuring the Shanghai Expo on the cover from a hotel where I was staying. As I was reading I came across, in the Editorial section,     

On a Mission for Homeless Children

I had a loveless childhood. I didn’t have loving parents. I didn’t know how to care about others and I didn’t even really know what love was. I always complained, thinking everyone owed me something, and I blamed life for not giving me what other children had. Not until I came to the Guang’ai Family did I truly discover love, thanks to my teachers and classmates.     

Xinjiang People： A Local Photographer＇s Portfolio

I was born and brought up in Xinjiang, and my Iongtime friends often warn me, a photographer, not to take pictures in dangerous places. As a matter of fact I have received many such phone calls in recent years. Each time I finish the call, I become lost in thought. Scenes of experiences in past decades, together with those photos, materialize before my eyes. I decide I will, with my camera and my utmost good faith, continue to record the land and its people that I dearly love.     

Adapting to China

正People in Beijing,especially Chinese,often say they feel mystified when meeting me for the first time.I look Indian,but I speak fluent Chinese, and I come from Sudan. I am here because I love languages and I wanted to learn Chinese.But,I am also here because Arabic,the language I speak back at home in Khartoum,is becoming increasingly important in China.When I was a mass communications student at the University of Khartoum,I wanted     

A New Zealand Family in Nanjing

My family and I were invited to Nanjing inorder that I be resident at the printing facility.MY wife Jane and I, and our four children Michelle, Melinda, Niki and Shane, have been living in Nanjing for close to 15 years. I made my first visit to Nanjing in 1992, when I assisted the Amity Printing Company. I felt immediately that I liked Nanjing and its people. My family and I were invited back to Nanjing in order that I be resident at the printing facility. We have been living in Nanjing since May 1993, at which time we had two children. Within two years, however, we doubled our offspring when twins Niki and Shane arrived!     

LETTERS

Ihappened to read an edition of your journal published in2008 at the home of a friend of mine in Mexico.I found the report on the Beijing Olympic Games so interesting that I kept on reading your magazines from then on.I have since amassed a large collection.I enjoy their high quality content,and appreciate the design.I am looking forward to reading more interesting stories about what is happening in China.I wonder whether it would be     

Zhejiang, My Second Home

EACH time I left Zhejiang, I hoped that I could return as quicklyas possible. During the past four years, I have left and returned again and again. It seems to me that Zhejiang is my second home. Four years ago, when I first arrived in Zhejiang I never expected to stay here for long. I didn't like its     

Macao and Beijing on the Sly A European＇s Impressions ol His First Visit to China

I recently made a trip to China.Though I only had time to visit three places-Hong Kong, Macao and Beijing-the country made a deep impression on me.For one, it was nothing like I expected. I had arrived with a backpack and a good camera, hoping to capture some snapshots of traditional life in Chinese streets. But at the same time I suspected that the old ways had disappeared to make way for grand buildings and other symbols of newfound wealth. I     

Lesson 3: How Much Altogether

Wang Jiaming goes shopping. 店员:您好,您买什么? Salesclerk:Hello.What can I do for you? 家明:我买一盒牛奶、一瓶果酱、三块黄油 和两个面包。 Jiaming:I want a carton of milk,a jar of jam, three pieces of butter and two loaves of bread. 店员:还要别的东西吗? Salesclerk:Anything else? 家明:还要一包口香糖。一共多少钱? Jiaming:Yes,I also want a pack of chewing gum. How much altogether? 店员:一共十二元。 Salesclerk:Twelve yuan in all. 店员:这是一百元,找您八十八元。 Salesclerk:You gave me 100 yuan…     

My China Week

I can't believe that I just spent10 days in China.I had to keeptelling myself. "I am in China,CHINA." It was sounreal.So faraway from home, so differentfrom anything I was accustomedto. yet we are all alike, all part ofthe human family. Though wemay look different. We all come     

A 49-Year-Old Chinese Woman＇s Round-the-World Tour

Icouldn＇t stop traveling once I statred.Wherever I went,I had completely different feelings as I experienced each place,     

A 49-Year-Old Chinese Woman’s Round-the-World Tour

I couldn’t stop traveling once I started. Wherever I went, I had completely different feelings as I experienced each place," says Ma Li. In 19 years, Ma has traveled through an     

LETTERS

When I told some colleagues at lunchthat I was going to learn Kunqu Operaa form of performance art harking back tothe 14th century, older than Peking Opera, Ireceived stares as if I was off to live with thedinosaurs.I definitely wouldn’t have gottensuch a reaction if I had said I had enrolledin a piano class.Here, in a nation boasting     

Bargaining in Beijing

Onmyfirsttrip to a Beijing market, my intentions were clear. I needed a cheap watch. Nothing fancy, just a wristwatch. And, maybe, I thought to myself, I would look at some shoes I could wear to work.     

The Past of Old Beijing City

These paintings are my emotional recall of the Old Beijing City. which hasbeen capitals of six China Dynasties. Every time when I am in the modern bustleBeijing. I can't help feeling the primitive simplicity from Hutong and the yard aswell as imaging the Old Beijing. Therefore. I have painted this group of paintings totrace back that past Old Beijing. I have never been there. I do have been there.     

Brought up in Beijing

<正>I think I have the best of two worlds.I was born in Bangladesh,and I grew up in China,the land of Confucius and my second home.The earliest and most prominent memories of my life are from China,and Chinese is a language I have spoken since childhood.When I was just over 2 years old,my parents and I moved to Beijing.My father received an invitation from China Radio International to work     

Group Buying on the Upsurge

正LAST month I was invited out for a Korean barbecue by a 23-year-old Chinese friend of mine,Huang Xuesong.I gladly accepted the invitation and we had dinner together.After a good meal,it was time to pay the bill.As I rummaged in my bag for my purse,my friend stopped me:"No,it’s okay.I’ve already paid over the Internet,"he said.I won-     

Does China Have Freedom of Religion?

Two years ago,I traveled with some foreign journalists.One of them asked whether I had any religious belief."I am an atheist,"I said.His facial expression revealed that my reply had reinforced a preconceived opinion of his.He then asked,"It is said there is no religious freedom in China.What do you think?"     

ANINDISPENSABLE PART OF LIFE

<正>A Chinese woman's experience of using WeChat overseas By Lu AnqiWhile many of my friends in China revel in the convenience that the social networking platform WeChat has brought them,Chinese living outside China like me are also grateful forthe positive changes this homegrown application has brought to our personal and professional lives.It helps families,relatives and friends stay closer,making keeping in touch simple and trouble-free.I didn't use WeChat until I came to live and work in South Africa in 2013.Before then,I didn't yet have a smartphone,though I did have Internet access.With my computers at home and work having MSN,Skype and QQ messengers,I was well linked with relatives and friends no matter where they-or I-were.When I arrived in South Africa,I bought a smart phone and WeChat was one of the first apps I downloaded.I was happy to find I could add all my QQ and phone contacts to my new WeChat account.I contacted other friends who were not yet using the app to join me.After that,every morning when I launched WeChat,I     

A Village in the Clouds

I’d read and heard so much about the miracle of poverty reduction in China that I had to go see it myself firsthand. That opportunity arrived when I went on an excursion to Dawan Village in Anhui Province, east China. I knew very little about the place. All I knew was that it sat 1,500 meters above sea level,and that President Xi Jinping visited it in 2016.