Inspirational Role Models

Winners of the annual Touching China Award recognized for their good deeds She carries the medical kit on her back,and her husband carries her on his.For 20 years,the couple has crossed over towering mountains and winding rivers,in sunshine or moonlight,to deliver medical services to people inthe village.It’s just another day in the life of Zhou Yuehua,a     

Miao Women Discover Colourful Life through the Lens

As I raised the camera, Yang Jiaxiu was walking along a narrow, muddy mountain path in a virgin fir forest, carrying about 50 litres of water.Instead of running away, she stood to attention, arms akimbo, and giving me a serious smile. The giant wooden basket on her back almost made her fall as she tried to straighten her body. When she finally arrived at her house she twisted her     

Hill Dwellers Climb Cultural Mountain——Miao people record their identity and history in eco-museum

Instead of running away, she stood to attention with arms akimbo and gave a serious smile. The giant wooden basket on her back almost made her fall as she tried to straighten her body. When I raised the camera, Yang Jiaxiu was walking along a narrow, muddy mountain path in a virgin fir forest, carrying about 50 kilograms of water. She twisted her body to pour the water into a large tank when she finally arrived at her house. Then the Miao woman put down the     

Shanghai Revisited——The Retum of a N.Z. Friend Isobel Thompson

"While I was in Shanghailast week there were somany memorable events that my73 years of life felt so very spe-cial ," Isobel Easton Thompsontold a friend on her 2-day staythere before her month-long Chinatour's end. The story can be traced back47 vears when China was im-mersed in civil war. lsobel. a     

PEOPLE & POINTS

<正>CHINA’S EMILY DICKINSONyu Xiuhua,a disabled rural poet,was elected vice president of the writers association of her hometown,Zhongxiang,central China’s Hubei Province,in late January owing to the popularity of her poetry on the Internet.yu,39,was born in a small village of Zhongxiang.She suffers from cerebral palsy,caused by a lack of oxygen during her delivery.Known as China’s answer to U.S.poet Emily Dickinson     

DISTORTING HISTORY

正Shinzo Abe’s personal political ambitions endanger the region’s stability Yin Shuzhang,76,can never forget one winter night in 1943.It was the night when her family and a neighbor’s family stayed in a small cave close to her village on the coast of east China’s Shandong Province to hide from Japanese soldiers patrolling the area.She and     

Out of Bounds

Video of shackled woman draws attention to protection of women’s rights A video of a woman with an iron chain around her neck, confined to a hut in a village in Fengxian County, Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, has been making the online rounds since late January.The mentally ill woman was wearing light clothing and eating poor-quality food, and was found to have borne eight children. Many netizens have demanded a thorough investigation of the case.     

Heritage Boosts Income

When Yang Mei was unable to continue working as a construction worker after her back was severely hurt in an accident 10 years ago,she didn't expect a skill she had learnt as a kid to offer her another chance to earn a living.Yang,now 46,is leading a wax painting collective involving over 300 women in her hometown,Zhongying Village in Bijie,Guizhou Province in south west China.She is also running her own wax painting company.     

Drive Like a Girl

正How one tiny woman stands tall as a truck driver Zhang Lin,25,is from a village in the mountainous province of Yunnan,southwest China. She escaped from her first marriage,which she was forced into by her parents,due to domestic violence. Later on,she got married once again,this time for love; nevertheless,she had to leave this marriage,too,because her second husband could not accept her son from her first marriage.     

Making Laws in the Interests of the Disadvantaged

IN the eyes of her neighbors,this short,sturdy woman in herlater years is a reliably amiableperson.To her grandson,she isa good granny,as each time shegoes away on a business trip shebrings him back a present. On voicing complaints fromher constituents at meetings of theNational People’s Congress,how-ever,her persona is stern andimplacable.     

A Farm Approach

<正>Once obscure villages on Hainan Island are now blossoming into rural resorts,thanks to innovative planning and the InternetFor years,Jiang Meirong,a housewife in Wentoupo,a hamlet in Dalu,a town in Qionghai,south China’s Hainan Province,lived just off her land.Since the village has neither beaches nor rainforests—the two attractions that make Hainan,also a tropical island,a top tourist destination—it was shunned by tourists.Jiang’s only means of livelihood was to sell the things she grew at the nearby market,which brought her an     

An Unfortunate Patient''''s Good Luck——Story of a Rural Woman and a Pharmaceutical Company

Xi Jianying is unfortunate and fortunate at the same time. Now in her late 60s, the woman in Shandong Province, eastern China, has suffered an unknown pain in her head since young. She is fortunate in that for the past 20 years, a pharmaceutical company in Jinan, the provincial capital, has done everything it can to relieve her of the pain. Believe it or not, the Dongfeng (meaning East Wind) Pharmaceutical Factory has been producing a "miracle" medicine just for one patient, for Xi, who lives in a mountainous village on the suburbs of Tai'an City, in total disregard of the huge cost involved and the loss thus incurred.     

The Garden of Festival of Pure Brightness on the River-The ancient Disneyland in China

The annual chrysanthemum festival was held as scheduled in Kaifeng on October 28th, 1998. There was all in bloom and was full of tourists in this city that day.It was also the time to open the Garden of Festival of Pure Brightness on the River. Huge crowd of tourists seemed to be driven by a sort of great charm and moved into this fascinating place. All of them wanted to get the wonderful feeling that once they enter into this garden place, the place will take them back thousands of years in time.     

A Crafted Approach

正Intangible cultural heritage becomes a powerful tool for progress When she was 12,Cai Qun and her elder sister were sent out by their impoverished family from their village in southwest China’s Guizhou Province to earn a living.The two girls walked for more than 100km on tortuous mountains routes to reach provincial capital Guiyang,where they became     

CRADLE OF CHANGE

正A village looks back on its transformation after pioneering targeted poverty alleviation By Yuan YuanIt is hard to find any"old"photo of Yang Chaowen's village as people living there were too poor in the past to buy a camera.By old,Yang means the days before2000.Yang is from Shibadong a village in Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture in Hunan Province,central China,where the     

Making the Right Choice

<正>Party congress delegate elections seek the broadest representation Instead of working and living in a modern city, Yang Ning, who graduated from college in 2010, took a bold choice to return to her home village in Rongshui County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in south China.     

Not one less——Directed by Zhang Yimou, China, 1999,106 min.

In her village, she was the teacher... In the city, she discovered how much she still had to learn. At the Shuiquan Primary School,Teacher Gao has to be away from schoolfor a month to take care of his mother. Themayor of the village finds a substituteteacher, Wei Minzhi, to take over Gao'sclass. Seeing that Wei Minzhi is only thir-teen years old. Gao protests to the mayorthat such a young girl will not be able toteach students, who are of her own age oronly slightly younger. The mayor rep…     

Flower Affairs

A girl named Keyi who lived in Suzhou lost her mother when she was in her childhood, and since then on she and her father depended on each other to eke out a living. Poverty made her swear to work hard and hunger for success ever from young; she wanted to change the living conditions so as to let her father live a better life. In college, Keyi and her classmates once went to a Christmas party sponsored by a foreign company, in which she met an Englishman with who she had sex that night. Later, she found that she was pregnant and had abortion.     

Clinton’s China Legacy

A look back on the tenure of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as sheprepares to leave office Over the past four years as the top U.S.diplomat, Hillary Clinton has served her country in a variety of ways and forged a tenure that was full of firsts. Clinton has visited     

The Kindness of a Chinese Immigrant

ON September 10, 2002 Mary He was thirty thousand meters above the Pacific Ocean, en route from Vancouver to Beijing. But the Chinese capital was not her final destination. Chinese-born Mary He, who now lives in Canada, took a 4-hour connecting flight to Urumqi, and then another 2-hour flight to Kashi in western China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. She spent the third day of her journey on a coach, traveling for more than 10 hours across the Gobi desert to Hotan. There, she continued her 30-year search for a Uygur boy named Ircken.