The Chinese Language - a New Craze

MARIE is a tour guid from France's Cote d'Azure. She didn' waste a minute of her 20-day tour ofChina. In addition to the usual sight- seeing and eating out in restaurants, she and her companions also attended an intensive Chinese training course. Marie wants to be a Chinese tour guide in her native land. She reckons that as France attracts more and more Chinese students, knowing the language will get her a better job. The current "Chinese language craze" was not inspired simply by the co…     

How Tough Is the Job Market？

THIS year is set to be the most competitive ever for employ- ment-seeking college gradu- ates. Nearly seven million will pour into China＇s job market, the highest number ever in the history of the People＇s Republic. Like the increasingly alarming air quality, this year＇s tough job market is a frequent topic and source of frustration.     

On Chinese Media

正Southern Metropolis Weekly Issue No.27,published on July 28,2014Love It or Hate It,English Language Is Inescapable The popularity of English language learning has opened a new window for the Chinese,and advanced their integration with peoples of the world.The ability to speak and read English has changed many Chinese people’s fate.Meanwhile,English has become a staple on Chinese school curricula and is a main feature of the job market.Love it or hate it,therefore,English language learning in China is inescapable.     

JOB INFORMATION

1. Questionnaire By Beijing Review and Chinajob.com Thanks for your close attention to our column. We very much appreciate your feedback, on which we depend to offer you the information you need and make this page valuable reading! 1. What are your usual channels for seeking jobs in China? 2. Do you prefer a full-time job or part-time job? 3. What is your preferred job: language teacher, professional in a company or manager?     

The Most Stunning Traditional Chinese Ethnic Sports Event

In the Chinese language, ＂climbing up a mountain of daggers and diving into a sea of flames＂ is a metaphor for doing something that is incredibly dangerous. For people of the Lisu ethnic group in southwest China＇s Yunnan Province, however, this is no literary expression, but something they can do for real. They even have a special festival, the Daogan Festival （literally meaning ＂the Blade and Fire Day＂）, to display this extraordinary skill.     

Government Buys Jobs For Laid-off Workers

Lu Yun rejoices that she did not hesitate to take the job as a community patrol a year ago. "Had I refused to take up the job, there would have been no opportunity at all to find a job now," she said. In 2001, the Dalian city government bought a number of jobs of public welfare in nature, including patrols in communities. However, many people were reluctant to take them at the time, leaving several hundred vacancies. Lu Yun, 48, was laid off by the Dalian Department Store four years ago. She applied and was given the job. Although the monthly salary is only 400 yuan, she took to like it. "I can enjoy old-age insurance and medical insurance,"     

Powering Their World

Four years ago,Dong Latthavongsa was a struggling vegetable grower in Vientiane,capital of Laos,trying to make ends meet after her divorce.Looking for a stable job,she heard that a Chinese company was building a railway line in Kasi,where she lives.It was Sinohydro Bureau 14 Co.,whose parent company Power Construction Corp.of China(Power China)is a state-owned enterprise and a leading player in the energy industry.     

学生对大学英语课堂语码转换的期望调查研究(英文)

Code-switching in the English as a foreign language(EFL) classroom is a disputable subject in the academic area. There are two main schools of thought toward English-Chinese code-switching. One holds an opinion that the code switching as a barrier for the first language may produce interference and negative transfer, while another argues code-switching as a facilitator for the first language may provide the most effective meanings of learning. The focus of the argument is to use or not use the mother tongue. In this paper, an attempt has been made to investigate whether it is necessary to use code-switching in the college English class from the perspective of English learners. By doing so, a questionnaire has been made to reveal the expectations of students with different English proficiency toward code-switching. And then the paper has provided suggestions on the way of using appropriate code-switching strategies in class to facilitate EFL learning.     

Graduate Grind

<正>A record number of college alumni are searching for jobs this year Zhu Chengxin is going to graduate from a university in Hunan Province this year,but despite passing the firstround interview with a foreign company in Shanghai prior to the Spring Festival in February,he still hasn’t been called for a second interview due to the city’s COVID-19 resurgence.Zhu is not the only graduating student to have difficulties finding a job this year.     

Balancing Paychecks Wealth disparities provoke calls for income distribution reform

Thirty-year-old Ye Lei had worked in a state-owned factory in her hometown Jiangxi Province for seven years. Although she had been promoted to the position of the department head, she quit her job last month to work as a sales representative in a marketing company in Beijing.     

The Changing World of Social Work

WEARING a ponytail, 29-year-old Wang Qi has an infectious smile and a bright, capable look about her. In spite of her youth, she is director of the Donggaodi Community service station in Beijing’s Fengtai District. In the three years that she has dedicated herself to community-based social work, Wang admits that she has had to learn a lot on the job. The residents in the community highly appreciate her efforts.     

Conserving Lusheng Cadences

PAIKA is a rural community of the Miao ethnic minority in hilly Guizhou Province.In the local language this name refers to a mountain village that produces the Lusheng,a reed instrument.This village of about 100 households has been known around the province for its Lusheng production for the past five generations or so.Mo Yanxue,62,is from a Lusheng producing family in Paika.He started to     

论心理语言学对英语教师教学实践的影响(英文)

Psycholinguistics is a newly developed discipline at present.It is helpful for experts to study how knowledge of language is represented in the mind/brain of a fluent speaker/hearer,how this information is utilized in the comprehension and production of expressions,and how speakers/hearers acquire these abilities.Since psycholinguistics is playing a vital role in research on language,it also has a great influence on foreign language teaching.English teachers could use theory of psycholinguistics to guide their teaching.This thesis aims to discuss functions of psycholinguistics on English teaching through four types of English curriculums(listening,speaking,reading and writing).     

Ancestor Worship among the Yi People of MeiguText and Photos by Saguqure and Emuerpo

正Winter is a slack season in farming and is a good time for the Yi people of Meigu County in.Liangshan Mountain,Sichuan Province,to hold their"Ni Mu Cuo Bi(尼木措毕)"ritual,a ceremony of ancestor worship."Ni Mu Cuo Bi"in Yi language means to worship ancestors.It is one of the grandest and most important ceremonies for the Yi people in this mountain area.     

A Job in Hand

<正>As China's college graduates swarm to all kinds of employment fairs in this job-seeking season,the government is set to give them a leg up.A guideline on employment promotion recently released by the State Council,China's cabinet,lays out measures for creating diversified job opportunities for college graduates.The document also details steps to be taken to boost job creation in all sectors of society.     

Hemragul: Singer Pursuing Her Dream

正In July 2013,Hemragul Abduqadir graduated from China Conservatory of Music with a Master’s Degree in Vocal Music Performance.Though Hemragul,a Uighur from Xinjiang,is not the first ethnic minority student to study in this college,she is the first to graduate with this advanced degree.With a lifelong passion for musical art,H emragul has showed great     

China By Design Amy Gendler

EMPATHY,＂ Amy Gendler said to her mostly American companions in a social group one Sunday this spring, ＂represents one of the most significant developmental challenges my Chinese design students face. Being able to put yourself in another person＇s shoes is key to being a good designer.＂ Of the social import of the students＇ success, she is also clear, ＂It is imperative that China thinks about design in a new way.＂ By that she means embrace strategic, research-based, problem-solving approaches, because ＂Design is not about making beautiful things; it may not even be about things. It＇s about strategic solutions for sustainability. China needs to think of it this way, and this way now.＂     

Lighting up the Darkness

SABRIYE Tenberken is a household name in Lhasa,the capital of Tibet Autonomous Region where she founded a school for the blind 13 years ago. Her reputation spread to the rest of the nation in 2009,when she was elected one of the "ten most inspiring people in China" for that year.     

Local Legislation Giving Single Women Birth Right Caught in Debate

Chen Yifan, who is resolved to be single for life, has never expected that at 45, she can realize her dream of producing a baby for herself without having to get married—and legally. The woman is quite successful in her career as manager of a private company in Changchun City, Jilin Province, northeast China. Her personal life, however, is not. She fell in love with a classmate back in the early 1980s, and was heart-broken when the young man left her. Since then, the woman has found that no man in this world is good enough to be her husband. Though single, she wants to have a child of her own. "I'll be burning with envy whenever I see a     

Threading. Traditional Miao Beauty Treatment

The removal of facial hair by threading is a common practice among the Miao women of western Hunan. It is a coming-of-age ritual for Miao girls and a popular beauty treatment for Miao women. The practice started way back in history and employs a simple technique. An experienced practitioner can do it on her own face using just a hemp thread. She takes one end of a thread in her one hand holds the other between her teeth. The middle part of the thread is looped between the thumb and forefinger of the right hand, and this is rolled over the face. By opening and closing her hand, she alternately loosens and tightens the loop, twisting away the fine hair from the face and neck. Next she focuses on the the eyebrows, using the thread to trim the eyebrows into the desired shape, perhaps crescent moon or willow leaf. After threading, the skin becomes clean and clear. Studies show that twisting the fine hair off helps to smooth the skin, because subsequent regrowth is finer. Constant depilation make the follicles shrink, producing an enduringly beautiful skin.