Love for Love

A Shanghai doctor gives back to herdsmen by serving them in Tibet The drain in Zhou Jian’s bathroom is clogged with hair again. The 48-year-old has a buzz cut and lives alone, but he said the drain blocks twice a month.It never happened when I was in Shanghai. I’m losing my hair much faster on the plateau, Zhou, Vice President of the Xigaze People’s Hospital in Tibet Autonomous Region, southwest China, told Beijing Review.     

Love Beijing, Love Beijing Not

<正>Arecent three-week visit to the United States after 18 months of working and traveling in China allowed me to get back into an American swing of things.I spent time with friends and     

Opera From Heaven

正Tibetan opera seeks innovative expressions of life Surrounded by an air of mystery,three performers wearing blue masks entered the stage in the opening scene of a Tibetan opera. They recited a legend of aTibetan figure from a distant age, in a familiar motif of the art form. With holy and customary     

Virtual Love

正Video dating and online wedding guests gain acceptance amid novel coronavirus By Lu YanXiao Yun,a 32-year-old office clerk in Dalian,Liaoning Province in northeast China,stayed at home due to the novel coronavirus disease in the first half of the year.But to her surprise,she was still able to go on blind dates with men chosen by her family members and friends.     

Cyber Love

PEOPLE asking how I got to know my boyfriend are incredulous when I tell them. Our love story is different from that of most people, as our matchmaker was the Internet.Nowadays getting on the Internet is a staple of life in developed regions. Cyber-chat is the foremost pastime for young people, and net-friends are as numerous as colleagues and schoolmates. Many people nev-     

A Feast Of Opera

The National Center for the Performing Arts puts on a three-month festival The 2010 Opera Festival of the National Center for the Performing Arts (NCPA) is to kick off soon.     

Peking Opera on Broadway

WITH a history spanning more than two centuries,Peking Opera is regarded as the jewel in the crown of Chinese culture.Born in Beijing in the mid-19th century,it absorbed facets of a variety of performing arts from different provinces including Anhui,Hubei,Shaanxi,Jiangxi,Jiangsu,and Hebei.In     

The Peking Opera Aesthetic

WITHIN traditional Chinese aesthet- ics there is actual and virtual appre- ciation of beauty.The Chinese concept of beauty is re flected in the thoughts of Laozi, a con temporary of Confucius (551-479 B.C and arguably China's most profoun philosopher. To him, the pursuit of hu man knowledge in the changing worl was an endless vocation. He wrote i the Dao De Jing (The Scripture of Eth ics), "Great sound is hard to hear, grea form has no shape," inferring that tru beauty and greatness ex…     

A Tibetan Opera Master

At nine o'clock on the morning of January 19, 2007, bright sunshine covers Quzong, a village in Rinbung County in Tibet's Gyangze Prefecture. Ci Ren, 79, leaves home after having buttered tea. He is going to visit Pian Duo. head of the village's Jiang Ga Er Tibetan Opera Troupe, to discuss borrowing costumes from the county's opera troupe. They plan to perform Tibetan Opera for the villagers for two days. For Ci Ren and his fellow perform-     

Kunqu Opera In Nanjing

正Foreigners in China often pursue the passions. One person may collec antique snuff bottles, while anothe may seek out a prized Qing robe. One of th most compelling     

Love and Destiny

first met Adrian five yearsago.Helping each other tolearn English and Chinesebrought us together,and itwas some time during one ofthe days or evenings we met tostudy that we fell in love.Fromthat time on we spent happy,     

Lessons With Love

正Volunteers and policies go hand in hand to improve rural educationWhen Zhang Chengxiang, a teacher from a technical college in east China, recently went to Xiliushui Hope Primary School in Guizhou Province in southwest China to be a volunteer teacher, it was her second mission in that isolated area. When she first got there, she was daunted by the high mountains that encircled the vil age and cut it off from the outside world.     

Love as Beauty

HE is a good teacher. As a part-time professor at a Shanghai university, he is loved by his students. He also showed potential as a lawyer, jour-nalist and a TV anchor. What did he become? A pastor. Many people can be excellent teachers, lawyers and journalists, but far fewer can become good pastors, particularly one who loves life and art.     

Lessons In Love

正Age-appropriate sex education aims to make youths more responsible What comes to your mind immediately when we talk about sex?In a sex education class for primary school students’ parents in Dujiangyan, southwest China’s Sichuan Province,teacher Du Li asks this question and triggers an animated discussion on     

Love beyond Borders

正IN a speech delivered at Seoul National University in the Republic of Korea on July 4,2014,Chinese President Xi Jinping told a story about a bone marrow donor.Zhang Bao is a Chinese volunteer donor whose blood sample matched that of a South Korean leukemia patient.After recovering from a car accident,he kept his promise to donate his bone marrow to the patient."Fate is unpredictable.It’s not a big deal to lend a hand when others are suffering,"Xi said,quoting Zhang’s words.The president said that of the 156foreign patients who received Chinese bone marrow,45 were South Korean–far surpassing the number from other countries."Moving stories like this can     

肥皂剧与大众文化

大众文化是一种都市工业社会或大众消费社会的特殊产物,是大众消费社会中通过大众传媒所承载、传递的文化产品,这是一种合成的加工的文化产品,其明显特征主要是为大众消费而创造出来的,有标准化和模拟个性的特色。大众传媒是大众文化的重要载体,大众传媒的重要功能是传播文化的功能。而作为电子媒介的电视可以说是当代大众文化的象征系统。肥皂剧,这一出现于20世纪30年代的电视节目形式,以其鲜明的特点,反映着大众文化与电视的关系。     

Revival of the Cantonese Opera

WALKING along the archaistic streets of Yongqingfang Square in Guangzhou,one will notice a museum built in the architectural style of a Lingnan gar-den (a typical garden south of the Five Mountain Ridges in south China).That is the Cantonese Opera Art Museum.Standing as a local landmark,the "garden museum" has attracted many Canton-ese Opera lovers.     

Learning About Tibet from Opera

Where there is a Tibetan community, there is also Tibetan Opera. One of the oldest forms of drama among peoples of Central Asia, 17betan Opera can be traced back to the 13th cen- tury. Thang-stong-rgyal-po （1385- 1464）, a lama of the White Sect of Tibetan Buddhism, is believed to be the founder of Tibetan Opera. He wrote many dramas that musically portray religious stories and biographies of great men.