Clear Water Flowing Easily,Pure Heart Speaking Naively

Qiu Zhaoming, a renowned Chinese painter, was born in Zhejiang, China in 1940 and graduated from the Central Academy of Fine tArts in 1964. Majoring in Traditional Chinese Painting, she studied from famous painting masters like Li Keran, Li Kuchan, YeQianyu and Zong Qixiang. As a member of Chinese Artist Association and the Editor-in-chief of People＇s Fine Arts Publishing House, she won several national awards. Her works have been displayed and awarded both nationally and internationally. In 1990, she received IBBY meritorious prize and the Hans Christian Andersen Award Nominees for her excellent illustrations for children. She becomes the first Chinese painter to be awarded for this prize. In t999, she was awarded the honorary title of World Outstanding Chinese Artist and Worldwide Golden Prize for Chinese. In 2001, her paintings were selected and displayed at the exhibition ＂Chinese Traditional Paintings of the Past 100 Years.＂ She has numerous publications which are listed in Directory of Famous Painters in Modem China and Collection of Chinese Paintings in the Past Century as well as other encyclopedias and large albums of painting. Moreover, several works of her have been collected by National Museum of China, the head office of IBBY in Swiss and other institutions.     

Adhering to the Values of an Intellectual

Iwas among the first law students China given the opportunity to travel to the Soviet Union for an education. But upon returning to China,I found that I was unable to put what I had learned into practice. China＇s legal system was still barely in existence, or at least, in function prior to the openingup and reform that started in 1978. After the chaos that decades of ＂class struggle＂ caused in China ended, together with a determined group of teachers,     

第一单元:新中国的十七年电影(1950-1966年)(英文)

Diverse and Colorful Nation-State Building of Multi-Ethnic China The year 1949 was a new beginning in China’s history.At the time,flames of war were smoldering and a united multi-ethnic nation was standing up.In 1954,the first Constitution of the People’s Republic of China asserted that the People’s Republic of China is a singular nation in which all ethnic groups are equal and reserve the right to exercise their own spoken and written languages,as well as the freedom to preserve their customs.In essence,’diversity in ethnic groups’was one element     

China''''s Wakening Up

It was on a dark evening in late autumn of the year of the dragon 1976 when I first arrivedin Beijing. The atmosphere was depressed:Chairman Mao had died shortly before. In thefollowing days I realized that even ordinary Chi-nese were mourning the death of the Greathelmsman to an extent, which went much be-yond, I was used to see in the west. In a way itmade Chinese people feel confronted with avacuum and tor a while quite a few seem tohave lost orientation. But life had to go on, and at the university     

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     

Brains Unchain Chinese Education Devolves to Evolve

BY 2020, the number of people holding accreditations of higher education in China will reach 200 million. Astounding as the figure is, most Chinese higher education institutions （HEIs） are still puzzled by a question that was first raised to Premier Wen Jiabao by famous Chinese scientist Qian Xuesen - why can＇t we cultivate top-notch talent？ So far no university in China＇s mainland has been included in the Top 200 Academic Rankings of World Universities. Though the country has the largest number of college graduates and postgraduates, it hasn＇t yet produced one Nobel Prize laureate.     

MARKET WATCH

The Chinese central bank reported that financial performance in the first half of this year was generally stable.But mu- tual funds had heavy losses because of the bearish stock market. Profits at state-owned companies were down 10.3 percent year on year,largely on account of losses in the petrochemical and power industries.China's first defeat in a WTO trade dispute means the country will see an increase in the demand for imported cars.The mainland food,beverage and hotel industry saw fast development in the first half and was expected to continue the trend during the rest of the year.     

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.     

Reflection of feminism in modern China —— Reflection of feminism in modern China

The women＇s liberation movement in China started after the first opium war and it took shape with the aim of protecting the race and salvaging the country. Doubtlessly, the emergence of modern feminism opened the precedent in the theory of women＇s liberation in China and exerted a profound and far-reaching influence on women＇s liberation afterwards. But we must face up to the fact that there was some traps or misunderstanding of modern feminism, which were unfavorable for realizing women＇s rights and such influence was long, so much so that till today we are still seeing its existence. It is, therefore, necessary to have a full reflection of modem feminism, unveil the original meaning of women＇s rights and make women＇s rights return to human rights in order to make the development of women＇s fights continue.     

Chinese Coaches Training Athletes Around the World

AUSTRALIAN Chantelle Newbery, the 10-meter platform diving gold medal winner at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, was very excited when she received the medal and let a reporter in on a secret. ＂I would not have won this gold medal had I not been trained by my coach Wang Tongxiang over the past nine years. Diving is not an advantageous event for Australia, and it is all because of my coach Wang＇s hard work that I＇m able to win this gold medal. I am very grateful to him. Thank God that I was given the opportunity to be trained by such an excellent and outstanding coach,＂ she said.