Chinese Local Friendship Delegation In Italy and San Marino

A Chinese local friendship delegation headed by Peng Xiaomin, honorary president of the Haikou Municipal People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, paid a good- will visit to Italy and San Ma- rino from March 29 to April 9 at the invitation of the Italian Association for Development of Cultural Exchanges between China and Europe and San Ma- rino-China Friendship Associa- tion (SMCFA). The delegation was organized and sent by the CPAFFC. Head of State of San Ma…     

Exchanges

Peking Opera Lecturers Speak in the U.S.and Canada A lecture on Peking Opera was given on August 17 in San Jose in the San Francisco Bay Area of the United States.The activity aimed to try more ways of sharing with Westerners this facet of traditional Chinese culture.Song Guanlin,president of     

Yancheng City Delegation Visits San Diego County of the U. S.

Yancheng City of Jiangsu Province and San DiegoCounty of California have carried out several substantial exchanges and their friendly relations have seen sound and steady development since the two signed the agreement of intention on the establishment of friendship-city relations in April 2002. When Ron     

The Human Face of China-Myanmar Ties

<正>Aung San Suu Kyi’s China visit adds a new dimension to neighbors’relationship Aung San Suu Kyi,the renowned social activist and Chair of the National League for Democracy(NLD),Myanmar,paid her first visit to China from June 10 to 14 at the invitation of the International Department of the Communist Party of China.As she is Myanmar’s opposition leader,observers have labeled Suu Kyi’s Beijing trip as historic and indicative of a flourishing in relations between the two countries.     

Torch Route Twist

San Francisco changes Olympic flame route due to security fears The city of San Francisco,the only North American stop for the 2008 Beijing Olympic torch,surprised thousands of supporters,demon- strators and visitors on April 9,by com- pletely changing the planned torch route at the last minute without notification. As scheduled,the torch was expected to start from the McCovey Cove in the south- east of the city at 1:00 p.m.before heading along the waterfront northbound to famous tourist spot Fisherman's Wharf and finally     

Pushing the Rocks up the Hill

The International AIDS Conference closed on July 27 in Washington,D.C.with a clear message that the end of the AIDS epidemic is possible with sustained financial,political and scientific commitment. The event,under the theme of "turning the tide together," drew nearly 24,000 participants from 183 countries,featuring 194 sessions covering science,community and leadership. "It is a historic event," said Dr.Diane Havlir of the University of California,San Francisco,who co-chaired the world's largest AIDS meeting."It's,first of all,very significant that it is finally back here in the United States."     

Toward One Direction

正Non--Communist political parties make constant progress in multiparty cooperation and political consultation Wu Weihua,a biologist at China Agricultural University and director of the National Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry,was elected as chairman of the Central Committee of the Jiu San Society,one of the Chinese mainland’s eight non-Communist political parties,on December 7,2017.     

Shanghai and San Francisco Cooperative Relations Further Develop

Shanghai and San Francisco formally estab-lished friendship city ties on January 28,1980.Since then, the cooperative relations between thetwo cities, on the whole, have developed health-ily and steadily. The two sides have signed 6 two-year memorandums of more than 80 items of     

Persisting Racial Bias

正On May 25, George Floyd, an African American, died after a policeman knelt on his neck while arresting him. Floyd's death ignited anger and chaos across the U.S. over the unfair treatment of African Americans by the police. In an interview with Beijing Review, Jon Taylor, Chair of the Department of Political Science and Geography and professor of political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, shares his observations on the causes of the permanent racism in U.S. society.     

Guinness Record of Biggest Amount of Fried Rice Set in Celebration of Chinese Lunar New Year

On February 12, 2013-third day of the first month under the Chinese Lunar calendar-the Costa Rica-China Friendship Association and the Costa Rican Chinese Community Association (CRCCA) organized a fried-rice cooking activity in celebration of the arrival of the Year of the Snake in Chinatown in the capital San Jose. The event drew tens of     

Spring Festival at the Home of Family Fu

Having lived for 23 years in San Francisco and having a birthday in February, I often encountered celebrations of Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival as it isknown in China, in the course of my own birthday celebrations. The date of the holiday is determined by the lunar calendar so its date in the Gregorian calendar moves between January and February. For most of those 23 years, the highlight of my birthday was a visit by my parents, who would host a dinner for me and many of my friends.     

Caring for the Giant Pandas'' Future

U.S.corporation works together with Chinese organizations on conservation of the rare species Along-term partnership was formed in October by American corporation Broadcom,Broadcom Foundation, and the San Diego Zoo,together with     

Green Ideas from Other Parties

CHINA has eight political parties in addition to the ruling Communist Party of China （CPC） that participate in the managment of state affairs. They are the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang, the China Democratic League, the China Democratic National Construction Association, the China Association for Promoting Democracy, the Chinese Peasants and Workers Democratic Party, the China Zhi Gong （Public Interest） Party, the Jiu San （September 3） Society, and the Taiwan Democratic Self- Government League.     

Translators and Tools

<正>Technology is not yet advanced enough to capture the nuances of language It is no surprise Jost Zetzsche,an English-to-German translator,raised the question of whether machine translation would ever replace the human variety in front of 700 interpreters and translators who gathered in San Francisco to discuss topical issues in the translation industry.     

A Net Result

Web writer Zhang Wei, known as Tang Jia San Shao, used to primarily write fantasy novels before he began contributing to Web literature in 2004. In February, his contemporary urban romance Embracing You Beyond Lies made it to the List of Excellent Original Web Literary Works published by the State Administration of Press and Publication and the China Writers Association (CWA).     

The Rise of Internet Literature

An income list reveals the growth of cyber novels and novelists Which local author made the most money via Internet novels during the past five years? The answer was Zhang Wei, pen named Tang Jia San Shao,who earned 33 million yuan($5.3 million) between 2007 and 2012.     

My China Eye-Memoirs of a Jew and a Journalist

Israel Epstein, journalist, author, war cor-respondenl. and for many years a stateless Jew, is an eyewitness to history. Just before his ninetieth-birthday on April 20. 2005. his English autobiography. My China Eye. Memoirs of a Jew and a Journalist, was printed by Long River Press in San Francisco. USA. This memoir, spanning over eighty years. offers a dramatic and highly personal account of coming-of-age amid groundbreaking social change during the most turbulent years of the twentieth century.     

A TALE OF CONTINUITY AND CREATIVITY

正Peking Opera seeks balance between tradition and innovation in modern times In the classic Peking Opera San Cha Kou(or The Crossway), two male roles battle each other fiercely yet quietly in the night. The stage characters pretend to be shrouded in darkness, lunging at one another by listening, smelling and touching, but never seeing. To Chao Fan, an actor with the China National Peking Opera Co., this type of performance, one without an actual physical setup, is the charm and essence of Peking Opera.     

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