Social Expectations in China

I remember the scene vividly:Late last year,I was eating lunch with a Chinese friend who was obviously upset.When I met her at the gate of the student canteen,she tried her best to make small talk,but something was clearly wrong.Her head hung low,her eyes were glued to the floor,and she     

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     

The Thought of Learning Art

For young artist Wang Tiantian, creating significant work means everything. The canvases on which she strives to reproduce her thoughts and feelings, testify to the depth of her imagination. Her studio is filled with oil paints, sketchpads, silks and butterflies, all of which she uses to create her artworks. She compares art to cooking, believing that it doesn't matter what seasonings are used as long as the food tastes good.Born in the 1970s, Wang Tiantian wants her work to     

Exploring Belt and Road Opportunities

<正>Localization helps a Chinese SOE make inroads into overseas markets Gao Fei,a Chinese engineer with a3-year-old daughter,had been working for the Malaysia-based subsidiary of the Metal urgical Corp.of China(MCC),a Chinese state-owned enterprise(SOE),for nearly three years."When I left China to work in Kuala Lumpur,my daughter was just 2 months old.Now that I am back,I am like a stranger to her because I have missed many important stages in her     

Mommy, Where Do Dumplings Come from？

I feel certain that in one of my mom's past lives she was Chinese and had her own restaurant. You could not tell this by looking at her of course, but her passion for cooking is proof enough for me. This is further endorsed by the magnitude of dumplings in our house. Whenever I come home the refrigerator is loaded with mom's homemade dumplings or their Slavonic cousins, known as vareniks. When I visited Beijing for the first time in October 1999 I     

AMERICANS LOVE ''''MADE IN CHINA''''

While Chinese goods are going down well with U.S. consumers,the trade benefits remain a bone of contentionWhen Vanessa Caceres spoke to her husband about having to cut costs because of their newborn baby, it's understandable. When she mentions her husband's 12-year-old son and 20-year-old daughter still living with them in a modest townhouse in the Washington, DC suburbs, her financial situation becomes clearer, as     

LETTERS

I read China Today with great interest, especially Language Corner at the end of the magazine. One thing I would like to be able to do is use my computer for word processing in Chinese. I use it for practically everything else, but I don't know any way of entering Chinese into a word processor.     

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     

The Hakka Women──Deng Ming and His Paintings

A dozen years ago, Deng Ming went to Meizhou, Guangdong, where he stayed with a local Hakka family. When a Hakka girl, 15 or 16 years old, offered him a cup of tea, he noticed that her hands had been roughened by hard work. The girl was neither pretty nor lively, but her smile was pure and innocent, reflecting her sincerity. This touched the painter deeply. "I felt that the girl was just like the tea she held in her hands: clear and sweet," Deng reflects. He later created a painting depict…     

Struggling to Survive Chinese infant formula brands are losing out to their foreign competitors due to lost consumer confidence following numerous scandals By Zhou Xiaoyan and Xu Tao

Yu Linlin,a typical Beijing mother,never takes risks with and always tries to provide the best care for her threemonth-old baby Scrutinizing every decision,from what clothes to put on her baby during the hot summer months to what kind of toys to let him play with,she is never quick to act,but always considering every possibility for her infant.When it comes to baby formula milk,she is particularly cautious-Chinese companies have a tainted reputation for distributing equally tainted products in recent years.     

Enabling the Future

正Seven million people with disabilities in China have moved out of dire poverty over the past five years When the car crash that changed the course of her life happened in April 2011, Yang Shuting was just about to embark on her career as a nurse at a local hospital in Hunan Province. Waking up in a daze, she found herself in intensive care. Not long after, doctors told Yang that the accident had left her with high paraplegia,     

Earn with an E-Store

ZHANG Xin returned from a trip to Yunnan with a haul of fresh goods. Barely pausing for breath she snapped each item with her digital camera and uploaded the shots onto her infant e-store, attaching an appealing caption to each one. Last month, her e-store sprouted its first tooth of profit. "Though the profit margin is small, I enjoy this way of doing business," says Zhang Xin. Zhang deals in special local     

Soong Ching Ling Camphor Tree Award Bestowed on Quake Heroine

THE 14th Soong Ching Ling Camphor Tree Award has bestowed a special prize to Jiang Min, a Sichuan policewoman who remained at her post after the May 12 earthquake killed 10 members of her family, including her parents and two-year-old daughter. Seeing the many mothers and children in need of urgent help, she gave up a chance to return home to have a last look at her family, and joined the rescue work without hesitation. The agony of losing those she loved most, coupled with overwork through five sleepless days and nights, caused Jiang Min to collapse several times at the rescue site, When her story came out in the media, people lauded her as ＂China＇s strongest policewoman.＂     

Pinning My Hopes on Needles

When I entered the acupunc- ture clinic at the Jintai Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital in Beijing, the doorway was partially blocked by a woman sitting with her chin in a sling. I stepped over her legs, then squeezed past another woman with needles s…     

Princess Kong Sizhen

ONE of the many outstanding women in Chinese history is Kong Sizhen - the Han princess who devoted her lite to upholding the 268-year-long Manchu Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). Kong Sizhen, daughter of Han general Kong Youde. is immortalized in the name Gongzhufen (tomb of the princess). a district and subway station at the western end of Beijing's Chang'an Avenue. Kong Sizhen was the only woman ever to have been entrusted with the post of chief imperial guard, or to have been given command of troops de fending the southwestern border. Her spirit of self-sacrifice is regarded with similar reverence as that of Joan of Ark of France and Elizabeth I of England.     

LANGUAGE DILEMMA

Linguists and the government hope to preserve the diversity of China's languages When Xu Shixuan, a linguist from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, returned to a southwestern county bordering Myanmar in 2002 to study the local language after a nine-year interval, she was struck by the change to Li Xuewen, a master storyteller in the village. Xu could not relate the silent and listless old man with watery, turbid eyes to her vivid memory of Li reciting tales of his ancestors.     

Invisible Influencers--Language experts' role in the frontline of the battle against COVID-19

When Ji Jin flew into Italy in March,it was the height of the novel coronavirus disease(COVID-19)epidemic there and her work meant direct exposure to high risk.She was an interpreter for the Chinese medical team that had been sent to work with Italian doctors on COVID-19 prevention and control.     

Adventures in ＂Big Charity＂

THE aftermath of spectacular success is often a look back over the shoulder, and Chinese entrepreneurs-cum-philanthropists are busy trying to give back to their societies. As it turns out, corporations are discovering philanthropy is a lot more complicated than they thought. When life was simple, the donor could see where the donation went. When donors and benefactors rubbed elbows, good was done, and seen to be done. But these are the days of ＂big charity＂ - the needs may be great or small, or the beneficiaries far or near, but the management of foundations is complicated now; it isn＇t easy to follow the money and it isn＇t all about money anymore.     

Li Zhaoping,Carer-in-Chief of Disabled Orphans

Helping orphans with disabilities has been the main occupation of 60-year-old Li Zhaoping -"Mom" to the 100 or so children in her care -for the past 20 years. QUALIFIED pediatrician Li Zhaoping makes it her business to seek out and treat Chinese orphans with congenital disabililie That her vocation is based on love and compassion is plain from the way her face lights up when she speaks of the 100 children in her care. Li is chairperson of the Beijing International Committee for Chinese Orphans (BICCO), and her extended     

Human Flesh Search and Protection of the Right to Privacy--Definition and protection of right to privacy under the new form of society

When the network age just started, many netizens thought everything was virtual in the net. A man may vilify others in the name of a woman; a poor man may play games and make friends as a wealthy man. Now, networks are so closely connected with the real society that the network cannot be separated from it. Anyone who wants to get something clear, he could resort to crowdsourcing to seek answers. Network is, therefore,