Western China-An Artist＇s Spiritual Home

The artist Wang Xiongxi, a native of western China, devotes all his artistic passion to the land where he was born and raised. Without exception, the images in his paintings, the barren Loess Plateau, local cave homes and the ancient trees express his earnest desire to present its unique culture and landscapes to the outside world.     

A Catalogue of Artistic Firsts

Yu Chengsong has secured a unique position in Chinese art history by virtue of his groundbreaking creation of a new genre combining oil painting and woodcut. Also, applying the techniques of traditional Chinese painting, Yu has reworked portraits of famous people in Chinese and world history, works that have been hailed as landmarks in China＇s portraiture. His are representative works of the fourth wave of Chinese and Western painting art,     

Oils in All Weathers

WU Hao is a rising star in the mainstream arts world. His works are among those most sought by both overseas and domestic art dealer, among the latter China Guardian Auctions, Poly Auctions and the Beijing Hanhai Auction Co., Ltd. Wu Hao was born in 1973. His family's artistic traditions are eminent in his father, Wu Jiankun, who designed the landmark souvenir sheet of stamp, Stage Art of Mei Lanfang. Wu Hao has been immersed in his own art since childhood. "Nothing ever interrupted the flow of my art studies, which is probably why my work always got the top marks in exams and competitions," he says, candidly. Having graduated from the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts in 1996, in 1998 Wu went to France to continue his studies. His exceptional talent gained him direct entry into the 4th grade of the Ecole Nationale Superieure de Beaux Arts of Paris. He graduated with the DNSAP, one of the highest degrees in plastic arts that France awards.     

Moment of Seabirds in Flight

ALTHOUGH not intentionally Yu Jiantao’s paintings tend toexpress solitude and melancholy,a reflection of his introverted personality and solitary life.Yu followed his parents into the countryside in 1969,where they were forcedto labor and live a rural life until 1978,when the family returned totheir home city.This period of simple pastoral life left Yu with unfor-gettable memories and inspired him to take up a painting brush Asa self-taught artist,Yu has pursued his own path persistently andfruitfully.     

"CHINA IS MY HOME"

AMemoir of More Than 80 Years in China by Israel Epstein was translated into Chinese and published by the New World Press in April this year to celebrate the author's 89th birthday. The 415-page book tells about his love for China, his profound friendly sentiments towards the Chinese people, his great expectation for the construction of new China and his confidence in the bright prospects for its future.     

Resplendent Aloofness

BORN in Beijing and a graduate of the Central Academy of FineArts,Hu Yongkai first won acclaim in Shanghai.A U.S.citizen,Hu now commutes between Hong Kong and Shenzhen. The influences of North and South China and oriental and occiden-tal cultures are apparent in Hu’s bold,colorful,yet finely detailed paint-ings.His South China landscapes are in dense ink and color in contrastto the subtle tinges of traditional works.His paintings also feature arti-cles of Chinese folk costume,like the red doudou(an undergarment cov-     

如痴如醉的追求──记山水画家王大理

Mr. Wang Dali was born to an intellectual family in Shouyang, Shanxi in 1944. For many years, he has been painstakingly seeking the quintessence of the Chinese ink－ and－ water free style paintings, madly looking for the deepest layers of“ sediment” deposited by China’ s 5,000－ year civilization and its perfect sublimeness, and unswervingly plugging along the road of creating a style of his own by combining the Chinese culture with western culture. He said that painting was indeed an al…     

Gastronomic Tour

CHINESE cuisine is renowned for its eight major distinctive styles： the cuisines of Shandong, Zhejiang and Jiangsu in eastern China; Anhui and Hunan in central China; Sichuan in western China; and Fujian and Cantonese cooking in southern China. Each style has anything from dozens to hundreds of delicacies developed over many centuries.     

Thinking from the Heart!

AN American investment banker and a longtime China observer, Dr. Robert Lawrence Kuhn became a household name in China as the author of The Man Who Changed China： The Life and Legacy of Jiang Zemin, a best-seller in 2005 demonstrating the life of China＇s former president. The success of this book facilitated his subsequent work in this country. His experiences, accumulated over four years of crisscrossing the nation and dozens of interviews with officials at all levels, have been published in his new book： How China＇s Leaders Think.＂ The Inside Story of China＇s Reform and What This Means for the Future.     

Grassland Tours

FORTY percent of China＇s territory,about 400million bectares,is grassland,mostly found in the western part of Heilongjing,Jilin and Liaoning provinces,across Inner Mongolia,in the hilly area of Northwest China and on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.The most famous and iconic of these regions are Hulun Buir and Xilin Gol in Inner Mongolia ,the alpine pastures of western Sichuan,the Ili Grasslands of Xinjiang and Tibet＇s Nagqu Grasslands.     

Bringing Frozen Landscapes to Life——Dong Junqi＇s Ink-and-Wash Art

DONG Junqi＇s wash paintings capture the beauty and quiet elegance of crystal ice, a unique natural characteristic of northern China. The artist mainly depicts the perennially snow-capped Changbai Mountains. His skillful use of ink-and-wash, and the meticulous layout of his work, owes a clear debt to traditional Chinese landscape painting, as well as expressing Dong＇s own innovative style.     

What China Offers and Why The United States Resists

正James Peck,visiting professor at New York University and founder of the Culture and Civilization of China project at Yale University Press and the China International Publishing Group,shared his views on China’s rising role in dealing with global inequality in a world dominated by the U.S.-centric globalism.An edited excerpt of his article fol ows:In the words of the great African-American abolitionist,Frederick Douglass,"To understand you have to stand under."Today many of us live in the United States in a world of     

James Endicott and His Life in China

J ames Endicott was born in Sichuan Province, China in 1898. He was the first son of a Ca-nadian Missionary. As a well-known social activ-ist, he devoted his whole life to the people-to-peo-ple friendship between Canada and China. James spent his childhood in Chengdu, an oldand peaceful city of Sichuan. His memory ofChengdu was full of beautiful dreams and happi-ness. He was a spirited child and delighted in fly-ing kites. One of his kites was like a dragon, 40feet long. When it …     

Upgrading Western Development

正China unveils new guideline on western development to enhance opening up,innovation in the region Chinese policymakers on May 17 issued a guideline on advancing the new pattern of western development in the new era,which calls for winning the"three tough battles'against major risks,poverty and environmental pollution,improving innovation capability and building a modern industrial system in the country's western region.The development of the western region remains unbalanced and inadequate and lags far behind the eastern region,making it arduous to further reduce poverty.The western region is still a weak link in completing the building of a moderately prosperous society in all respects and achieving socialist modernization,the guideline says.The guideline requires a notable improvement in ecological,business and innovation environment as well as opening up of the western region by 2020 and the completion of the building of a moderately prosperous society in     

Hong Kong Hero

ON April 14, 2010, an earthquake hit Yushu, Qinghai Province, in western China. Wong Fuk Wing, a volunteer who had come all the way from Hong Kong, died in the rescue effort. He was born in 1964 and for most of his life worked as a container truck driver. He started volunteering before he turned 20, and those who knew him called him the highly auspicious name ＂A Fu.＂     

The Mysterious Forest in Xishuangbanna

Shen Xueren was born in Weifang City,Shandong Province in June 1941.He graduated from the Central Academy of Arts in 1966,and re- ceived a doctor's degree at the United Nations International University. Now,he is a member of the China Artists Association and the Chinese Calligrapher Association,a consultant for the China International Association of Celebrity,the arts and cultural exchange ambassador of the World Peace Foundation,an honorable member of the British Royal Joint Academy of Sciences,a researcher at the Research Center of the World Cultural Arts and an honored painter of the Cultural Market Development Center of the Ministry of Culture. In 1978,Shen created the Flower Painting Association.In the same year,he participated in the setting up of Beijing Painting Shop.In 1980,he created the Research Association of Flower and Bird Paintings together with his friends.In 1999,he set up Shen Xueren Art Gallery and Shen Xueren Art Museum.From 1982 to 2000,he had many art exhibitions in many countries including the U.S.A.,Japan,France,Canada and Singapore.Wu Zuoren,Chairman of China Artists Association,attended the opening ceremony of his exhibition in Beijing.The chairman of the Artists Association hosted his exhibition in France.The Chinese Ambassador in Canada,Yu Chen,hosted his exhibi- tion in Canada. The local TV and newspapers report on his exhibitions,and his artwork is collected by embassies and museums.He was invited to draw pictures for the National Museum of China,the Great Hall of the People, Xinhua News Agency,the People's Daily and CCTV,and was also invited to the University of Toronto to give lectures on Chinese painting. Shen has won many awards in many countries.These include an award of excellence for international ink paintings held in Japan in 1986, an award of excellence for new in- ternational art exhibitions in 1988 in Japan,the gold medal of the second Chinese Art Competition in 1999,a sil- ver medal in the 2000 World Chinese Art Exhibition,and a special award from the 2001 Beijing International Art Exhibition.In 2007 his artwork was collected by the UN World Peace Foundation and was awarded the World Peace Art Achievement Award. He was given the title World Art Master.     

Jampa Tiley, a Renowned Doctor of Tibetan Medicine

Special Reports:Tibetan Medicine in the 21st CenturyJAMPA Tiley, 69, is the president of the Academy of Tibetan Medicine of Tibet, deputy director of the Department of Public Health of Tibet Autonomous Region, and vice-chairman of the China Association for Science and Technology. Jampa was born in December 1929 into a family of Tibetan doctors in Lhasa. Both his father and grandfather were famous doctors. Jampa began to study the Tibetan language at the age of three, and in his earl…     

Cherishing the Memory of My Father——In Commemoration of 10th Anniversary of Death of Richard Frey

(Continued from the previous issue)My father,asa Chinesere volutionary of Austri and ecent,wasself-disciplined and low-key all his life.In a 65-year revolutionary career in China—his second homeland—he witnessed the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression,War of Liberation,New China’s construction and development,the"cultural revolution"and reform and opening up;he underwent all kinds of hardships and suffered from illness.Being unfairly treated and distrusted     

Found in Translation

The 18th World Congress of the International Federation of Translators(FIT) is bound to increase China's international exposure.Shortly before the congress,Guo Xiaoyong,Executive Vice President of the Translators Association of China(TAC),spoke to Beijing Review about his expectations for the event and his evaluation of translation and interpretation services in China.     

Life With Esperanto

Li Shijun,a master in Esperanto,was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award in Translation by the Translators Association of China on December 2,2010.The award is the highest honor conferred to living translators in China.As a pioneer in Esperanto translation in China,Li is famous for his translation of many domestic and foreign masterpieces. Recently,Beijing Review reporter Zhou Xiaoyan had an exclusive interview with him and Li shared his story and suggestions for today’s young translators.