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     

Not one less——Directed by Zhang Yimou, China, 1999,106 min.

In her village, she was the teacher... In the city, she discovered how much she still had to learn. At the Shuiquan Primary School,Teacher Gao has to be away from schoolfor a month to take care of his mother. Themayor of the village finds a substituteteacher, Wei Minzhi, to take over Gao'sclass. Seeing that Wei Minzhi is only thir-teen years old. Gao protests to the mayorthat such a young girl will not be able toteach students, who are of her own age oronly slightly younger. The mayor rep…     

Spare the Rod

Summer is a wonderful season for many school children.But for Sun Zhengwen,a 13-year-old girl in Qingdao,east China's Shandong Province,it was a very dark time.On July 8,just days into the holidays she jumped off a building and killed herself,leaving behind a threepage suicide note accusing her parents of violence and abuse. According to Sun's note,on the evening of July 6,her father found that she did not finish a question in her homework assignment.He slapped her on her left cheek,to which she screamed "I lost my hearing," prompting a harder slap to the right side of the face that sent her to the ground,reeling.She wrote that her parents continued to beat her until she lost consciousness,and she did not wake up until the next morning.     

A Cozy Home for Child Patients──A Visit to Changchun Municipal Children''''s Hospital

IN a ward of the Changchun Municipal Children's Hospital, a pretty little girl sits in bed, absorbed in her toys, a happy smile on her face. It is hard to believe that only five days ago she had a heart operation. At six months of age, she was found to suffer from congenital heart disease. Her mother took her to many big hospitals, but could not make the decision to put her daughter through heart surgery. While cogitating, she read in a newspaper that the Changchun Municipal Children's Hos…     

Life-saving Water Tanks

HUANG Mei'e goes into her dark kitchen, lights a torch, takes a shoulder-pole and two water pails and leaves her home. In the dis-tance, several torches can be seen heading for the other side of the mountain. Since she married and moved to Xiaodong Village, daily life has revolved around the spring in a limestone cave several kilome-ters away from her home. Huang Mei'e lives in Donglan Countuy, Guangxi Zhuang     

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.     

Ten Chinese Who Have Deeply Moved the African People

Li Li Head of the Zhongken Farm in Zambia. Since she accompanied her husband to work in the Zhongken Farm in Zambia in 1992, she has always given her work the highest priority and never returned to China. She used to be a nurse and before coming to Zambia, she knew nothing about agriculture and livestock farming. After years of practice, now she is an expert in these fields. In 2005 her husband passed away in a traffic accident. Facing this sudden misfortune, she turned grief into strengt…     

Rural Roots,City Shoots

China's vast army of rural migrant laborers is gradually finding a more permanent place in the cities Just months ago,Zhu Xueqin,a 31-year-old migrant worker in Shanghai,couldn't imagine that she would be in the center of the media limelight as one of three migrant worker deputies of the 11th National People's Congress(NPC)held in March. When she came to Shanghai from the countryside 12 years ago,she had only a middle school diploma.But her diligence and intelligence have helped her to work her way     

Balancing Paychecks Wealth disparities provoke calls for income distribution reform

Thirty-year-old Ye Lei had worked in a state-owned factory in her hometown Jiangxi Province for seven years. Although she had been promoted to the position of the department head, she quit her job last month to work as a sales representative in a marketing company in Beijing.     

Should Single Women Be Allowed To Freeze Their Eggs?

A 31-year-old unmarried woman,Xu Zaozao,recently sued a Beijing hospital after it refused to freeze her ova,commonly known as egg cells,so that she could have children later.Xu said she needed to devote her time and energy to her career,having received a recent promotion.It meant greater responsibilities and pressure to perform well.So she wanted to freeze her eggs while she was at the prime of fertility.     

Howl''''s Moving Castle

Story I Getting old In a flash It is a story occurring in the magic world. Sophie, who, at the wonderful age of 18, should have been dating or attending parties in fine dress just like other girls, has had to run the hat shop left her by her father on her own. She would take care of the business in the shop day after day, but she was happy, for she wished to make the best hats for her customers.     

Reforms Flowing in China's Dairy Industry

WANG Yan is the mother of a one-year-old girl. With breastfeeding over, she is at her wits’ end trying to choose a brand of baby formula for her child. The powdered formula her friend bought for her from the Netherlands turned out to be not suited to the child’s physique. She used a Japanese brand at local supermarkets before an unfortunate outbreak of foot and mouth disease     

Being Chinese in the West

T he woman spoke a polished English with an Australian accent as she greeted us on board the rickety bus carry- ing us to Yangshuo, with the peasants and their marketwares. We became acquainted over the dusty potholes as shetold of spending time with her aunt in Shanghai and the com-plications she had faced with the Chinese language. It was notuntil she removed her sunglasses that the full extent of her plightbecame obvious, as she explained that most people expectedher to be fluent in Manda…     

Traditional Crafts Highlighting Olympics The Beijing Olympics offers an unprecedented opportunity for China to save its disappearing folk arts

Tang Ying ying , a 19-year-old history major , bears clear hallmarks of the Chinese you n g er gen e r ation: she oo z es confidence and a sense of su p e r io r ity; and differ ent from oldergen e r ations, she often says “I” instead of “w e.” She wants to live her life according to her own ideas and she dares to pursue suc- cess, excellence and new things. But the un i ver sity junior admits that she has some un usual hobbies for her age. Influenced by her gran d f ath e r , Tang is a …     

When Virtual Faces Reality

At the end of last year,Cui Xiaopan won the outstanding employee award for her performance at China’s leading real estate developer China Vanke.Since joining the Finance Department of Vanke in February 2021,she has quickly learned how to spot problems in processing data.In the eyes of her superiors,Cui is a fast learner and can work thousands of times more efficiently than her colleagues;what's impressive is that she is able to work year-round without taking a day off-or getting paid.     

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.＂     

His bride died young

A couple of years ago, a beautiful bride died at an early age, but she kept visiting her husband every night. As the first rays of sunlight shone through the paper-screen windows, she would leave again. How he wished to be together with her all day long! The young man thought long and hard about what he could do to stop her from leaving every morning. At long last, the idea came to him of shutting out the sunlight from his room. He at once ordered a tailor to make a large, thick curtain     

Physical Perfectionists

M ILLIONS of Chinese people start their sum- mer’s day with a fi ght – a battle, that is, for a place in the shade in the local park. The 72-year-old Bai Yixu is one of them. Every morning, she rises at 6am, drinks down a yo- gurt with a small cake, and rushes to her local common to per- form her daily exercises. There she meets dozens of her peers, all competing for that spot in the shade that will protect these health enthusiasts from the blazing sun. Summertime tempera- tures in Beij…     

A Woman Drug Trafficker:“I Could Not Live Till Today, If Not for...”

What about a convicted criminal when he or she is ill? Let it run its own course or extend a humanitarian hand? The case of Deng Jinhua furnished an example. Deng Jinhua, 37, was born in Linquan County, Anhui Province. On 26 January 2000, She was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for drug trafficking by the People's Court of Wenling City, Zhejiang Province. She suffers from recurrent epilepsy. While she was serving her term, the disease often recurred. But, instead of seeing her suffer, the prison wardens extended a warm help to her while making great efforts to make her repent.     

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