Reeled In

At 20,Yuan Guihua,who flunked her college entrance exam,is an Internet celebrity.It started with a simple video that gained her nearly 1 million views.     

Money Grows In Tents

Yuan Xinyao is a pretty 20-something and an outdoor sports enthusiast. Three years ago, Yuan took to such sports as rock climbing, skating, boating, trekking and paragliding. "Outdoor sports offer opportunities for travel and for fresh, exciting adventures," said Yuan. Later, when she discovered that many others shared her interest,Yuan set up an outdoors club and opened an outdoors equipment shop. "I meant to promote a healthy lifestyle by bringing people close to nature and helping     

Life--Changing Exam

<正>Memories of different generations on China’s national college entrance test By Yuan Yuan Liu Xuehong,the former manager of China Youth Daily who lives in Beijing as a retiree,said her fate was changed completely by an exam 40 years ago.In October 1977,Liu,while working on a farm in a village in Beijing,got the news that the national college entrance exam,known as the     

Rock Me Baby

Multi-media rock musical Amber catches China's nihilistic rock' n' roll generation with its pants down. AFTER making love, Xiao You is plagued with guilt. The pleasure she felt with Gao Yuan had nothing to do with the heart of her dead boyfriend that has been transplanted into the rakish Gao Yuan. But when Xiao You ditches womanizer Gao on his birthday, he sleeps with lo-     

Beyond Box Office

正From a cultural landmark,the Beijing International Film Festival has grown into an incubator for talent and international cooperation By Yuan YuanL a Patota had been on Feng Luyao's wish list for a long time.The Argentinian film tells the story of Paulina,a rape survivor,as she tries to put her life back together."This movie triggers thoughts on what is real justice,"the Beijing-based lawyer said after watching it at the Sixth Beijing International Rim Festival."Without this film     

CONTINUING EXCHANGES

正Xi-Hung meeting helps to promote peace and development across the Taiwan Straits By Yuan Yuan The mausoleum of Sun Yat-sen in Nanjing welcomed a new guest on October 31,as Hung Hsiu-chu,Chairperson of the Kuomintang(KMT),chose the capital city of Jiangsu Province as the first stop of her first visit to the Chinese mainland as the KMT leader.     

Zaju Opera of the Yuan Dynasty

THE dominant genre of the Yuan Dynasty （1271-1368） was Zaju, an opera based on, northem melodies. The Yuan was the first united monarchy in Chinese history be ruled by an ethnic minority, and under it drama in general grew into a mature form of performance art.     

The Chanel of China

正Grace Chen has turned haute couture into design diplomacy By Sudeshna SarkarYuan Yuan If Grace Chen had not watched Vivien Leigh and Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood films of the 1930s and'60s as a schoolgirl,her life could have turned out differently.But it was as if fate took a hand in propelling her to become a fashion designer,with her father,a college teacher who was deeply interested in art,encouraging his two daugh-     

Garden of Perfection and Brightness in Dream

Behind Peking University and to the west of Tsinghua lies a huge area-over 300 hectares with a circumference of ten kilometres-now deserted. These are ruins of Yuan Ming Yuan, once the largest and an indescribably magnificent garden in 18th century Beijing. What you see now are just broken pillars and collapsed structures which bring lo mind scenes of ancient Rome and Greece.Yuan Ming Yuan, or the Old Summer Palace, before its destruction, was referred lo as the Garden of Gardens, since it was a combination of gardens of different styles. Chinese and Western. Yuan Ming Yuan actually consisled of three gardens the earliesl was called Yuan Ming     

Weidianying——China's Great Love for Small Movies

正IN 2012,the short film A Bed Affair became an Internet sensation in China.Through the eyes of a thief surprised by the sudden return of the flat owners during his foray,director Zhang Yuan allows the audience a 36-minute,fly-on-thewall look into an ordinary Chinese bedroom.However,what the viewers are confronted with are not intense love scenes,but a fierce quarrel that flares up between Zhang Cheng(played by Shen Teng)and his wife Li Xiaoyun(Li Xinyun)over a missing condom.     

Calling for your contribution to publicity——One of series of activities of Focus Attention upon Nanjing

---One of series of activities of Focus Attention upon Nanjing'Foreigners Living in Nanjing' or 'Nanjing Citizens Living Abroad'Nanjing is on thego to the world in her civilized and open style. Nanjing has been in newly opening to heroutside world in her whole city and in an all-round way. The Nanjing oversea Chinese orreturned scholars from the West have turned new models by setting up their new enterprises     

The Antisocial Network

Smart phones are intruding on people’s lives at a much faster pace.It is getting more difficult to get up in the morning for Liu Juan,a freshman in central China’s Wuhan University.Liu received an iPhone 4S from her parents as her college admission gift in September and since then the phone has become an irreplaceable part of her life.     

An Unfortunate Patient''''s Good Luck——Story of a Rural Woman and a Pharmaceutical Company

Xi Jianying is unfortunate and fortunate at the same time. Now in her late 60s, the woman in Shandong Province, eastern China, has suffered an unknown pain in her head since young. She is fortunate in that for the past 20 years, a pharmaceutical company in Jinan, the provincial capital, has done everything it can to relieve her of the pain. Believe it or not, the Dongfeng (meaning East Wind) Pharmaceutical Factory has been producing a "miracle" medicine just for one patient, for Xi, who lives in a mountainous village on the suburbs of Tai'an City, in total disregard of the huge cost involved and the loss thus incurred.     

Friend-Trips Across The Ocean

正With visa relaxations,2016 is ready for a greater flow of travelers between China and the United States By Yuan YuanThis month, Xu Xiaohui got her 10-year, multiple-entry visa to the United States and is now planning to make her first trip there in October."It is a surprise," the 30-year-old told Beijing     

Finding Family

Discovering her birth parents was an exciting adventure for a 15-year-old girl It took 14 years-and just two minutes-for an adopted Chinese girl to find her biological family.July 21 this year marked the first     

Continuity and Intensity

Angela Merkel, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, paid an official visit to China from May 21 to 23 at the invitation of her Chinese counterpart, Premier Wen Jiabao. It is her first trip to the country since she took office last November. In an interview with Beijing Review Publisher Wang Gangyi shortly before her visit, German Ambassador to China Volker Stanzel talked about Germany's policy toward China and current Chinese-German relations.     

Traditional-style Dress Comes Back into Vogue

LIN Hong, a bank clerk, still has her grandmother's qipao--a snugly-fitting traditional Chinese gown with a high collar and a split skirt. She normally keeps it at the back of her wardrobe, where it stays until summer comes around, when she gives it an an…     

Trafficking Victims Savour Fresh Start

She listens to the giggles of her13-year-old son and 17-year-old daughter watching a mar-tial arts programme on TV inthe lounge of her new two-sto-ry home.Xu Wanping cannot believe her weteyes: she has waited 17 years for thislaughter.In 1988, an 18-year-…     

WEEKLY WATCH

OPINION Mental Health of the Old Recently, an 88-year-old lady in Zhejiang Province sued her son for not allowing her to move to an old age home. She believes her son and daughter-in-law are expressing their filial responsibilities, but she just wants to have more privacy. Nowadays, while children do offer their parents a life with more materialistic support, they are too busy to care about the old people's psychological needs or respect their will. This can lead     

PEOPLE & POINTS

正91-YEAR-OLD GRANDMA HELPS POOR STUDENTS Wu Litian, a retired teacher of pingtan, an old art form that combines singing and storytelling, lost her way in a railway station recently. When the police found the91-year-old and took her home, they found the words "Giving will reap the greatest harvest" pinned on her door and, subsequently, discovered her story.