Origins of the Names of Chinese Ethnic Minorities

<正>Achang The Achang ethnic minority was called"Echang"in ancient Chinese documents,albeit with no consistency in how the name was written.But this is not what ...     

A Special Dream of a Korean Couple

<正>What is the life like for a family with 13 disabled children? A Canadian-Korean couple, Zheng Ande and Zheng Zhuli, have such a special family full of love w...     

China Through the Movies： A Montage of Cinematic Images --The 17th Beijing Student Film Festival Text by Chen Dingbo

1895, when the Lumiere brothers unveiled their short movie of a train arriving at a station,audiences were practically scared out of their seats by its veracity. Since that time,     

Tibet Implementing Essential Medicines SYstem

On the eve of the official opening of the ASEAN Free Trade Zone, the Yunnan sections of international highways--for example the Kunming-Bangkok （Thailand） Road, the Kunming-Hanoi （Vietnam） Road and the Kunming-Mandalay-Myitkyina （Burma） Road--have all achieved the status of high-grade highways.     

ALLabout Yushu

<正>At 7:49 a.m.,on 14 April 2010,a 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck Yushu County in the Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Qinghai Province(The epicenter is calculated to be latitude 33.1°north and longitude 96.7°east).     

THE ELE GANCE OF QUYI——The Fourth Quyi Showcase of Chinese Ethnic Minority Groups

The history and tradition of Quyi （storytelling with music and periormance） are among the longest and most profound of China＇s folk art forms. Having evolved over centuries and centuries from folk oral literature and singing, Quyi is the catch-all name of various ＂art forms of talking and singing＂ in China. For millennia Quyi has been the vehicle by which Chinese people of whatever ethnic group have expressed their way of life and revealed their inner feelings.     

THE FIRST,THE TOP,THE LEADING,THE MOST——Garze HAS THEM ALL

The first regional ethnic autonomous prefecture in China
The People＇s Government of Xikang Tibetan Autonomous Region was founded on November 24, 1950. The first regional ethnic autonomous power after the founding of People＇s Republic of China, it was later restructured as a prefecture. Sangjiyuexi （Tianbao） was its chairman, with Xiakedaodeng, Awangjiacuo and Luosangqinba serving as vice-chairmen. Of all the 28 places on the regional committee,