Who Is Singing in Spring？

The concert's promotional material, which reads "Who is singing in Spring?" is partly designed by friends. JIANG Shilong's friends call him Lao Yao or "old demon." He has a band called Xishan Laoyao, "West Mountain Old Demon," which he started with a few friends in Beijing after graduating from college, When the other members left, Lao Yao continued     

Ploughing Native Soil for Fine Arts

AN exhibition entitledChinese Fine Arts Todayincluded more than 650works by 300 artists.The show, intended toshowcase China's young artists,new art concepts and a fresh per-ception of contemporary life, isbeing held at the ChinaMillennium Altar in Beijing. Theexhibits cover a great variety ofart forms from diverse schoolsand styles, including traditionalChinese painting, oil painting,watercolors, print, sculpture, pho-tography, video and other experi-mental arts. Many young emerg-     

Love Goes Beyond National Boundaries

On March 26, 2003, four girls of different nationalities made a special trip to Beijing, and went straight to the Tongzhou District Care Center where they had volunteered to work with disabled orphans.Sunny Lee Yang, Karine Teon, Ashwini Rao and Arisa lizuka are from the USA, France, India and Japan respectively. They are all students at the Singapore International School. In February this year, they saw a report on the Tongzhou District Care Center on CCTV's "China Reports." They were all so deeply moved by the backgrounds of the members of this special "family." that all four girls decided to cancel their social practice in Vietnam and come to China instead.     

The ABC of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Traditional Chinese medicine falls under three categories:plant, mineral and animal. The plant category is the largest.The Shennong Materia Medica, published between the firstand second centuries, is the earliest materia medica extant,and lists 365 medical ingredients. The Newly RevisedMateria Medica of the Tang Dynasty (618-907) that lists 884