1. Living in Peking

THE great landmarks of old Peking remain. The majesty of proportion and plan, the walls, the lakes, the architectural marvels of palaces and temples are still there. So is the quiet away from the

Author: LAO SHEH    Year 1952 Issue 5 PDF HTML

2. A WRITER SPEAKS OF WRITING

EVERYONE has heard of our watchword, "Let a hundred flowers bloom". It is meant to bring China's arts and literature to full development, to encourage originality and creativeness. A year and a half

Author: LAO SHEH    Year 1957 Issue 11 PDF HTML

3. PEKING After 10 YEARS

IT IS TEN YEARS this month since Peking was liberated.What changes those ten years have brought to our city! Its ancient beauty has been preserved, renovated, made more lovely. Beauties that were

Author: LAO SHEH    Year 1959 Issue 2 PDF HTML

4. The Philanthropist

The first English translation of a story written in the 1930s.WHAT Mrs. Wang disliked most was to have people call her Mrs. Wang. She always referred to herself as Miss Mu Feng-chen and liked others

Author: LAO SHEH    Year 1959 Issue 8 PDF HTML

5. SKETCHBOOK

Author: A LAO    Year 1982 Issue 1 PDF HTML

6. The Comrade

IT HAPPENED one summer during the anti-Japanese war. Chiang Kai-shek would not resist Japanese aggression; instead, he trained his guns on our Communist-led New Fourth Army to keep us from fighting

Author: SHEH YI-PING    Year 1961 Issue 12 PDF HTML

7. Master of Gongbi Painting

TRADITIONAL CHINESE painting has many styles, but until recently one of them, gongbi flower-and-bird painting, was seldom used. Characterized by fine brush work, close attention to detail and bright

Author: LAO DI    Year 1991 Issue 7 PDF HTML

8. Chinese Contemporary Watercolor Painting

No longer the domain of elementary school art classes, watercolors have won a following among accomplished Chinese painters.WHEN WATERCOLORS first came to China at the beginning of this century,

Author: LAO DI    Year 1994 Issue 8 PDF HTML

9. The Disquieting Enchantment of Snow

SNOW can be just as scary as it is lovely to look at. That was, at least, my impression upon arriving in Harbin for a two-day trip to Erlongshan ski resort, as part of a group of journalists from

Author: LAO YI    Year 2006 Issue 5 PDF HTML

10. I Grow Younger in Years

I AM 101 years old. People call me "Hundred-Year-Old Man". I began learning to read when I was 98 years old and my first book was Chairman Mao's Serve the People. I learned to write when I was 99 and

Author: MA LAO-ERH    Year 1970 Issue 8 PDF HTML