1. MY LAST MEETINGS WITH MEI LAN-FANG

Mei Lan-fang, eminent Peking Opera artist, deputy to the National People's Congress and president of the Chinese Academy of Traditional Drama, died of a heart ailment on August 8 in Peking, at the

Author: TIEN HAN    Year 1961 Issue 10 PDF HTML

2. Harbin's Industry Helps the Farm

ON the vast and fertile plains of Heilungkiang province in Northeast China are grown a sizable proportion of the country's wheat, soya beans, kaoliang and maize. But in the past industries serving

Author: HAN WEN-YI and WANG TIEN-YIN    Year 1961 Issue 10 PDF HTML

3. The Sleeping Earth Awakens

YOU can knock down a roebuck with a stick and catch fish with a ladle, and the pheasants fly right into your pot." That's the way the peasants used to describe the richness of the huge prairie, with

Author: TIEN TIEN    Year 1960 Issue 11 PDF HTML

4. TOURING HSISHUANGPANNA

EARLY this year I visited the Hsishuangpanna Tai Autonomous Chou on the southernmost border of Yunnan province. Although in Peking snowflakes were already whirling, in subtropical Hsishuangpanna the

Author: TIEN TIEN    Year 1962 Issue 7 PDF HTML

5. GREAT HALL OF THE PEOPLE PEKING

Author: Photos by Tien Tien    Year 1960 Issue 1 PDF HTML

6. Jen Kuo-tung and the Bumper Crop County

CHAOYUAN county is in Heilungkiang, most northern of China's provinces. Everyone in China knows its name because its 1952 harvest surpassed that of the year before by almost 100 per cent - and the

Author: TIEN LIU    Year 1953 Issue 6 PDF HTML

7. Life Begins At 62

FOR a man of my years, there can be no greater blessing than to recapture youth. I am 66 and a railway construction engineer. Up to the liberation, in 1949, my whole working life was a series of

Author: LAN TIEN    Year 1953 Issue 6 PDF HTML

8. Better Books for Children

"IT'S more difficult to writebooks for children than for grown-ups, but it is far more rewarding."These words of Chang Tien-yi, author of a great number of children's books, typify the attitude of

Author: TIEN TAO    Year 1955 Issue 2 PDF HTML

9. A Tractor Station Starts Work

LAST SPRING, I went down to a state tractor station that had been established a year earlier near the Dawn Collective Farm in the outskirts of Hailung, Liaoning province, in northeast China. It was a

Author: TIEN CHING    Year 1955 Issue 3 PDF HTML

10. Seventy Years Young

OLD readers of China Reconstructs may remember my name. In 1953 this magazine published a story I wrote, "Life Begins at 62". It told of how, after decades of frustration and disappointment for a

Author: LAN TIEN    Year 1958 Issue 4 PDF HTML