1. Granary in the Desert

WEST of Hami in Sinkiang, be-tween the towering Tienshan Mountains and the trackless Gobi Desert, lies Fire Stone Spring. Thirteen years ago it was a bleak white expanse of wind, salt and alkali.

Author: WANG CHEH-CHUNG    Year 1966 Issue 6 PDF HTML

2. Progress in Sino-African Trade

CHINA'S direct trade with Africa began in the latter half of the second century when she first made contact with countries on the east coast of that continent. By the 15th century Chinese exports to

Author: WANG LIEH-WANG    Year 1964 Issue 7 PDF HTML

3. Shen Congwen and His Book on Ancient Costume

EVEN while he was a popular novelist and short-story writer, Shen Congwen had a passion for history and relics. He researched them as a hobby while he wrote his novel Frontier City and some 50 short

Author: WANG YARONG and WANG XU    Year 1980 Issue 11 PDF HTML

4. New Look of Laozi's Hometown

LUYI COUNTY, located in eastern Henan Province, covers an area of 1,200 square kilometers and has a population of 1.03 million. Two thousand years ago Laozi, a great philosopher, thinker and the

Author: WANG FUGUO & WANG WENTONG    Year 1996 Issue 3 PDF HTML

5. A Youthful Coal Mine

THE Baodian Coal Mine, under the Yankuang Group Co. Ltd., is the first large-scale, fully equipped mine designed and constructed without foreign assistance, and has an annual production of 3 million

Author: WANG BIN & WANG XUNYAN    Year 2000 Issue 9 PDF HTML

6. IN PRAISE OF OUR MOTHERLAND

Author: WANG HSIN    Year 1952 Issue 2 PDF HTML

7. HARNESSING "LION SHOAL"

FIFTY-FIVE miles downstream from Chungking, the Yangtze River is joined by one of its tributaries, the Lunghsi, which flows tempestuously along a steep course. At Shihtzetan, the constant roar of the

Author: WANG PO    Year 1955 Issue 10 PDF HTML

8. Combining Work and Study

VISITING the No. 3 Junior Middle School in Changke county, Honan province, late any afternoon, one comes upon groups of girls and boys in their early teens going about dozens of farm tasks. Some are

Author: WANG TI    Year 1958 Issue 7 PDF HTML

9. Pushing Back the Desert Sands

STANDING at the mouth of one of the main passes through the mountains from the north, the town of Yulin in north Shensi province was once an important fortress on the Great Wall. At the approach of

Author: WANG YUNG    Year 1959 Issue 12 PDF HTML

10. Seeds of Friendship

I HAD long heard about the tree which in China goes by the name of mien chieh - meaning Burmese eggplant - and the stories connected with it. But only last July, when I visited Kaochou county in

Author: WANG YUN    Year 1961 Issue 5 PDF HTML