1. Sister Festival Among the Miaos

SHIDONG, a small river town in Taijiang county, eastern Guizhou province, is a secluded, tranquil place amid the hill-country of the Miao nationality. But during the annual local Sister Festival,

Author: XIE JUN    Year 1987 Issue 10 PDF HTML

2. Jingpo Song and Dance Festival

THE 100,000-strong Jingpo nationality lives mainly in the mountain areas of the Dehong Dai and Jingpo autonomous prefecture of China's southwestern Yunnan province. Last spring, I made a special trip

Author: XIE JUN    Year 1988 Issue 8 PDF HTML

3. Beautiful, Ancient Dayan Town

THE ANCIENT town of Dayan is located in northwestern Yunnan province on a plateau rising 2,100 meters above sea level, between the towering, snow-capped Yulong Mountains and the surging Jinsha River.

Author: XIE JUN    Year 1988 Issue 12 PDF HTML

4. Beijing Cloisonné Burner

Cloisonné, a famous Beijing handicraft, is said to have originated a thousand years ago, becoming popular In the reign of Jing Tal (1450-1457) of the Ming Dynasty and beginning to be exported in the

Author: Xie Jun    Year 1990 Issue 9 PDF HTML

5. Hongdou Fashions Clothe the World

Staff reporter XIE JUN visits successful entrepreneur Zhou Yueting in his "love pea" clothing factory in Jiangsu Province.LOCATED ON the shore of scenic Lake Tai in Jiangsu Province, Hongdou Garment

Author: XIE JUN    Year 1993 Issue 2 PDF HTML

6. Celebrating with the Yi Nationality

Staff reporter and photographer XIE JUN attended the Yi Flower-Arranging Festival, took most of the pictures you see and describes the occasion.THE EIGHTH day of the second month of the old Chinese

Author: XIE JUN    Year 1993 Issue 4 PDF HTML

7. Chengde, Famous Even Now

Author: Xie Jun    Year 1996 Issue 12 PDF HTML

8. Lisu Nationality 'Sword-Pole' Festival

PICTURESQUE Tengchong county, 500 km west of Kunming, capital of Yunnan province, is the home of China's Lisu nationality. Last spring I went there to attend the Lisus' unique Sword-Pole Festival,

Author: STAFF REPORTER XIE JUN    Year 1989 Issue 8 PDF HTML

9. Our Cover Picture

ON THE FRONT cover of this issue is a picture of a young Yugur woman, taken in the summer of 1989 on a visit to Sunan Yugur Autonomous County in Gansu Province. The beauty of the landscape surprised

Author: Staff reporter Xie Jun    Year 1991 Issue 11 PDF HTML

10. Costumes Fit for a Festival

The many branches of the Yi nationality wear such exquisitely wrought costumes that they deserve - and get - their very own festival.ON THE twenty-eighth day of the third lunar month (usually at the

Author: staff reporter XIE JUN    Year 1993 Issue 11 PDF HTML