21. Sinkiang Notes

RECENTLY I spent a month and a half touring the 1,600,000 square kilometres of the Sinkiang Uighur Autonomous Region in the northwestern corner of our country. Travelling by jeep, we visited cities,

Author: CHOU LING-CHAO    Year 1961 Issue 6 PDF HTML

22. SINKIANG IN WATER-COLOUR

Author: Chou Ling-chao    Year 1961 Issue 6 PDF HTML

23. A HOME NEAR YOUR JOB

24-8-8-2-3 = ?This arithmetical problem in the daily lives of thousands of Shanghai residents is now on the way to solution. Of the 24 hours in a day, 8 are taken up by work, 8 in sleep, and roughly

Author: CHOU YUNG-KANG    Year 1961 Issue 11 PDF HTML

24. Peking's Telephones

TELEPHONES first appeared in Peking in 1900, when a small exchange was established by a foreigner. In 1903 the Empress Dowager Tzu-hsi had a private line installed from the Summer Palace to various

Author: CHOU TING-FANG    Year 1961 Issue 11 PDF HTML

25. HIGHER EDUCATION IN CHINA

CHINA'S modern higher education began at the end of the nineteenth century. After the gates of feudal China were burst open by the fire from British gunboats in the Opium War (1840-41), the country

Author: CHOU PEI-YUAN    Year 1963 Issue 2 PDF HTML

26. A Factory Born in Years of War

THE Changtien Insecticide Works serves agriculture in the coastal province of Shantung. Its growth in the sixteen years since it began as a small workshop during the War of Liberation, when some of

Author: CHOU TSO-HUI    Year 1963 Issue 7 PDF HTML

27. MASS VACCINATION AGAINST POLIO

DURING the past three years over 20,000,000 Chinese children under seven years of age have been given free oral vaccination against poliomyelitis. All the attenuated live polio vaccine (live

Author: KU FANG-CHOU    Year 1963 Issue 7 PDF HTML

28. A Famous Bamboo Garden

THE PARK of Wangchianglou (Pavilion Overlooking a River), located on the Chin River in the eastern suburb of Chengtu in the western province of Szechuan, is literally a world of bamboo. Once the

Author: CHOU TSU-YU    Year 1963 Issue 9 PDF HTML

29. MA CHUN - Third-Century Mechanical Engineer

One of the most ancient forms of Chinese irrigation equipment still in use today is the "dragon's backbone" water lift. Though less efficient than modern electrified pumps which are now replacing it,

Author: CHOU SHIH-TEH    Year 1964 Issue 8 PDF HTML

30. THE PEKING SYMPOSIUM

When 367 scientists from 44 countries and regions in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Oceania gathered in the 1964 Peking Symposium from August 21 to 31, a new precedent was set in the history of

Author: CHOU PEI-YUAN    Year 1964 Issue 11 PDF HTML