21. The Gaur, Wild Ox of Yunnan

A bellow resounds in the early morning deep in the Hsishuang Panna mountains of Yunnan province. A large animal with a glistening brown-black coat races along a stream in the heavy forest. It has a

Author: YANG LAN    Year 1977 Issue 6 PDF HTML

22. A Commune Advances Through Struggle

LAST spring a severe drought menaced most of the north China countryside. But backed by superior irrigation works, the 3,300 hectares of winter wheat in the Chiliying People's Commune in Honan

Author: YANG CHUN    Year 1977 Issue 7 PDF HTML

23. 'Proud Poplar', Yang Kai-hui's Story in Dance

THE STORY of Yang Kai-hui, a great communist fighter and wife of Mao Tsetung is the theme of a new dance drama entitled Proud Poplar created and performed by the Song and Dance Troupe of the General

Author: Sung Yang    Year 1977 Issue 12 PDF HTML

24. The Magic Artistry of Painted Pottery

AMONG the art which has come down to us from China's neolithic age, the painted pottery is some of the most aesthetically pleasing. The potters of the Yangshao culture, which existed about five to

Author: YANG HUNG    Year 1978 Issue 10 PDF HTML

25. A Cultural Giant

THE late writer Kuo Mo-jo was, with Lu Hsun (1881-1936), one of the two main founders of the new literature following the May 4th Movement of 1919. After liberation he became an esteemed leader in

Author: CHOU YANG    Year 1978 Issue 12 PDF HTML

26. The Chariot in China

THE chariot was already in use in China in the Shang dynasty (16th-11th century B.C.) for war and hunting. Luxuriously-decorated chariots were a mark of rank of the nobility. For a long time, though

Author: YANG HUNG    Year 1978 Issue 12 PDF HTML

27. Memories of Bethune

I WAS one of Dr. Norman Bethune's three bodyguards in the spring of 1939 when he worked in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei border area, an anti-Japanese base led by the Communist Party. Memories of him are

Author: YANG YAOFA    Year 1979 Issue 11 PDF HTML

28. Scenes of Tang Court Life

A YOUNG court lady in a light green skirt with a vermilion silk shawl over her shoulders stands looking up at a bird in flight. Bored with the dull life at court she seems to be yearning for freedom,

Author: YANG HONG    Year 1979 Issue 11 PDF HTML

29. Mechanization of Agriculture

OLD China had no farm machinery, let alone an industry to produce it. After liberation in 1949, implements such as a new-type plow and a horse-drawn harvester began to be made here and small farm

Author: YANG LIGONG    Year 1981 Issue 8 PDF HTML

30. Sketchbook

Author: Yang Zaosan    Year 1981 Issue 9 PDF HTML