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Sang Lei: Specially-recruited Teacher in Deep Mountains

February 14, 2017 15:16

“When you look up, you see mountains, but when you look down, you also see mountains,” declares Sang Lei. This is the environment around Pengdang Wanquan Elementary School in Yunnan Province, where Sang has been working as a specially-recruited teacher for nine years.

Elephant S.O.S.

February 14, 2017 15:24

In the Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture is the Xishuangbanna National Nature Reserve in southern Yunnan Province.

Universal Two-Child Policy: Smiles and New Worries

February 14, 2017 15:27

On January 1, 2016, China officially abandoned the one-child policy, which had been in place in the country for more than three decades, in favor of a universal “two-child” era, allowing all married couples to have two children.

Cheers to Tourism

February 14, 2017 15:29

In the late 1980s, I visited a Western country for the first time, and still recall being struck by the cafes and bars along the streets and admiring the people spending their daytime leisure hours drinking beer and sipping coffee.

Hidden Tibetan Buddhism in the Palace Museum

February 14, 2017 15:34

The Palace Museum (Forbidden City), an imperial palace of the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties, is considered the pinnacle of Chinese palace architecture.

Mariinsky’s China Month

February 14, 2017 15:38

Shanghai embraced one of Russia’s greatest operas on October 18, 2016, when Valery Gergieve, considered an “Arts Tsar,” staged the classic Queen of Spades, a masterpiece of the Mariinsky Theater, at the Shanghai Grand Theater.

Yesterday’s Youth: Middle-school Students in the 1980s

February 14, 2017 16:21

For China, the 1980s was an era of many new introductions and concepts. During the decade, well-known photographer Ren Shulin visited many middle schools in Beijing to observe classes, witness student life during a transformative generation, and capture it all with his gentle, lyrical photographic language.