• Veteran Journalist Remembered for His Unique Insight on China
Tomorrow at the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in Beijing, hundreds of people from all walks of life will pay their last respects to a special Chinese son and life-long journalist. He is Israel Epstein (1915-2005), who died last Thursday in Beijing.
• Strindberg in China
An audience of hundreds of Chinese was conquered by one Swede who held them rapt in a 40-minute solo show. The man was Reine Brynolfsson from the Swedish Royal Dramatic Theater/ Elverket and the play, the powerful monologue Paralysie Generale.
• Eighty-five-year-old Model Li Jisheng
As soon as the recess bell rings, model Li Jisheng usually stretches out his arms and relaxes. The man with a high nose, wrinkled face and long gray beard then mingles with students and chats with them in the classroom.
• The Son Establishes His Own Footing
Artist and photographer, Li Xiaoke grew up looking up to his father as a role model. But growing in the shadow of a man such as Li Keran, a great modern master of traditional Chinese landscape ink and wash painting, brought its own peculiar pain.
• Life of a Teenage Dai Monk
Seventeen-year-old Ai Handi is a Dai monk living in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province. He described his story and daily life as both a monk and a student.
• Dancing to the Rhythm of a Silent World
Exceptional beauty, extraordinary grace and expert artistry are qualities that have taken Tai Lihua to dance the great stages of the world in more than 40 countries. If that were not exceptional enough, this is: Tai Lihua is completely deaf.
• An English-learning Policeman
Liu Wenli is a civil policeman in Beijing and the first bilingual policeman to receive the Advanced-level Oral English Certificate. He has also been selected as one of the relay runners for the Olympic Torch Delivery. His ambition is to master varieties of foreign languages and serve visitors from all around the world in 2008.
• China Celebrates Epstein's 90th Birthday
A colloquium for veteran journalist and writer Israel Epstein was held in Great Hall of the People on Wednesday in honor of his 90th birthday. The Polish-born Epstein has spent some 80 years in China.
• Silken Performance
Eighty-year-old Zhang Zhengming could have been a professional musician or a music professor, had he accepted the invitations which came his way in the early 1950s.
• Dead Chinese Artist Remembered
Chen Yifei, a well-known Chinese painter, fashion designer and film director, died at age 59 on Sunday morning in Shanghai. He is remembered nationwide as not only an active artist-entrepreneur but also as a special witness to the friendly relationship between China and the United States.
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