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ISSUE 59 feature 2016.5 34 主管单位 SUPERVISOR THE GRASS 重庆市商务委员会 FOR EVERY Chongqing Commerce Commission EVENTUALITY 主办 SPONSOR 重庆市外商投资促进中心 Chongqing Investment Promotion Association 编委会主任 DIRECTOR OF EDITORIAL COMMITTEE 熊雪 Xue Xiong 编委会副主任 VICE DIRECTOR OF EDITORIAL COMMITTEE 李谦 Li Qian 编委 EDITORIAL COMMISSARY 杨来科 Yang Laike 董德红 Dong Dehong 副总编 ASSISTANT EDITORS IN CHIEF 傅嘉康 Fu Jiakang CHECK OUT 叶冠兰 Ye Guanlan 张世樵 Zhang Shiqiao 编辑 EDITORS CHONGQING 亚得乐 Alexander Middleton 杨雯 Yang Wen Photos of Secrets of Chongqing Light Rail of 王旖旎 Wang Yini 蒙雨潇 Meng Yuxiao the previous issue are shot by Liao Lianjun 廖联俊 艺术指导 & 设计 ART DIRECTION & DESIGN STUDIO EN | DARE TO ENVISION | studioen.us OCT 2016 电话 TEL departments ACTIVE ENGAGEMENT OF THE SCHOOL 86.23.89019547 89019176 COMMUNITY is vitally important to all 投稿邮箱 CONTRIBUTION EMAIL CHONGQING-ING CULTURE schools and there is no doubt that [email protected] YCIS Chongqing is incredibly fortu- 网址 WEBSITES 7 CQ Brief-News Round-Up 24 The Characters and Etymons About chongqingcurrents.com nate to have a supportive, creative 14 Out & About Currency & Wealth chongqinglifeguide.com and industrious parent body! This was law firms to travel agents; from dentists to gymnastics for kids –we had information 26 Chongqing in Camera cqipa.com TRAVELING clearly on display during the outstand- people need to help them enjoy life in this vibrant city. The YCIS staff band played an investincq.com 28 Chongqing Art Scene ing ‘Check Out Chongqing’ community array of fine rock and roll tunes while guests enjoyed international cuisine, games, and 外籍人士俱乐部 (读者俱乐部) 16 Discovering Yuzhong Lower City 32 Poetry event held on our YCIS campus. activities. It was a festive mood for all! CHONGQING INT'L CLUB (Readers' Club) 36 Voices from Old Chungking WeChat ID: CQINTERCLUB/ NIWAWAEVA EATING & DRINKING 法律顾问 LEGAL ADVISOR EVENTS & LISTING On Saturday, September 24th, the Lucky Draw raffles were held throughout the event with prizes donated from our 贾锐 Jia Rui 18 Cook Bamboo School welcomed over 600 parents, wonderful vendors! Besides the fun that was had, the school community raised 6756 印刷 PRINTING 21 Take Away Time LIVING teachers, YCIS staff, students and RMB for the Seeds of Hope charity project, something YCIS Chongqing contributes to 重庆市巍承印务有限公司 Casa Maya visitors to an event that featured 53 every year. Chongqing Weicheng Printing Company 重庆市江北区嘉玲三村272号 vendors, representing a broad range of 272 Jia Ling San Cun, Jiangbei, Chongqing services from around Chongqing. From Without question, special thanks goes to the entire Parent Organization team, all language schools, to yoga studios; volunteers, sponsors, school staff, and the school Student Council for their efforts in ON THE COVER from restaurants to hairdressers; from bringing great opportunities and fun in Chongqing to all in the YCIS community! THE CITY OF PEACE 和平之城 by Zhou Shunkai 周顺恺 CQ Currents / LIVING 3 PRACTICING ART One Belt One Road and Chongqing CQ BRIEF- NEWS AT YCIS ROUND-UP As a key part of ’s game-changing initiative for Eurasia and North Africa, Chongqing is set to generate a wide range of new opportunities for international business AT YCIS CHONGQING, WE ENCOURAGE STUDENTS TO EN- The students of Year 10 create series of Realistic Observational JOY, APPRECIATE, AND CREATE ART. In this years’ art class, drawings. They use observational drawing techniques in real- WHAT IS ONE BELT ONE ROAD? students will look at and talk about major works/styles of art, istic challenges. By simply looking at the subject and drawing as well as create their own masterpieces using the Elements what is presented to the eye, the student gains solid percep- One Belt One Road (OBOR / 一带一路) is an abbreviation of the Chinese project name: of Art and the Principles of Design, and learn about different tual skills and hand-eye coordination, as well as eliminating The silk road economic belt, and the 21st century maritime silk road. techniques, mediums, and art history. flawed preconceptions about the appearance of objects. It is an initiative which was launched by President Xi Jinping in 2013, to focus on The students of Year 7-8 have been practicing shading tech- The students of Year 11 created the illustrations, depicting a improving andcreating new trading routes, links andbusiness opportunities with . niques. They are taught to understand how shading works and series of images where animals merge with the natural world. begin to draw the illusion of depth (also known as three-di- The trees sprout into the silhouettes of foxes or squirrels. They The concept envisions an economic belt which roughly follows the route of the ancient mensional reality.) They create values using a graphite pencil looked at works by Alfred Bashar. The students practiced vari- silk routes, and improved maritime infrastructure to create a new ‘maritime silk road’. It of their choice. ous line strokes and cross contour lines. aims to include over 60 countries in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

The students of Year 9 have been working on the human The students of Year 12/13 work on the observational graphite In spite of the name ‘one belt, one road’, it is a multi-route concept which brings in anatomy fundamentals and they started with the basic head drawings. They use jewelry as a subject matter. The students networks of connectivity in trade, investment, finance, and flows of tourists and students. planes and face features. This can be enjoyable, but it is better have chosen a piece of jewelry and started with a draft sketch. if you know how. While our bodies add dynamism to artworks, Now they are working on applying a colour and showing tone, China has pledged a fund of USD 40 billion to help finance the hard infrastructure needed the face is filled with expression—the very soul of our being. tints and shades. to will the concept into reality. Learning to bring that out starts with learning how to draw a basic human face. Go, young artists! As Chongqing is a key hub for the project it will bring new and excitingcommercial opportunities. CQ Currents / LIVING CHONGQING-ING / CQ BRIEF-NEWS ROUND-UP 5

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Southeast Asia. As an important node connecting the Maritime Silk Road and the Silk Road ONE BELT: In a December 2014 reportOpinions Economic Belt and with its strong influence OUR EFFORTS, JUST HOPE YOU CAN THE SILK ROAD ECONOMICBELT on Implementing the Belt and Road on the River Economic Belt, Strategy and Building the Yangtze Chongqing will invest more to further This land-based set of routes includes Economic Belt issued by the Chongqing improve its infrastructure in future. a “Eurasian land bridge” – alogistics municipal government in December 2014, chain from China’s east coastall the way investment by the municipal government Chongqing will be more to WesternEurope, and a number of in infrastructure projects will reach appealing to foreign economiccorridors connecting China Rmb1.2 trillion by 2020. Among these, the entrepreneurs and companies withMongolia and Russia, central Asia Chongqing-Xinjiang-Europe international andSouth-East Asia. railway will be the main Eurasian land The 2016 Chongqing International Talent bridge between and Europe. Innovation Entrepreneurship Symposium GET ONE ROAD: The railway is also known as the Yuxinou will be inaugurated at the Chongqing THE 21ST-CENTURYMARITIME SILK ROAD railway, an acronym for Chinese characters International Expo Center from Nov 28 to Yu (which stands for Chongqing), Xin 29, with the aim of attracting highly-skilled This is a series of sea routes which runs (Xinjiang) and Ou (Europe). individuals from home and abroad to start west from China’s east coast businesses in Chongqing. Apart from the Yuxinou railway, goods may VISA to Europe through the South China Seaand also be exported from Chongqing to Europe The symposium will be held in Chongqing the Indian Ocean. by rail-sea intermodal transportation for the second time, and will be themed connecting with the Maritime Silk Road for around talent and entrepreneurship. DEVELOPING WESTERN CHINA the onward journey to Europe. For example, It is aimed at providing a platform for goods may be sent to Shenzhen’s Yantian returnees and foreign experts to start The aims of the OBOR initiative include: Port on the Chongqing-Shenzhen Railway, businesses in communications, commercial where they will be loaded onto ships bound design, marketing, production and capital E A R LY Developing prosperity forunderdeveloped for Rotterdam via the Maritime Silk Road. management. parts of China,particularly in the west of the The whole journey takes about 27 days. country; The Chongqing- Railway now An innovation entrepreneurship competition under construction will run southwestwards as part of the event is also being launched Developing new opportunities forChina to to Guiyang. From there, goods will be to encourage new entrepreneurs with partner and co-operate withthe various exported via Kunming and Ruili to Sittwe innovative projects to settle in Chongqing. countries along the routes,many of which port in Myanmar, where they will be loaded The competition will tour the world, visiting are developing countries; onto ships and transported to Rotterdam America, Canada, Australia, Singapore and via the Maritime Silk Road. The whole Europe, before returning to China. Only 50 OUR SERVICES INCLUDE 我们的服务有 Increased integration, connectivityand journey is expected to take just over 30 of the best projects out of thousands of economic development along bothroutes. days. entries can make it through to the final in China Z Visa 外国人中国工作签证 Chongqing, where they will later attend the China Z Visa Extension 续签中国工作签证 Besides relying on the “One Belt, high-level symposium to seek investment. CHONGQING: S1 Visa 家属签证 A KEY OBOR TRANSPORT HUB One Road” strategy to promote port Business Invitation 商务邀请 infrastructure and land-sea intermodal Entrepreneurs with ambitions to expand in As the transport hub of the Silk Road transportation, Chongqing also aims to Chongqing can get more information about China Driving License 中国驾照 economic belt and Yangtze economic belt, open international trade routes to South the competition and the symposium on its CHONGQING INVESTMENT Chongqing connects China’s eastern and Asia and Southeast Asia and integrate with official website: www.liangjiang.gov.cn. They western regions with European markets. the China-Indochina Peninsula economic can also sign up for the competition by PROMOTION ASSOCIATION 重庆市外商投资促进中心 It functions as an inland shipping centre corridors. Chongqing will strengthen e-mailing: [email protected] before 6th floor, Foreign Trade Building, via the Yangtze River and is expected co-operation in the construction of the Oct 30. 重庆市江北区建新北路65号 to expand as a national logistics hub as Chongqing-Kunming Railway and the new No.65 Jianxin North Road, 外经贸大厦6楼 a result of OBOR. Rail-sea intermodal Chongqing-Guiyang Railway, and encourage Jiangbei , Chongqing 联 系 电 话：023-8901 9547 transportation connecting Chongqing its car and motorcycle manufacturing, Tel：023-8901 9547 / 152 2332 6449 152 2332 6449 and the “Maritime Silk Road” also opens chemical and energy enterprises to expand Email：[email protected] 电 子 邮 箱：[email protected] international trade routes to South Asia and to South Asia and Southeast Asia.

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THE 11TH CMIA, 2016 THEME OF THE ANNUAL MEETING - high importance to developing trade in directly under the Central Government WAS HELD ON DEVELOPMENT OF TRADE IN SERVICES services. Obvious progress has been made in the central and western part of China, UNDER AGAINST THE BACKGROUND in the five special areas, namely, cross- Chongqing is an important strategic OF “MADE-IN-CHINA 2025” PLAN AND boundary e-commerce, exhibition and strongpoint in implementing the full-scale 24-25 SEPTEMBER “INTERNET PLUS” transcation of bonded goods, bonded development program for the western trade, Internet-based cloud computation regions as Chongqing has prominent and big data, regional advantages and important IN CHONGQING cross-boundary strategic position, and that Chongqing settlement, and plays a unique and important role in facilitation of the national regional development and investment and pattern for opening-up as it is located funding. at the intersection of the “Belt and Road Initiative” and the Yangtze River IN 2015, THE STATE Economic Belt. Based on learning and COUNCIL ISSUED implementing the spirit of the speech MADE-IN-CHINA delivered by Xi Jinping during his 2025 PLAN and the inspection of Chongqing, members of the Guiding Opinions annual meeting of the advisory body of on Promoting the the mayor of Chongqing discussed topics “Internet Plus” of “Made-in-China 2025” and “developing Action Plan. It trade in services under the background of was proposed in ‘Internet plus’”and obtained results from these documents such discussion. Such results would be of s global economic integration is that efforts should be made to“expedite immediate significance for Chongqing to Aaccelerating, trade in services plays the coordinated development of speed up its efforts in upgrading industrial an increasingly important role in China’s manufacturing and service, promote structure and exploring new point of national economy. Developing trade in the innovations in business models and economic growth, and would play a services is an important focus in China’s types of business, and drive the shift from positive role of building Chongqing into an efforts to expand opening-up and adjust production-oriented manufacturing to important national modern manufacturing economic structure. It is clearly pointed service-oriented manufacturing”, “further industry base, an important domestic out in the report of the 18th National integrate and develop the Internet and functional financial center, a center of Congress of the Communist Party of all economic and social fields , and make making innovations in the western part of China that “developing service trade, the new types of business based on China, and an opening-up highland in the and promoting balanced development the Internet become the new force of inland areas of China. of foreign trade” should be regarded driving economic growth.” These new as one of the important tasks of proposals put forward new requirements developing China’s future economic and as well as new thinking and solutions for social development. In February 2015, developing trade in services under the Several Opinions of the State Council on New Normal. With sound manufacturing Accelerating the Development of Trade in industry and solid basis of information Services was issued, which pointed out the industry, Chongqing has the conditions specific direction and paths of developing of developing trade in services by trade in services. The recent years have integrating it with other industries. witnessed the annual growth rate of more During his inspection of Chongqing in than 25 percent in trade in services in early 2016, Chinese president Xi Jinping Chongqing, a city which has attached pointed out that as the only municipality 8 CHONGQING-ING / CQ BRIEF-NEWS ROUND-UP 9 CHONGQING -ING ONE KEY AREA THAT IS GROWING FASTER THAN EXPECTED IS TOURISM. CQ, tourism WHAT OPPORTUNITIES DO YOU SEE mixed commercial-residential development CHONGQING OFFERING PHILIPPINE and OBOR in . I hope that these COMPANIES IN REGARDS TO THE ONE business ventures will be a gateway BELT ONE ROAD INITIATIVE? for other Philippine investors to come to Chongqing. On the Chongqing side, Philippine companies should take Republic of the Philippines Consul General Chinese business has been making brisk advantage of new markets that have Ms OLIVIA PALALA trade with the Philippines, particularly in become more accessible due to China’s by alexander middleton discusses CQ, tourism and OBOR exporting motorcycles and electronics. OBOR initiative. While many Philippine companies are focused on traditional WHAT ARE THE KEY AREAS IN WHICH markets, notably the US as the largest WHY DID THE PHILIPPINES SELECT CHONGQING AS A LOCATION FOR ITS WESTERN CHONGQING ORGANISATIONS AND economy in the world, I believe there are AS CHINA MISSION, AND HOW DO YOU SEE THE SITUATION HAVING EVOLVED SINCE THEN? PHILIPPINE COUNTERPARTS ARE benefits in exploring trade options with WHILE THE COOPERATING AND HOW DO YOU SEE other countries that lie along the OBOR CHONGQING There were several factors which led to the opening of the Philippine Consulate General in BROAD PLAN THIS DEVELOPING? routes. Especially because of the increased TAKES ITS Chongqing in 2008. However, one of the more significant considerations was Chongqing’s connectivity that is being facilitated by the “ status as a municipality directly controlled by the central government. This was a signal One key area that is growing faster than initiative. Chongqing companies, being in PLACE AT THE for other countries to see Chongqing as the pivotal city in China’s Go West strategy. With HAS BEEN expected is tourism. More and more Chinese the centre of this logistical hub can help in HEART OF OBOR, hindsight it was an excellent decision. tourists are coming to the Philippines, this regard. WRITTEN, THE particularly tour groups on charter flights MS OLIVIA PALALA HOW WOULD YOU CHARACTERISE THE EVOLUTION OF CHONGQING’S ECONOMY OVER SMALL DETAILS to popular beach destinations. Chinese HOW DO YOU SEE CHONGQING ORGANISA- TALKS ABOUT THE THE PAST FIVE YEARS? and Philippine travel companies have had TIONS POTENTIALLY COOPERATING WITH great success satisfying the western China PHILIPPINE COUNTERPARTS TO DEVELOP MUNICIPALITY’S The remarkable GDP growth of Chongqing got everyone’s attention. The Chongqing ARE STILL demand for tropical island destinations. OPPORTUNITIES FROM OBOR? POSITION WITHIN economy has veen growing massively, not only in its traditional sectors such as From what I see, I can only speculate that manufacturing but it has also been going up the value chain with ventures in high tech BEING FILLED visitors travelling from Chongqing to the While it is hard to see how things will THE CHINESE industries and peripheral services. Chongqing’s economic indicators such debt rates - the OUT. Philippines will increase. develop in this broad context, Chongqing AND EAST ASIAN lowest in China - also indicates that its growth has come from real valuable and profitable organisations can do well acting as bridges economic development rather than from debt and the creation of elements such as ghost WHAT PARTICULAR SUCCESSES HAVE into China and the rest of the countries ECONOMY. shopping centres and empty apartment complexes as seen in some other cities. COME FROM THE RELATIONSHIP WITH along the OBOR highway. I think what CHONGQING? makes these times so exciting is that these HOW WOULD YOU CHARACTERISE THE BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE unprecedented economic developments PHILIPPINES OVER THE PAST DECADE? For me, the key success is the travel trade will lead to business relationships we can I spoke about above. Not only does this now only speculate about. While the broad I would describe it as the Philippines have a proverbial foot in the door. Business people help foster mutual economic activity, but plan has been written, the small details are in the Philippines are already quite familiar with doing business in cities in coastal and also helps to create first-hand mutual still being filled out. southern China. However, it was only recently that Philippine companies went into major understanding and overcome negative ventures in Chongqing, such as the SM shopping centre in Yubei or the Robinson Land’s images occasionally projected in the media.

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I AM ALSO WHAT DO YOU SEE AS BEING WHAT ARE YOUR PREDICTIONS FOR THE FUTURE THE BIGGEST OPPORTUNITIES DEVELOPMENT OF CHONGQING? HOW WILL THE PLEASED THAT FOR PHILIPPINE COMPANIES PHILIPPINES’ ENGAGEMENT ALSO EVOLVE? IN CHONGQING IN THE NEXT WE HAVE DECADE? I think n this case the best predictors of what Chongqing will become are its people and its government policy. I CONTRIBUTED I think the Philippines can have seen and heard of deliberate steps the Chongqing make contributions in can government is taking on its road to economic success. IN SOME WAY make contributions in the The manufacturing industry will definitely remain a business process outsourcing strong suit, while higher value services will definitely TO THE RISE IN industry. Especially with play an increasingly larger role. Sound fiscal policies Chongqing entering the realms and political security will safeguard the economic CHONGQING of e-commerce, gross border growth of the city. online financial settlements, TOURISTS TO cloud computing, and the As regards how the Philippines will adapt this is internet of things, lots of back difficult to say, as market forces really control this as THE PHILIPPINES office operations and technical they do with any free economy. However, the Philippine support can be outsourced to government is aggressively promoting tourism to the Philippines as China may have a shortfall of human counter negative publicity, and in the long term the resources or talent in these areas. presence of the consulate here will lead to increasing interaction between the Philippines and Chongqing. A second opportunity we see is in healthcare - Filipino nurses and caregivers can be found in almost every WHAT DO YOU SEE AS BEING YOUR TEAM’S BIGGEST country in the world. China meanwhile needs to start SUCCESS SO FAR? thinking about provision of care for its growing elderly population to free up the time and productivity of its We have done much in the area of public diplomacy by YEAR OF shrinking younger population. organising major cultural events such as bringing ballet Philippines and an internationally acclaimed choir, the WHAT DO YOU SEE AS BEING THE BIGGEST Philippine Madrigal Singers to Chongqing to perform. OPPORTUNITY POTENTIAL PROBLEMS THAT PHILIPPINE COMPANIES MAY FACE IN CHONGQING? As I mentioned earlier, one of the biggest barriers is lack of familiarity and these cultural activities can go a MESSAGE FROM NEIL MCBURNEY Unfamiliarity with Chongqing and and with Chinese long way in promoting understanding and overcoming culture and language prevents lots of Philippines this. (WESTERN CO-PRINCIPAL) businesses from venturing into the municipality. THE START OF EVERY SCHOOL YEAR ALWAYS PRESENTS OP- However, this barrier of unfamiliarity is slowly being I am also pleased that we have contributed in some PORTUNITIES for members of our learning community. With ‘year of opportunity’, to build on the school’s strengths and eroded as Chongqing makes a name for itself in the way to the rise in Chongqing tourists to the Philippines nearly 400 students and over 150 staff, some meticulous plan- further develop into one of the regions premier international new world economy. in spite of the political situation. ning has been undertaken to ensure 2016-17 provides a year of schools. I am extremely impressed with the commitment and exploration and achievement. motivation of all our teachers and support staff. WHAT ARE THE BIGGEST OPPORTUNITIES THE HOW DO YOU SEE THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE OF PHILIPPINES OFFERS CHONGING COMPANIES IN CHONGQING IN BOTH ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL We have recruited a group of enthusiastic and highly experi- Congratulations to all students who completed the rigor- TERMS OF OUTBOUND INVESTMENT? TERMS? enced teachers to complement our existing team. The largest ous IGCSE programme. We are very proud of the results our influx of new staff is in the Secondary section as the school students obtained and the learning they gained over this two Demographics and other economic trends all point to Even the best economists can do little but make an aims to expand this programme. Two major developments this year course. They are now well prepared to complete the YCIS the Philippines continuing its vibrant economic growth educated guess about this. For my part I think the best year will be the CIS/NEASC/NCCT Accreditation and the IB Diploma in Year 12/13. Our graduating students are now finaliz- with more and more working age Filipinos entering the determinants of what Chongqing will become are its Diploma Authorization processes. In order to fulfil the accred- ing their university placements, which we will communicate to economy in the coming years. Telecommunications, people and government. From where I stand, the future itation and authorization requirements, YCIS has engaged in a you as their acceptances are finalised. We know that we have real estate and infrastructure, investments in the film of Chongqing looks bright and promising. Therefore, process of self-reflection, evaluating all aspects of the school’s prepared these fine young adults for the life challenges that industry, and other capital intensive projects are all summarising the immediate future of Chongqing operations and learning programme. Visiting teams of educa- await them. seen as key opportunities for overseas investors. I would say that it is rapid expansion, thriving and tors will provide invaluable feedback and recommendations growing. As a convergence zone for OBOR, it will that will form the basis for the development of the school’s We look forward, with great expectation, to another exciting become even busier. strategic direction. Consequently, we do view 2016-17 as the and productive year for all at YCIS Chongqing!

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southwestern chinese metropolis boosted by belt and road initiative THE ECONOMY OF SOUTHWEST CHINA'S CHONGQING MUNICIPALITY has been boosted bythe Belt and Road Initiative, which aims to connect China and other countries along the ancientland and maritime Silk Roads. "More than 80 percent of our exports Changes started in Chongqing as BETTER CONNECTION to Russia go through Yuxinou Rail. early as five years ago, when IT Railway transport savesmore than 30 companies like HP and Acerset up In 2013, China proposed the Belt and days on shipping, and cut logistical operations in the municipality. Road Initiative, which aims to build costs by $5 million a year," said a trade andinfrastructure network Chen Wei,vice president of Lifan. "These companies needed to connecting Asia with Europe and develop a convenient, time-saving Africa, along ancient trade routes. and cost-effective logistic pathto Chongqing has been one of the INDUSTRIAL UPGRADING send their products to global most active provinces to spearhead markets," said Yang Liqiong, director efforts to implement theinitiative. Chongqing is one of China's largest of the municipal logisticsoffice. laptop manufacturing bases. Every The Yuxinou Railway, along with This year, the Yuxinou (Chongqing- year, millions of laptopstravel through other transportation projects, Yangtze waterways and on railway Chongqing got a Yangtze River post office Xinjiang-Europe) Railway was has been expanded in capacity opened to connect Chongqingand transport to other parts of China and Madame Tussauds sets ecological standard tosupport business and trade to theoverseas market. It also makes Duisburg, which is close to Germany's along the new silk road. museum in September border with the Netherlands. about a third of cell phones in China, or A post office named after the Yangtze one sixth of the globaltotal, according Regular bus services have been opened River, China's longest, has attracted to an industrial forecast for this year. Madame Tussauds Wax Museum "Transportation arteries like Yuxinou from Chongqing to southeastern tourists since it opened in September. officially opened on September ended the logistical isolation of Asian countries.Chongqing spent 10 10th 2016 on Nanbin Lu, by the UK Chongqing from countriesalong "Logistics have figured rather Yangtze No 1 Post Office, located in billion yuan ($1.49 billion) to build Merlin group. Covering an area of the Belt and Road," said Zhang importantly in each and every step as the plateau township of Tanggula, the Guoyuan port on the Yangtze 2,000 square meters, the museum Jun, chairman of the board of a Chongqing builds a strongelectronics Golmud city, in northwest China's River.Rail, aviation and waterway features a typical array of more potassium company inKazakhstan. industry. Good transportation and Qinghai province, is the first transportation have diversified than 50 wax figures, including industrial infrastructure lured and kept one named after the river. logistical choices for businesses. Hollywood stars, sports figures and In August, Chongqing signed a contract strongcompanies here," said Guo. international celebrities. It is the first with the Kazakh company to jointly Since last month, a growing number "Inland areas like Chongqing used Trans-border e-commerce is also out& such museum in southwest China. build a fertilizerdistribution hub. of visitors to the plateau have stopped to be at the end of an international booming in Chongqing. Osell, an industrial division of labor.We have at the post office,which is located at "The hub will be used to distribute e-commerce platformheadquartered The museum was opened together with to wait for the resources to be the headquarters of the environmental fertilizers to southwestern provinces in in Chongqing, connects 190,000 the 1st phase of the Landmark Riverside transferred from developing countries, protection NGO Green River. China and alsoexported to Japan and small and medium sized Chinese Shopping Park and Museum Streets. to the coastalareas of China, and then about The Landmark Riverside Park is the Southeast Asian countries," Zhang said. companieswith more than 1.7 million inland," said Guo Jian, head of the largest shopping park on waterfront overseas retailers and buyers around China need 14 million tons of Chongqing municipal commission the world. In 2015, transactionsenabled in with entertainment, historic sites, ofeconomy and information. traditional local foods, international potassium chloride per year, half by Osell totaled over $5 billion. fashion show rooms, leisure and of which needs to be imported. "With improved infrastructure, we are Municipal authorities have chongqing tourism, home entertainment, art & "The hub would not have been in a better position to compete with pledged further efforts promoting creative life, and shopping areas. possible if not for the Yuxinou others and promotebusiness," he said. economic development. When it is completed with 1.5 million Railway network," he added. Lifan, a Chongqing-based motorcycle "Chongqing is working towards a square meters of waterfront park, it and automobile manufacturer, faster clearing of goods, smoothing includes The French Navy barracks, The saw a 20 percent growth insales out logistical bottlenecksand Madame Tussauds Museum, the London to the Russian market in last year, solving financing problems for Sealife, the rooftop Sky Bar Street, food despite cross-the-board sluggish companies," said Yang Liqiong. streets, 360 degree restaurants, Japan growth in the automarket. Otaru Music Box Museum, Chongqing Authorities will improve the hot pot Museum, Italian culture efficiency of the railway network and museum, Korean 3D Art Museum etc. out & about help develop a sound andhealthy in chongqing market for logistics, she said. 14 CHONGQING-ING / OUT AND ABOUT IN CHONGQING 15 TRAVELING

DISCOVERING WHITE ELEPHANT STREET YUZHONG LOWER CITY XINGHUA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

THIS ONE DAY WEEKEND TOUR was organized by Construc- Every year on 13 April, the date of the founding of the Ko- lion and a white elephant were built on either side of the Yang- BENEATH THE SKYSCRAPERS OF JIEFANGBEI EXPLORE HISTORIC tion Management Commission of the Historical and Cultural rean provisional government it plays host to academic and tze. There was a saying widespread in China then that "the BUILDINGS FROM CHONGQING’S PAST THEN CELEBRATE MID Blocks of Yuzhong District, Chongqing Investment Promotion commemorative activities to celebrate the friendship of the green lion and white elephant lock fortune in the river". AUTUMN FESTIVAL WITH A TRADITIONAL DINNER FOLLOWED Association, Chongqing Bureau of Foreign Experts Affairs, peoples of China and South Korea. The whole site includes five BY AN EVENING OF LOCAL ART AND CULTURE. and co-organized by Chongqing International Club, CQLatin recreated buildings of the time. In fact White Elephant Street was the centre of Chongqing Chamber of Commerce, with the support of Stomatological from the time of the Southern Song Dynasty and after years Hospital of Chongqing Medical University EIGHTEEN STEPS ‘SHIBA TI’ of relative obscurity it is returning to the city’s heart. The new design for Jiefangbei includes it in an over-all plan which TONGYUAN GATE AND WALL In contrast to Jiefangbei where the modern city has been built includes various historic centres and buildings which will be on the historic city centre, Eighteen Steps has always been an incorporated into the new Yuzhong - aristocratic residences, Yuzhong’s Tongyuan gate and wall at the intersection of area of winding flights of stone steps little changed in centu- guildhalls and Victorian foreign embassy buildings - celebrat- Zhongshan 1 Road , Heping road, and Jintang road was built ries. Up here traffic once came from the docks at the foot of ing 800 years of architectural styles. in the Ming dynasty and was once the only land gate onto the the hill - water carriers, chair carriers - to the business districts Chengdu plain. Its arches stand over 5.33 meters high and 3.5 at the top of the hill. OLD MEDICAL ASSOCIATION meters wide and originally houses a portcullis which now no longer exists. At one time it marked the boundary of the city, The name Eighteen Steps probably first came into use during Set at 15 YangZiBa in Wanglongmen, Yuzhong this building but now of course stands in the middle of central Chongqing. the Ming dynasty - there was a well nearby set down eighteen dates back to 1926. The distinctive style of the building uses flights of steps. It was also the scene of great destruction embossed reliefs on the walls, doors, window frames, and THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT during the last war including when hundreds of people were pillars. MUSEUM crushed during in a panic in an air raid. XINGHUA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL After the outbreak of the war in China, the Korean provisional WHITE ELEPHANT STREET government in exile moved to Chongqing from . It The restored Xinghua elementary school is located in 9 Jiud- was houses in the Chongqing lotus pavilion which was built by During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the local economy and aomen, Yuzhong. It was built in 1935 and these days modernist the then Chinese national government. culture was very prosperous. To guard this prosperity a green eclectic style building is host to various exhibitions and events.

16 TRAVELING 17 LIVING MS. ALIYA SALTANATOVA works for the Yew Chung International school of Chongqing. She is a certified English and Art teacher with almost 16 years of work experience instructing students of all ages in the field of Intensive English and Art. Ms. Saltanatova teaches various types of art such as watercolor painting, oil painting, charcoal DARE TO sketching, sculpture, and design.

I HAVE HAD A GREAT OPPORTUNITY to be on a tour of the southern part of our city organized by the Chongqing International Club. I really enjoyed being a part of the whole event. ENVISION

Chongqing is almost a secret, hidden, mega metropolis in China’s countryside. Getting to know the place becomes an exercise in discovery. Chongqing is a great city to explore with its banyan besieged winding walkways, stairways,and older neighborhoods. Its locals are frank, honest, and delightfully playful. They are great for a good chat if you are willing to learn the local dialect. And despite the glossy, generic version of itself that Chongqing tries to project, its true nature is a wonderful variety of gritty. What makes Chongqingso special is its many contrasts. It is a city for exploring and discovery. The brave traveller will experience true Chinese culture, history, and Chongqing flavors by getting lost in its labyrinths.

JOE KAUFMAN works for the University of Cincinnati and the Joint Coop Institute partnered with . He is a Teaching Assistant for the Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering programs and enjoys teaching engineering related classes to the students. Joe enjoys sharing American culture with the engineering program and looks forward to indulging in the rich history that china has to offer.

I REALLY ENJOYED GETTING TO KNOW THE the 18 Steps area. The City is very optimistic OTHER TOURISTS in our group. With so for the new community that is being built in its 300-year-old history. The different many foreigners, we quickly realized that its place. From the overlook, we were able temples around Chongqing each have a everyone was from different parts of the to enjoy a great view of the Yangtze river, a unique history to share and this one was world. This tour group was a lot of fun and prominent centerpiece for Chongqing. no exception. The busy day ended with an very lively. We were all interested to hear elegant meal at Eight Halls next door. The each other’sstories while learning about I enjoyed the walk to the Rongchuang White restaurant was very well decorated, the Chongqing’s history together. I enjoyed Elephant Street. The streets of Chongqing view for the sunset on the Yangtze river sharing my knowledge from my hometown are always alive with people, vendors, and was beautiful, and the food was absolutely back in the United States and met someone friendly faces. The buildings on the White delicious. Of course, it would not be a who lived 10 miles away from me back in Elephant Street were very well renovated Mid-Autumn Festival Celebration without the United States. What a coincidence! and have a lot of historical value to the the moon cakes for dessert. The several city. They are an exemplary model of fine tables in the restaurant enjoyed rounds of STUDIO EN proudly presents Chongqing Currents 2016/05. The guided tour began with a welcome artisanship and hard work from many years trivia and even a detailed presentation of speech from several City Officials explaining ago combined with a modern rehabilitation contemporary Chinese art to end the night. the significance of the Mid-Autumn to the existing structure. It helps to preserve Festival and sharing their appreciation for the city’s history while creating modern Chongqing Investments and Promotion Jiefangbei. Our tour guide led us to the usable living and entertainment space for Association did a great job organizing Tongyuanmen city walls. The statues and people to enjoy. this event and I look forward to the many figurines reenacting a battle scene on the more adventures I will have in Chongqing wall was very impressive. We then explored Our tour group enjoyed a guided tour of before I travel back to the United States what is left of the Shibati Garden City, and the HuGuang Halls and learned a lot about in December. As the strategic design partner of Chongqing Currents, we specialize STUDIO EN | Los Angeles, CA in visual communication solutions from branding to visual identity to WEB StudioEN.us 18 TRAVELING interactive design. Talk to us about your project today. PH 1.424.209.7658 EATING & DRINKING bamboo cook 烹饪 by alexanderby middleton

stir fried 2 beef and bamboo shoots

bamboo INGREDIENTS STEP 1 2 Tbs. toasted sesame oil Heat oil in wok over medium-high heat. 1 stir fry 2 dried chiles de arbol or dried cayenne Add chiles, and cook 1 to 2 minutes, or until INGREDIENTS STEP 1 STEP 2 chiles, thinly sliced fragrant. ½ lb. king oyster mushrooms, cut at an angle 400 gr fresh bamboo shoots Rinse beef and pat dry, thinly slice. Marinate Put a wok on the stove, heat 1 tablespoon crosswise into ¼-inch-thick slices (2½ cups) STEP 2 150 gr beef tenderloin beef with ginger, 1 tablespoon of cooking of cooking oil then add garlic to fry until 2 medium carrots, cut into matchsticks 1 small knob ginger, pounded oil, 1 tablespoon of oyster sauce, 1 teaspoon fragrant. Use high heat, pour beef into the (1½ cup) Add mushrooms, and cook 7 to 9 minutes, 1 shallot, thinly sliced of soup base in 20-30 minutes. Strip wok to stir-fry in about 2-3 minutes until it ⅓ lb. long beans, cut into 1-inch lengths or until most moisture has evaporated. 1/2 head garlic, minced bamboo shoots lengthwise, rinse many becomes a bit shriveled. Beef at this stage (2 cups) Scallions and cilantro, finely chopped times under cold water. Gently squeeze can be fairly rare but when stir-fried with ½ lb. cooked bamboo shoots, cut lengthwise STEP 3 Sugar, oyster sauce, spices, cooking oil bamboo to remove water. Put a pot of bamboo, it will no longer be chewy. Transfer into ¼-inch-thick wedges (2 cups) water over the heat. When water boils, add beef to a plate. 2 Tbs. soy sauce Stir in carrots, and cook 2 minutes. Add long bamboo shoots and 1.5 teaspoon of sugar beans, and cook 3 to 4 minutes. into the pot (sugar helps to remove the STEP 3 Add bamboo shoots, and smell of bamboo). Cook until the bamboo n Chongqing we are surrounded by this stir-fry 3 minutes. Stir boils again in about 3 minutes then turn off Put the wok back on the stove, heat 1 in soy sauce, and cook the heat (please remember to boil with no tablespoon of cooking oil then fry shallots Ianti-oxidant rich grass. Try combining 1 minute more. lid on). Wash the bamboo again with cold until fragrant. Fry over high heat, add more of it into your diet with these easy water. Pour the bamboo into a colander to bamboo shoots and liquid from stir-frying let water drain off. beef, stir-fry in about 3-4 minutes. Pour to cook basic Chinese-style recipes. beef into the wok to stir-fry until fully cooked. Add spices to taste if needed at this step. Add scallions, cilantro and toss in about 10 seconds then turn off the heat.

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STEP 5 STEP combine in a small bowl Meanwhile, and sauce oyster beef cube, water, wine, well. Stir cornstarch. 6 STEP STEP 7 STEP Add mixture to pan and stir frequently until frequently pan and stir to mixture Add thickened. Add a dash of pepper and sesame oil sesame and pepper of dash a Add and serve.

Add bamboo and mushrooms, cook for for cook mushrooms, and bamboo Add 1 minute. Heat vegetable oil and sauteé pork for pork for oil and sauteé vegetable Heat 2 minutes. another minute. STEP 3 STEP 4 STEP for and cook onion and lettuce Add STEP 1 STEP 2 STEP Mix sliced meat with 1 tbsp. soy sauce. soy with 1 tbsp. meat Mix sliced

EATING & EATING DRINKING bamboo smoked smoked pork and INGREDIENTS pork chops, boneless 2 smoked thinly sliced sauce 1 tbsp soy oil 1 tbsp vegetable 1 tin boiled bamboo shoots, sliced sliced mushrooms, 4 shiitake roughly leaves, 6 lettuce chopped onion, thick slices 1/2 or cooking 3 tbsp shaoxing wine white 3 tbsp water 1 beef bouillon cube sauce 1 tbsp oyster 1 tsp cornstarch black pepper 1 dash ground 1 tbsp sesame oil EATING & DRINKING EATING

烹饪 by alexander middleton 3 22 25 China. Confucian noted in his work that “it that in his work noted China. Confucian and wealth acquiring to is human nature shall be morally the approach Yet, status. he Based on this principle, acceptable”. driver be cart me to also said:“it is ok for earning, if not, I’ll a good have if I could I like”. choose what as much as earnings make It is ok to and morality the without sacrifice possible is As an idiom goes: “money happiness. but a good servant”. mean master is necessary “money that concept The has been but not the only purpose of life” not only the sages but also by promoted poem It is implied in a famous the mass. Du Shiniang: Chinese geisha, a famous by cherish of his shall not be “one / pick a flower of youth but more wealth blooming but not shading”. when it’s huge difference between that of the that between huge difference society. of the current ancient and that year in several poverty, from Resulting the outside open to to when China start means all” became the “money world, as Decades later, concept. main strain has the concept improved, the conditions does not means “money by been replaced lose all”. It is fair you all;without money, much less is important but enough. Money friendship, love, important than family, is infinite, desire One’s health etc... time, his needs. beyond is far ask for he’d what so our desire, control shall learn to we Yet, of the spiritual needs. see more could we for shall obey 2 principles we are There ways; get it in proper to acquiring: money sacrifice but never the better, the more have principles These the happiness. those sages in ancient by been promoted , they can , they

It is ok to make to is ok It earnings as much as possible sacrifice without the morality and happiness. be easy to calculate; for relatively large large relatively for calculate; to be easy shall be collected they amount, however, “串” (phonetic transcription and measured, )and “朋”(phonetic in Chinese: “chuan” ) referred in Chinese: “peng” transcription “ originally. currency 2 measurement to amount of tie a certain 串” meant “to which thread”, of with a piece money for basic measurement the second was Seeing its “peng”——2 “chuan”. money. “朋” meant that shall know we structure, Yeas “2 bunches of shells tied together. be “people its meaning turned to later, someone other than the to relates who are relatives” about talking about these characters After the concept on to move let’s currency, is a quite There wealth. of the Chinese to FOR SMALL AMOUNT OF SHELLS [“串” and “朋”]

etymons about and characters characters the currency and wealth part 3 CULTURE

An excerpt from the book

关于“财富”的 CULTURE “The Interpretation to Chinese Culture from Chinese Characters” 字与字根 (3) by xie feidong / nie hui [chn] translated by liguan yanping [chn] 24 PART III

in camera CULTURE chong qing

Red Clouds in the Sky 彩霞满天

Photo by Chen Yong 陈勇

26 CULTURE 27

art scene

Paintings by Zhou Shunkai CULTURE Translation by Miffy Meng ZHOU SHUNKAI 周顺恺 Hui nationality, was born in Chongqing in 1950, Member of Chinese Painting Committee chong of China Artists, Executive director of the Chinese Painting Institute, President of Chongqing Institute of Chinese qing painting, Honorary president of Chongqing Painting Academy, A National First Class Painter, Special allowance experts from the State Council. of the creation.Whether in and greater than the "painting", history or in reality theme , he in the draft than on paper is pursuing a sublime aesthetic drawings. That is to say, he is artistic conception,he will try a sensitive and heavy thinking to construct and create the conceived painter, always in magnificent scenes combine the pursuit of transcendence to portraying the main characters, drive the specific creation, and forming a rich and broad strive to continuously achieve picture of the structure and his own art of high quality. striking a powerful style. In In the language of ink and historical theme works, he is wash painting, he explores the pursuing a sublime aesthetic relationship between picture artistic conception, through character combination and 《黄河之水天上来》 136cmx68cm the characters and historical visual rhythm in the long term. scenes, to build up a historical to study on the relationship depth of visual space, forming between the line shape and the visual of epic narrative. In color rendering. His pen line the realistic works, He especially contains the traditional literati experience in the deep life, feel painting line on the pursuit of 《祥云》 180×188cm the reality as the foundation. "temperament" conception, Through the accumulation of but also inherited since life, enhance the understanding twentieth Century brush line SPIRITUAL CONCERN AND Shunkai's works which initiatives to benefit the ink figure painting. Since the of figure painting, From the with vigorous style, form a CHINESE PAINTING FEELINGS has taken many years to people, It also reflects the 1980s he has explored creative description of the characters to strong change in the ink pen ON THE COMPLETION OF THE accumulate is a great way to contribution of art masters to and innovative methods in a rise to the fate of the characters line and the charm, describe "ZHOU SHUNKAI ART MUSEUM" promote public understanding society. Excellent works of art large number of works in a concerned,In many of the works the artistic image of many rich of his artistic life, appreciate are always in a silent way to variety of important national art which in shaping contemporary personality. By Fan Dian, president of his superb artistic style, and educate and inspire people. exhibition and Chinese Painting ordinary workers, showing China Central Academy Of also increase understanding Let people have dialogue with Academic Exhibition. And in concern for reality and the Mr. Zhou Shunkai is at the Fine Arts of the most important types the work to cultivate character, July 2010 in the Chinese Art strong sense of life, use the peak of his life, many of his of folk art in Chinese painting, enhance accomplishment, Museum held a large personal ink language to draw a thick masterpieces to capture I am glad to hear that "Zhou and increase cultural self- and get creative inspiration exhibition. He is not only soil of the common people the moment and carefully Shunkai Art Museum" opening, confidence and pride. and innovation of the spirit of outstanding representative of appearance, show the spirit of constructed enriched the I would like to express my power. In this regard, Mr. Zhou contemporary painting Chinese the new era in the creation of history and reality of the warm congratulations! In Along with economic Shunkai's art exploration and southwest artists, also is an realism pain ting. situation, has created fresh our country’s new cultural development has come a creation in particular has a important representative in the life form characters, exudes construction boom, Chongqing new demand for aesthetic unique value. figure painting innovation. Zhou Shunkai's figure painting a meaningful artistic charm. Yuzhong District Party culture. The construction of to borrow depends on his The completion of “Zhou Committee , the Yuzhong the Museum of art masters, to Zhou Shunkai grew up in the Zhou Shunkai's art reflects good nature and art modelling Shunkai Art Museum”, so that District People's government is improve the social aesthetic new China, in the times of the inheritance and innovation skills, but also benefit from the majority of the public to supporting the establishment level, through the development reform and opening up ,who of contemporary Chinese he has always been pursuit of appreciate his creative talent, the Zhou Shunkai art museum. of art exchanges, increase developed his own artistic painting, throughout his ink the classic sense. In a way, his will also provide new impetus the city cultural vitality of style, became an outstanding figure painting works, he artistic quality of "thinking" in for him a who can continue to This collection of Zhou the region, is the real cultural artist especially in the field of devoted his best to the theme mind, often to specific priority climb the art peak in the future .

28 CULTURE 29 CULTURE Painting by Zhou Shunkai

Green Home《绿色家园》

30 CULTURE 31 CULTURE poetry by shi tang

7. 11. black tears well up After a rainstorm the ants are sighing On the ground of snow the blackness and sighing of the ants strikes the eyes 16. Their homestead I fail to see I feel the ants in flowery shade Is broken in the manner of tears. Their cool starting point and destination. Are particularly handsome But the minute ants I only guess: the butterflies Including their Are harder than scrap iron. What are they doing? Scent-spreading labor Do they, like me And their gorgeous weary looks on 8. Shed hard tears. the face. I love the full forehead of the ants And their bright eyes. 12. 17. poetry They remind me: the small shoulders of In a stagnant poetic line The ants have blazed a new black trail the ants My ants are running by carrying a lightning Are not shouldering It comes earlier than thunderclaps. 18. Huge happiness. In another flowing poetic line The ants are worming in the words 诗歌 My ants have bestrewn my dark path. And the sky in the slot of words 9. Is more azure In the bones of the ants, there are 13. Many fibers of the banner The ants are removing the sky, and they The ants have awakened a word, which And the ember of red flowers. Cross the mirror-like water Crawls along with them They are in no need of arid awe I have seen a new ant. THE LIGHT OF ANTS The ants never cry in fear even though a They do not leave clouds and rainwater (Translated by Zhang Zhizhong) mountain To a single person Which is so diligent, so handsome of facial Is pressing against them. When the ants remove the sky features 1. The ants are standing gloriously. The moist is walking away slowly. Bosoming heartthrobs of the earth Where do the ants originate? Where is their ancestral Under the sunshine, the flowery fragrance It keeps off dewdrops on the grasstop. place? is becoming thick 14. The ants On the mouth. The abrupt knife 19. Remain silent. The ants are climbing along the edge The simple life Their minute language belongs also to human beings 10. of knife. Like ants, is clear at a simple glance. In their whispering to each other by body contact I have never seen any ant that can dream The edge does no harm to the ants They have fulfilled The ants in my eyes And the ants 20. The great revelation of voices. Are always crawling and finding something Force the light of the edge back inch Do not ask: where do the ants come from to carry. by inch. Why 2. Horror. Even if the ants have a dream The ants are dark like the dark night. For the whole morning I have been watching a swarm The dream is on the way, just like the 15. of ants 5. sweat of the ants A drop after another drop of ant-like ink I know for sure that The heavily dark letters When the ants form ants each other Is loyal to a trek Is knocked by poetry I am going to meet a saint Brings uneasiness to the course. At a lonely corner of the earth I am In the pupils, drops after drops of hot From among the ants. They are removing thunderclaps Recollecting the order of the revolution of planets. They are removing lighting. When the ants endear themselves to themselves within the soul 3. Words such as labor and solidarity On the faces of the ants, there appeared Flare and flash together. TANG, SHI (唐诗) born in Rongchang collections of poetry such as Short Poems Flowers and Echoes, To Serve A fairy-tale-like appearance. When the ants leave the interspace of a gorge County of Chongqing in 1967, is by Contemporary Chinese Young Poets, Everybody Well, The Light of Ants I try to fill it up. a distinguished poet and critic in and Guided Reading in Contemporary (Chinese-English), The Paper Through 4. contemporary China. His original name Chinese Poetry 1949—2009. His published Time (Chinese-English-Greek), and The The ants never want to block huge steps 6. was Tang Derong. He is a doctor of collections of poems and prose include Happy Village, etc. His poems have And they are like A young ant management, and he is now editor-in- Walking Toward That Tree, Flowers been translated into over ten languages, Minute Is full of noonday splendor chief of An Introduction to Contemporary Have Not Come to Autumn, Walking and some pieces are included into the And black. I see the hair on its head Chinese Poetry. He has edited several Throughout Myriads of Mountains of Souls, textbook for university students. Is more brilliant than gold.

32 CULTURE 33 CULTURE poetry by ying zi poetry

THE MASK (GROUP POEMS) LOVE ILLUSION (Translated by Yang Xu) Speaking out death In freezing winter I kept you In your writing Ever more I fear the queer nightmare As you were and your heaven of lies You have hurt my bone I still remember once in my dream As a whole. Or marrow. He bared himself and left me behind I put my throbbing heart In the human world, I persuaded hard but even the first aid To stop the leaking hole that kept you. I cry Would fail to revive you It would be springtime soon. While you laugh, In fact I care about you The over-mature pomegranates would All because Unless I care to do it bloom Neither of us can escape The speed of sound can connect the On the cliff, distance between heaven and earth The over-ripe wheat waited for harvest in Death… What I want to tell you the village. Is whatever ways to die, we have to face We just supported our love with yellowed them bones then. When we live The end of it Never feel dejected Was a shadow that went Nor just occasionally fall Through your body Into the love-trap Most youthful. If I am affected, Then why are we so sorrowful? In cold winter The bygones seem to be virtual Illusion accompanies lies. Please believe my statement to you After I specially reminded you UNSEEN FRAGRANCE THE NORTH WIND BLOWS If our code gets lost I will never be able to report the never-to- The breeze soothing I always intend disappear electric waves. My drying heart To write some poems and prose Which is ready To send out as gifts To hold your hand at any time But the easiest way is just to send the Father! The fully blooming rape dazzles biggest apple with golden brilliance in the field You will be safe and sound The rape has grown up one stalk after When standing on it THE HIDDEN ONE another When it rolls ZI, YING (PURPLE SHADOW，紫影) her former name Poems of Zi Ying, The Verse of Wind and Flowers, Into youthful beauties, healing the grief I Please don’t blame that it has raised you up Mirror Chen Yaoying, a contemporary Chinese poetess and Tibetan Incense (Chinese-English), and Heavenly had So that you will be nearer to your How did you steal my vision writer, is now a member of the Writers’ Association Passion (Chinese-English), and The Prime of Those In the time of spring which I could never hometown And keep it in it of Province, a contract writer at the journal Blooming Days (a collection of prose writings). She find again You can kiss it And gaze at my flesh outside it of Chinese Poetry, and a contract writer at Hongxiu is also a prize winner for a number of her works: You wither each day When you lie down If there is really a soul or spirit Tianxiang (a novel-net, its address: HYPERLINK Her An Impression of Shanxi and An Engagement In the old time of the world Meeting you I think you, the one hidden in the mirror "http://www.hongxiu.com" www.hongxiu.com). She in Spring won the prize of the best work at the Our sloughed bones will give unseen In the human world Are gloomy and grieved has published over 800 poems or other writings in Huabiao Prize of the Chinese Prose in 2012. Her fragrance I can also present you my smile My dear one, after your departure Young Writers, The poetry journal of Stars, Chinese An Encounter won the prize of prose writing in Like soil does. As brilliant I regret that I pretend not to care about Prose Writers, Cathay Prose, the poetry journal of September, 2015. She also won the prize of excellent As Diablo you because of the worldly norms Shipin (Poetic Works), Chongqing Jishi (On-the-Spot poet at the first awarding of Jindi Poetry Prize in 2014 Just live a good life in this world. Tell UFO it In my helplessness Report of Chongqing), Tong Hua Daily (Thailand) and the prize of poet nova at the Prize of Chinese can be blown by the north wind I decorate his nonbeing on the wall and other selections. She is the author of Collected Contemporary Poetry (2013-2014) in December, 2014. Someday, we will stumble The wind blows fit after fit It down— Your portrait of a lying position Comes to the frame.

34 CULTURE 35 CULTURE by alexander middleton "I was surprised to find that the Yangtze River Explore was so large such Chongqing’s a great distance unoccupied by the Japanese, except for the U.S. Standard Oil from the sea. " over enemy lines and into tank. past through Chongqing where they lived in Beibei for three months during JOURNEY TO CHUNGKING the works the height of the bombing campaign against the city Dr Daniel Nelson was a before returning to America. representative of the World of twentieth Lutheran Convention who seen anywhere. I think it is safe The station wagon took us FIRST SIGHT OF CHONGQING spent many years in China and to say that the Szechuanese for a long ride to the city of century English spoke Mandarin. In the 1940s on the whole live on a Chungking. The roads were so Around eight the signal inside he returned to the country comparatively high economic precipitous that I clung to my writers who the plane flashed and we travelling via India and ‘the level. This is partially due to the seat as we made the hairpin fastened our belts, for we were Hump’, the perilous flight over climate, which is conducive to turns. All along the road we going to descend! Before a the Himalayas into Yunan and the producing of all varieties saw entrances to the air raid lived in the word was said I had lost the then on to Chongqing. of agricultural products. There shelters of Chungking, which trend of my thought and I are also comparatively few by this time have gained world mid-twentieth knew that the three little bones LANDING IN CHONGQING famines in Szechuan. The fame. It is comparatively easy in my ear weren't working economic standard of the to excavate shelters in the side century city right. In some kind of a whirl, I was surprised to find that the Szechuanese is certainly above of the mountains because of like the taking-off, I found the Yangtze River was so large that of North China, Northwest the soft rock formations of the plane gliding to the airport of such a great distance from the China, and certain parts of Chungking area. When I saw all Chungking! sea. The mighty river curled Central China. The fertile these caves I was reminded of its way through the Ta Liang Yangtze river basin and the those in northwest China, where The airport was in the middle mountains like a dragon. south- eastern provinces are the natives live in the caves voices from of the river, and lifting my generally considered the most in the loess formations. They eyes I saw Chungking! "We've The farmhouses in West China fruit- ful portions of China. tell us that near Chungking a arrived!" all of us exclaimed. were tile-roofed in- stead of When “Uncle Joe's Chariot” whole government factory is Hurray! We stepped out of straw-roofed as in Central and [the plane] began circling now functioning underground old chungking the plane and put our feet for North China. The rice fields of around for a landing place in in one of these enormous the first time on the ground Yunnan and Szechuan were the the Chungking mountains, I caves. IRONICALLY THE WAR DAWN OVER CHUNGKING had the Chinese name Yu-ju of Chungking. We hurried to most picturesque I have ever was frankly worried. I could WHICH BROUGHT SO MUCH 玉如. She was an author and the shed where luggage was seen. I could not understand not see how there could be a The majority of the present DESTRUCTION TO CHONGQING This contains three first-hand the general editor of Chinese examined as we were all too at first why the rice fields were flat spot large enough to effect inhabitants of Chungking have LEFT BEHIND SOME OF THE accounts of life in Beibei (Peipei Reader's Digest from 1965 until anxious to get it over with. semi-circular in formation, a landing. But we managed migrated here from other MOST VIVID DESCRIPTIONS OF in old Romanisation) written by her retirement in 1988. but it did not take me long to to land safe and sound on a provinces occupied by the THE OLD CITY AVAILABLE IN the daughters of Lin Yutang, There were flights of steps learn that we were flying over narrow strip of ground near the Japanese. The population of the ENGLISH. NOW OVER 70 YEARS a leading twentieth century Lin Hsiang-ju (林相如; born leading up to Chungking and mountains in some places as river. There was not much room city is now in the neighborhood ON MANY OF THESE BOOKS writer in English on Chinese 1931), was referred to as MeiMei on top stood the houses of high as the Himalayas, and to spare. We were told that of one million people. I was ARE AVAILABLE FOR FREE civilisation. in childhood. She was co- Chungking and the people that these rice paddies were this was “Uncle Joe's” special informed that the majority of ON SITES SUCH AS ARCHIVE. author of cookbooks with her of Chungking, water carriers located in mountainous terrain. landing field. Sometimes the present buildings have been ORG GIVING A FASCINATING Lin Feng-ju (林鳳如; 1923–1971) mother, and was a biochemist were busily carrying water up The rice fields, almost without during the spring rains the rebuilt from the ruins of many INSIGHT INTO A LOST WORLD. was an author who also used at Queen Mary hospital in Hong the steep steps and there were exception, were in graduated field is inundated. The C.N.A.C. bombings. New streets have the pseudonym Tan Yun and is Kong. the chair carriers carrying the formations, from large semi- planes land on an island in the been planned. The Chinese The following three writers all called Adet in the book. The girls had been living mainly passengers up almost vertically. circular paddies at the bottom Yangtze River. Being ushered have done a remarkable job of give great first-hand insight in America prior to coming to Those were the lampposts and to the highest small semi- to a waiting station wagon, we building a new city on the ruins into what life was like during Lin Taiyi (林太乙; 1926–2003) China. In the book the girls the sidewalks of Chungking circular fields. We flew over waved goodby to “Uncle Joe's of the old. the late thirties and forties, and was also known as Anor Lin describe their journey by plane over there across the south some of the most elaborate Chariot.” are all available on Archive.org in her earliest writing, and from Hong Kong, then still bank was a Chinese landscape, farmhouse layouts that I have

36 CULTURE 37 EAT IT, WEAR IT, LIVE IN IT, SHOOT

YOURSELF BY ALEXANDER MIDDLETON WITH IT: DESIGN BY FRANK W.

竹子 bamboo, the grass for every A eventuality

AROUND 700,000 TO 500,000 YEARS AGO pandas began adapting to live on bamboo. Arguably, this wasn’t a success. Humans however, while only starting to use bamboo a number of thousand of years ago rather than hundreds of thousands of years ago have achieved considerably more with the plant. Sorry if that sounds arrogant, but let’s face it, the panda is not one of the world’s great thinkers as is evidenced by the scarcity of great art or literature pandas have left F to the world and why one is yet to win Wheel of Fortune.

In the few thousand years that humans have been playing around AS FOOD with various inventive ways to put the abundant giant grass to use they have come up with everything from life supporting purposes Raw bamboo shoots are actually toxic to such as food and clothing, to life quelling uses as weapons, and life humans releasing a cyanide into the gut enhancing uses such as writing implements. when ingested. It is only through boiling BAMBOOZLED or other processing that the toxins are Nowhere in the world has this steady creativity been in evidence eliminated. The trial and error process that than in our own dear Chongqing where the sheer abundance of led to this discovery must not have been a bamboo forced people to think again and again about how to put long one. all those towering quick growing forests to some sort of useful purpose. The sap of the young stalks can also be tapped at certain times of year and fermented to produce a sweet wine.

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Chinese classical literature has long seen bamboo as a metaphor for the perfect gentleman - upstanding but flexible, open hearted as exemplified by its hollow centre, and strong while not being physically powerful.

However, certain aspects of bamboo have also had negative associations. The rarely blossoming flowers are in some areas seen as a sign of impending famine. W In fact, this might have some truth behind it. It has been suggested that when the bamboo flower, which they do only around every 60 to 120 years, rats and AS WEAPON other vermin have an unexpected abundance of food, allowing them to reproduce more veraciously than Traps using sharpened bamboo stakes tied to taut normal and then devour even more crops and food bamboo poles which when released would impale a M BM stores than they would normally do. hapless passerby were in use throughout Asia well into the twentieth century, even being employed by the . Japanese in the invasion of Burma in the 1940s. AS MEDICINE AS BUILDING MATERIAL What is often overlooked, however, is that bamboo also Bamboo has long been used in Chinese medicine for While bamboo has now largely been relegated to use as scaffolding has had a far more sophisticated impact on humans’ treatment of infections, but in addition it has been it was once a key building material. In Chongqing up till only half ability to push unwelcome objects into each other. shown to be high in anti-oxidants. It can also be used a century ago much of the city used bamboo poles to support Around the beginning of the Song dynasty (960-1279) to make cups for Chinese medicine cupping, as well as buildings which jutted out from the mountainsides. In addition to someone thought how nifty it would be if you jammed a massage aid. this, it was used from before the first century CE to create basic gunpowder into the bottom of a sealed bamboo pole, suspension bridges, with bamboo strips strung from bamboo poles sticking a spear in on top, and then igniting it. These supporting bamboo walkways. fire spears, the forerunners of modern firearms, grew in popularity throughout the Song period. They were used for both close quarter combat by both infantry C and cavalry, launched in huge volleys in battles, and mounted on city walls to dissuade any marauders who CHINESE CLASSICAL B were so inclined from laying siege. LITERATURE HAS LONG SEEN AS CLOTHING BAMBOO AS A METAPHOR FOR Bamboo has been woven into hats in China for THE PERFECT GENTLEMAN AS BOOK thousands of years. In Europe, meanwhile the Victorians ladies seized on bamboo as an alternative Around 1250 BCE bamboo strips were being used as a to whalebone in their corsets to help make their standard writing surface and remained the material of waists preposterously small and in their bustles to choice until around the third century CE when paper help make their posteriors preposterously huge. In began to proliferate. However, even then bamboo more recent years, new processes have led to greater was often pulped in order to make paper, and even use of bamboo in fabrics. However, as bamboo’s short today is sometimes used to make products such as fibres usually require a synthetic binder, unscrupulous money offerings for ancestors and some high quality marketing departments have taken to advertising what handmade papers. is effectively rayon with bits of bamboo in it as ‘natural bamboo fiber’ in order to extract money from hipsters and the eco-trendy middle classes.

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SETTING UP YOUR CHILD’S

the proprioceptive sensations. At the same FIRST BEDROOM time, prepare some mobile for stimulation and appropriate options so that they can practice refinement. their will to choose. In our daily life, we have many opportunities to do this as well. For example, when Feeding Area: In this area, you may put a chair that we are trying to serve the child fruits, we may give makes the mother feel comfortable when she is two options such as “Would you like to eat an WHEN WE ARE GOING TO BE THE FATHERS OR Sleeping Area: For the child before three months old, giving the breast-milk. Besides, put a low table and apple or a banana?”. Please try to avoid by asking MOTHERS, we are crazily busy on preparing the birth we can provide with a Cestina. It helps the child for some tissues on it. Decorate it with small plants. It “Do you want to eat an apple?” since it is easy for of our children. Out of that, one important preparation the reference since the shape is the similar with the helps to build the reference and sense of safety. the child to say no and they are always intended is to set up the bedroom. womb which is the place the child lives before born to say NO. There is one more thing we need to be originally. Meanwhile, it helps to keep the temperature Changing Area: Prepare a cabinet with low attended to, that is to provide appropriate options, Lots of researches show that starting from the and gives the child opportunity to watch to refine his/ drawers. It helps to build another reference and which means once the child makes the choice, we birth, we, as adults, can help support the child’s her eyesight. After three months, a low bed without the sense of order. It helps the child and parents have to respect. You cannot provide the child with independence. As the preschool educators from any fence is needed. If you think to let the child sleep to develop a normalized relationship between junk food and complain while he/she accept it. Beautiful Grassland which is dedicated to propagate on the bed closed to the floor, it influences the health, attachment and separation. Montessori Education, based on the real experience, then, you may put an anti-wet mat under the bed. The child is learning through the exploration to we would like to share with all parents and expectant All those areas give the child the chance to prepare the environment. But don’t forget to build the parents some brief ideas of setting up the first Movement Area: The movement area is for the child for his/her independence. When the child is ready bridge between the child and the environment. bedroom to support child’s independence. to move when he/she is awake. Put a mat on the floor to crawl, the low bed is accessible for the child We cannot just prepare the environment and so that the child can lie down, crawl or do any other to lie down and sleep by him/herself. For the then tell the child, “see, the environment is ready, Although we call it bedroom, but please be attended, movements. A mirror is necessary to put on the wall cabinet in the changing area, the low drawers go and explore”. As the adult, we are actually it is not only for sleeping. In this room, we can prepare down to the floor to give child the chance to see are accessible for the child to choose what he/ the bridge, we are the link, we are the one to several areas: sleeping area, movement area, feeding what’s there. It gives the child the impression that she wants to dress (of course here, we have to be guide child to explore environment. Only if we area and changing area. the one on the mirror can do the same movement attended that we shall not put all the clothes in, make the environment prepared and help the as the child. Finally, it helps the child to develop otherwise it confuses the child). child to connect with the environment, the child will be ready to explore and walk on the path to What we shall do is to provide the child with independence. CQ Currents / LIVING 51 BAN LIAO LAKE, WAN SHENG Photo by Xu Kai

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