Pu is a teacher in Beijing’s Peasant Girl School, also editor of the school journal as well as librarian. It is hard to believe she only had formal education up to Grade 3. She was born in a village in Ningxia where famine was the norm. At 12, she had to stop going to school […]
Gao was born in a remote mountain village in Gangsu province and had an impoverished childhood. In 1987, after graduation from high school, she went to Xian to work in a wholesale market for clothing, and learned the business. After two years she went back home to start a small clothing shop and became quite […]
Guo was not from a peasant background nor had she any experience in cultivation, yet she had transformed a weedy cotton field into a large organic vegetable farm. She had lived in her home village during childhood but then went to Tianjin and rarely gone back since. After more than 30 years when she went […]
Yang came from a relatively well-off rural family but was determined to be independent after high school. She married into an urban impoverished family and worked hard to earn a living with her husband. During pregnancy she took a relatively light job in a packaging factory making aluminum imprints. Yet, it had given her aluminum […]
Editor CAI Liang Ann is one of my best friends at Lingnan University. She always looks for volunteer opportunities and so she has many volunteer experiences. Here, I am going to share one of her experiences of volunteering in the USA last summer. There are mainly two reasons causing Ann to participate in the voluntary […]
editor Xu Jiale Liu Li is the founder of Xiamen Li Public Welfare Charity Organisation. Ms. Li is of Han ethinicity and was born in October 1980. Her earlier working experience was as a waiter and a nanny. She has been working at the foot bath town since 2000 as foot masseur. Her hard-working attitude […]
Starting from the changing beliefs of women’s original ecological planting Interviewer/Peng Yangyi, Xiao Han (Jiayi Women’s Development Center) Translator: Hu Xiaojing Jin Chan was wearing a yellow T-shirt and a black short when we met her for the first time. She was very hospitable to us. We walked into the room, opened the fanner and […]
The Miao Women Weaving Group Celebrate First Harvest of the Year Author/Ma Jiuju Translator/Li Jing Miao people often have a lot of festivals. Almost every other day they will have a festival. Villagers usually are tired because they do farm work every day, but festal arriving can enrich their daily life. The […]
Qiu Sao Interviewer/ Ma Jiu ju Translator/Zhao Jing Editor’s Remark: Mrs. Qiu is a great lady who has engaged in ecological farming for almost eight years. She believes that ecological farming brings us not only healthy food, but also benefits to her son. And the hard working in ecological farming won’t stop her […]
A Bashan Woman’s Blueprint Interviewers/Ma Jiuju Translator/ Zhao Jing Collator/ Li Jing My name is Zhongmin Song. My husband and I had worked in big cities for many years. In 2012, my mother-in-law and I went back to our hometown-Ningqiang, Shaanxi for health reasons. The doctor said the food issues and […]
