In 2015, after ten years’ continuous effort, Wang and her team had succeeded in developing educational material on rural culture and bringing it into school curriculums in various rural minority regions, to help preserve rural culture heritage in those areas. Their vision is to build up among the pupils an understanding of, hence the […]
Professor Lin retired in 2000 and since then has made use of her knowledge and experience to serve the rural regions working among peasant grassroots. Her work has included field researches in dozens of rural counties as well as on-site training and consultation on agricultural techniques. Through her dedicated effort, she has helped driven […]
In defense of Japan’s misunderstood young generation They’re not the inactive introverts they’re made out to be Japanese youth are actually full of energy. The older generation just doesn’t know it. Ask someone for examples of young Japanese who are known internationally, they might name a few athletes — at best. Ask them […]
Zhou is a successful grower of mushrooms in Luozhen town in Jiangxi Province. In over 20 years she and her husband have dedicated all their efforts in cultivating different species of mushrooms. Her produce is well received by the market because of the good quality and is even accepted for distribution in supermarkets. The unique […]
Xie came from a village in Jiangxi. She was the only surviving child of the family and had to take up the burden of doing chores and field labor for the family from an early age. She had married against her will to a man arranged by her parents. Her husband was very laid-back and […]
Geng came from a poor family in a village in Yunnan Province and had gone to work in Kunming soon after junior high school. There she met a man from Guizhou Province and married him despite his frank admission about the remoteness of his home. At first she would leave home to work in the […]
Wang was from Xianghe County of Hebei Province. Throughout her life she has been fearless in fighting for her rights, first against abuses from her mother-in-law, then the right as a citizen to be nominated for election to the People’s Congress. She felt that the end result was not important but fighting for the right […]
Sun lives in Donggou Village of Hebei Province, a small mountainous village with just under 200 families. Since 2005, she has organized the women from the village to form a dance troupe. Her second son had just been killed in a traffic accident and she was in deep sorrow. To bring herself out of it, […]
Kung is Secretary of the Party branch in Yan Tou Zhong Village in Shandong Province, the first woman to have that position. When she took over, there were a lot of issues as the former secretary had done hardly anything for the peasants, and the village account had showed a hefty debt. Her first priority […]
Shi Yan was a Doctorate student in Renmin University and in 2008 had spent half a year on a farm in Minnesota practicing farming work and experiencing the American farming model. Upon returning to China she brought the model to Beijing’s “Little Donkey Farm”, advocating “Community Supported Agriculture” (CSA). That was the first in China. […]