My Speech on China's Human Rights at the University of Nantes

At the invitation of Professor Francois Collart-Dutilleul from the University of Nantes in France, I attendedan international academic conference fo- cusing on the EU＇s foreign policies after the Lisbon Treaty, which was held at the university from Nov. 21 to Dec. 1,2011. Afterwards Professor Collart-Dutilleul asked me to give a lecture on human rights in China to his PhD. students and the following is what I got from this ex- perience in France.

Three Models of English Education in China＇s Universities ——-A Historical Perspective

In the present paper, a comparison is made of the three formats in the history of EECU （English education in China＇s universities）. In the first period （1904-1949）, English education was conducted separately in government-managed educational institutions and in institutions sponsored by church-related organizations; English education was well-knit with both general education and specialty education; and self-motivating learning was encouraged. In the second period （1950-1966）, almost everything was tinted with a shady color of politics： A halt was addressed drastically to EEC （English education in China） in 1952. In the gradual recovery that started four years later, the second format was sawed and hammered, showing the following features： All non-government-mamaged institutions vanished from the stage; English was taught solely as a language or a system of verbal parts, almost deprived of all cultural loading. The third period （1978 onwards） has witnessed a barrier-free and rapid development of over three decades, resulting in the unprecedented pervasion of EECU. Yet in the third tbrmat, learners＇ efforts have turned wholly test-oriented, degenerating into the saddening disintegrity of learning as a process into isolated charges to the target of a test at a time; the ignorant reduction of the learning methods to ＂Vocabulary Booklets Plus Collections of Test Papers＂. Such a comparison not only provides a multi-dimensional perspective of EECU and a better understanding of it, but also offers some important experiences and lessons for the search of an effective solution to the pervasive problem of＂Time-Consumingness and Low-Efficiency＂.

Policy Towards Gender Equality in Employment in a Globalizing Economy——An outline of the analysis report on the impacts of China's economic reform on women employment

1.This study is one of The Applied Economic Institutes Linkages Project(AERIL)which is funded by theCanadian International Development Agency(CIDA)and jiontly managed by The Conference Board of Canada(CBOC)and the International Trade Research Institute in China.It is jointly implemented by the Institute ofEconomic Research of the Chinese State Planning Commission and the North—South Institute of Canada。

Effect of Family Planning on Women's Lives in China

I.BackgroundFertilityhasdeclinedprecipitouslyinChinaoverthepastthreedecades,sotherearegenerationsofChinesewomenalivetodaywhohavebeenaffectedverydifferentlybyfamilyplanning.China'stotalfertilityrate(TFR)fellfrommorethansixchildreninthe1950stoaroundtwo...

Legislative Protection for Women's Rights and Interests after the Founding of the People's Republic of China

The process of legislative protection for women’s rights and interests of the new China can be divided into two phases: The first phase is from the establishment of the People’s Republic of China to the adoption of the policy of reform and opening up to the outside

The Rise of Women’s Education and the Modernity of East Asia:Focusing on the Education of“Virtuous Wives and Worthy Mothers”in China and Japan

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations between China and Japan.Looking back on the past and forward to the future,we realize modernity has become a critical issue that not only China and Japan,but the whole East Asian region should pay attention to.China and Japan are both within the“Circle of Confucius Culture”and are both modern latecomer countries.As they were coerced by western countries to enter the modern age,they shared multiple common features.An exploration of the two countries’respective rising of modern women’s education is an important path to discuss the reconstruction of gender and an important method of the course of the embodiment of east-Asian women into modernization drives.With regards to conclusion,entering the modern age,Chinese and Japanese intellectuals reshaped the female gender in terms of interpersonal relationship,value system,and knowledge structure by advocating the idea of“virtuous wives and worthy mothers”education.In the concept of virtuous wives and worthy mothers in East Asia,the Confucian ethics of“docility and virtue”is the soul,and modern scientific knowledge serves this core value.On the other hand,in the course of localization in China and Japan,this imported concept from the West has encountered a completely different historical fate.

China's Women Leaders Promote Quality and Equity in Family Planning

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China Keen to Protect Women’s Rights, Interests——An interview with Zhao Shaohua, vice-chairwoman of the All-China Women’s Federation

EDITOR＇S NOTE： Slated for September 2008, the Tenth National Congress of the Chinese Women will review the achievements the country has made over the past five years in promoting women＇s rights and interests and formulate the targets for the protection endeavor over the next five years. The five years since the Ninth National Congress of the Chinese Women have witnessed a constant improvement in the status of the Chinese women and in their human rights conditions. Following is a transcript of an interview given our staff reporters by Zhao Shaohua, vice-chairperson of the All-China Women＇s Federation （ACWF） and member of the ACWF Secretariat, on how women＇s rights and interests are protected in China.

Women 's Organizations of China

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China’s Women,Revealed

A review of Bi Feiyu’s Three Sisters,now shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize by Maya Reid BI Feiyu is reportedly inundated with interview requests from journalists every March asking him to comment on women’s issues (March 8 is the International Women’s Day).And why not? The author has been referred to by many as "China’s best male writer on the female psyche." If his novel,Three Sisters,wins this year’s Man

China’s First Telephone Hot Line for Women

A woman with a problem needs a good friend to tell her troubles to.But if the problem is too intimate,too embarrasing,a sympatheti,unknoumn oice at the other end of the telephone is often the best friend of all.

Returning Women's Rights to Human Rights——Reflection of feminism in modern China

The women＇s liberation movement in China started after the first opium war and it took shape with the aim of protecting the race and salvaging the country. Doubtlessly, the emergence of modern feminism opened the precedent in the theory of women＇s liberation in China and exerted a profound and far-reaching influence on women＇s liberation afterwards. But we must face up to the fact that there was some traps or misunderstanding of modern feminism, which were unfavorable for realizing women＇s rights and such influence was long, so much so that till today we are still seeing its existence. It is, therefore, necessary to have a full reflection of modem feminism, unveil the original meaning of women＇s rights and make women＇s rights return to human rights in order to make the development of women＇s fights continue.

Women in China's Anti-Poverty campaigns

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New Media Era: Research on Ideological and Political Education in Universities

The development of new media has brought to the ideological and political education in colleges and universities of the new situation and new problems that are needed to make a new generalization and explanation, which not only endows the new mission of ideological and political education workers, but also brings new opportunities to the innovation and development of ideological and political education theory. This paper argues and interprets the definition, impact analysis, and content &structure optimization of the new media era ideological and political governance education from a new perspective of interdisciplinary study including the sociology, psychology, ethics and Journalism.

Do Chinese Women Face Subtle Discrimination in Job Hiring?

Gender discrimination has long been the problem that exists in the entire world,including China.However,as more and more people are focusing on the general gender discrimination,the group recognized an extension of such discrimination-pregnancy discrimination in job hiring(the discrimination that women who are pregnant or have the inclination to pregnancy receive in hiring).The possible subtle pregnancy discrimination may be one of the main causes that lead to the declining fertility rate in China.The group decided to conduct an experiment to determine whether women are receiving more subtle discrimination in job hiring due to their identity as mother than men with children,men without children,and women without children.Using the form of questionary and resumes,the team found that Chinese women are indeed enduring subtle discrimination in work hiring.The experiment highlights the importance to promote further equality among women.However,there are some confounding variables,like the level of patient of the HR who reads the resume,affecting the ultimate result of the study.Keywords:gender discrimination,women’s career,Chinese job market,pregnancy discrimination,fertility rate in China.

A MATCH MADE IN MALAYSIA

As the sun dipped below the skyline of buildings composing the Xiamen University Malaysia Campus, Zhang Ke walked Limi Cally back to her car. They were not teachers or students at the satellite campus of Xiamen University, based in its namesake city in southeastern China’s Fujian Province, but builders of the second phase of the campus.

Tianjin Normal University Establishes Women's Studies Center

IN July, 1993, an international seminar titled "Chinese Women and Development—Status, Health and Employment" was sponsored by the Women’s Studies Center at Tianjin Normal University. More than 100 international and domestic specialists and workers who deal with women’s issues attended. At the conference, the Women’s Research Institute of the All-China Women’s Federation disclosed the results of an investigation about the status of women in China, which was launched in the early 1990s on a nationwide scale. The results showed that China’s economic reform has greatly affected women. As a result, many researchers who began their research by considering China’s present economic situation, tried to determine the influences the

七十五载立德树人强国建设奋楫新程

今年是中华女子学院建校75周年,也是加挂全国妇联干部培训学院牌子5周年。回顾75年历程,沐浴着党的关怀,在全国妇联的领导下,学校坚守为党育人、为国育才的初心使命,走过了为新中国培养女性建设者的光辉历程,走出来一条独具中国特色的女子高校发展之路,彰显了中国特色社会主义制度的无比优越。进入新时代,学校坚持以习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想为指导,一体化推进学历教育和妇联干部培训,在打造妇联干部培训阵地、培养高素质妇女人才、促进中外妇女交流交往、打造国家级妇女研究智库等方面取得优异成绩,绘就了新时代全面深化改革的女院画卷。迈上新征程,学校将锚定教育强国建设和妇女事业高质量发展目标,聚焦主责主业,发挥特色优势,坚持立德树人,深化教育综合改革,朝着高质量建设中国特色女子大学和妇联干部培训学院的目标砥砺奋进,为中国式现代化建设贡献力量。