As the first rays of the morning sun spread across the village, an elderly farmer slowly walked toward his rice field. He stood quietly on the narrow earthen ridge, watching the morning breeze ripple through the emerald-green paddy. For a long moment, he said nothing. Then he reached...More

The development of modern technology can easily lead to misperceptions that infectious diseases can be effectively controlled in developed nations. For example, the last naturally occurring case of variole was diagnosed in October 1977, and the World Health Organization (WHO) certified the global eradication of the disease in...More

A group of about 40 teachers from Shanghai International Studies University (SISU) recently were given a "challenging" job: translate the history of the Communist Party of China (CPC) into seven different languages - English, Russian, French, Spanish, Arabic, German and Japanese, to help more foreigners better know and...More