IDENTITY  ALWAYS PRESUPPOSING DIFFERENCE
--Interview with Maria Lucia, Cultural Attache in Embassy of Brazil
Article by CEG journalists: Yang Cheng Jiang Ling
Ethnic Affairs Work Conference Held in Beijing
Qinghai-Tibetan Railway sets open to traffic next year
ZHENG HE: AHEAD OF THE TRANS
-OCEANIC VOYAGES AND THE GREAT
GEOGRAPHICAL DISCOVERIES/by Tian Li

In 1497, the Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama led a fleet of four vessels around the Cape of Good Hope, entering the Indian Ocean and arriving to Calicut in India. The inhabitants told him that over 90 years earlier, a formidable fleet of vessels had already anchored there several times, each time arriving with several dozens of enormous and well-equipped junks and many more smaller ones.
That was the fleet led by Zheng He, the Chinese Qing's Dynasty navigator.
SOLVE A RIDDLE: WHY DID ZHENG HE SAIL TO THE WESTERN SEAS?-China¡¯s Own Vision of World Order / by Zheng Qian
Some wish to compare Zheng He's navigations with the explorations of western colonists after the 16th century. Actually, this kind of comparison lacks all foundation. The Ming Dynasty court neither sought to colonize lands overseas, nor did they wish to gain profits through trade. Not that they weren't capable, they simply never had it in mind!
MANAS: THE CHINESE EPIC THAT WILL NEED REWRITING IN THE ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA / by Gao Xingwu
The philosopher Hegel once said: China has no national epics. But this time, the great philosopher was wrong.
Manas: The Only Epic Of A Genealogical Character /by Langying
MANAS AND ACHILLES: A COMPARISON OF Ograve;MANAS Oacute; AND THE GREEK EPIC/ by Gao Xingwu
MY GRANDFATHER- A LIVING HOMER-THE STORY OF ZHUSUFU  MAMAYI
/ by Bahetiguli and  Su Simin
There is only one person in the world who has done it: to sing the entire 240,000 verses of the Kirgiz heroic epic "Manas"in one performance lasting three years and 285 days. If you were to place them all one on top of the other, the stack of books would be one meter high.
MANASCHIS: TEACHINGS FROM THE GODS RECEIVED IN A DREAM? /by Langying
If you ask a manaschi, a story teller of the great epic Ograve;Manas Oacute;, how he has learned the art of singing Manas, he will tell you about a dream he once had, where and when, and will tell you that upon awakening he could sing the whole epic.
PHOTOS OF CHINESE 2,000 YEARS AGO-Ntilde; STONE RELIEFS IN THE HAN DYNASTY/by Wang Hongzhen
Do you know what people looked like in the Han Dynasty 2,000 years ago? To my surprise, one day my dream came true. I really saw people of the Han Dynasty.

CHINA'SETHNIC MINORITIES ARE ADVANCING(I)/ by Ruan Xihu and Zheng Qian
The Chinese government proclaimed clearly:"The people of all ethnic groups are all masters of the state. Each ethnic group handles its own affairs independently." This indicates that China's 56 ethnic groups have set up a new relationship of equality.
THE TEMPTATION OF XIAHE COUNTY/by Jiang Ling
THE SHORT-SKIRTED (DUANQUNMIAO) MIAO PEOPLE OF HANGPI VILLAGE AT THE FOOT OF LEIGONGMOUNTAIN /by Sun Wuyang and Sun Mingguang
"Here is one of the best places for people to live;Here is the last homestead for people whose soul is debilitated"--From a report on the southeast region China's Guizhou Province by UNESCO
SCISSORS AND PAPER: DIALECTICS BETWEEN RIGIDITY
AND FLEXIBILITY/by Tian Li
In China's traditional cultural concepts, there exists dialectical relationship between scissors and paper, a relationship of rigidity and flexibility, dynamic and static and leadership and follower. It is the interaction of these pairs of contradictions that has given rise to a roposition- paper cutting.
SEARCHING FOR THE CULTURAL ROOTS OF PAPER-CUTS IN
SOUTHERN CHINA / by He Hongyi
KU SHULAN: A GENIUS OF  TRADITIONAL FOLK ART OF
PAPER-CUTTING /by Han Jing
THE"HOMETOWN"OF PAPER-CUTS/ by Zhou Zhaoming
SLENDER PAPER-CARVINGS OF LEQING CITY
MEXICAN PAPER-CUT AND CHINESE CULTURE / He Hongyi
ART WITHOUTBOUNDARY/ by  Yang Cheng
DRAW WITH DASH, ANDCREATE TO THE LIFE/by Yangzheng