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 Hi, friends, you are welcomed to come to my own personal web site Shirley's World. that was thought in September, 2004 and be really started to build since May, 2005.
I had being thinking of writing something to introduce it, but for I had no time enough and I had not thought of many problems clear until now.
 WHY I WANT TO SET UP A PERSONAL WEB SITE?
First of all, since I started to learn art and music in my free time in November 2002 and March 2003, I wished to have a room to save and record my learning process.
Secondly, since I started to work on the Internet in 1997, I have been got many questions about China and Chinese culture. I wanted to answer these questions and help those friends who are interested in China and Chinese Culture and Chinese language while to improve myself.
Thirdly, as a manager, I am working on something too serious with many responsibilities. To set up and run a personal web site with art, music, language and culture learning as a hobby, is really something more fun and easier, it is really something that have brought many smiles via a creative work according to my own will.
For distinguishing my own hubbies and my business work, I hired my server, database and entrusted my technology company in Beijing. And I started to build my own web site from May Day Holiday in 2005.
WHO ARE THE TARGET USERS OF SHRLEEY'S WORLD?
The people who are interested in China's culture and Chinese language learning.
WHAT WILL I PURSUING?
I. Saving, showing and recording my works of painting, music, calligraphy, something I have collected and have written about Chinese culture, to prepare to do something more someday.
II. Creating my own style, to help people to learn Chinese language:
1. Via offering vocabulary in Chinese to help the beginners to touch Chinese language.
2. Via introducing classical poems, daily Chinese to help middle level poeple to learn Chinese characters and sentences.
3. Via creating my own music and calligraphy to catch classical poems, offering modern lyrics and singing to improve people's listening ability in Chinese.
4. Via offering Chinese culture phenomenas to give the Chinese language learning a background.
5. Via offering some translation to help the advanced level people to enjoy Chinese language...
III. Via offering the services online to exchange different cultures and to build a garden of friendship.
After making these dreams to be true, I will entrust the web site or most of the work on the web site to someone else and I will focus myself on enjoying the delight of art, music and language learning itself...
THE STRUCTURE OF SHIRLEY'S WOLRD :
 Part I: Shirley's Art, Music, Calligraphy, Language Learning and Creations
1. Shirley Created Art Works
-- Gouaches
-- Chinese Xieyi Paintings -- Freehand Brushworks
-- Chinese Gongbi Paintings -- Realistic Paintings
2. Shirley's Music & Creation
--Shirley's Created Music
-- Shirley Sung Chinese Folk Songs
-- Shirley Sung Chinese Art Songs
-- Shirley Sung Chinese Popular Songs
-- Shirley Sung English Songs
-- Chinese Instrumental music
3. Shirley's English Writing Learning & Creation
-- Shirley's Blog Writing
-- Shirley's Poem Writing
-- Shirley's Art Note Writing
-- Shirley's Traveling Diary Writing
-- Shirley's Life Diary Writing
Part II: Shirley's Chinese Language and Chinese Culture
1. Shirley's Chinese Language Teaching
-- Chinese Classical Poems
-- Daily Chinese
-- Vocabulary in Chinese
-- Chinese Modern Lyrics
-- Chinese Vs. English
2. Shirley's Chinese Culture Introduction
-- Chinese Custom
-- Chinese Language
--Chinese Tour
-- Chinese Art
-- Chinese Painting
-- Chinese Music
Part III: Friendship
1. Shirley's Weekly Friendly Greeting
2. Shirley's Friends & Friend's Works
-- Friends
-- Friend's Works: English Lesson
-- Friend's Works: Cultures
-- Friend's Works: Responding
Part IV: Service
-- Register
-- Message Board
--Chinese Software Download
-- Realplay Download
-- Festival Cards: For Christmas Day
-- Festival Cards: For Valentine's Day & Spring Festival
-- Weekly Newsletter
Part V : About Shirley
-- About Shirley
--About Shirley's World
--Shirley's Photos
WHO ARE WORKING ON SHIRLEY'S WORLD?
Shirley Zhang -- The Soul, Founder and Author of Shirley's World. You can hit the link to know something about me.
Charlie Zhang -- One of the founders of Shirley's World and One of the Technology Supporters of Shirley's World. You can hit the link to know something about him.
Peter den Heyer -- One of the Volunteer Friends From Holland Who I Have Not Met Yet. He is a retired official with rich management experience. He has been helping me to correct my English writing on the web site since December 2006. (I will write an article about him later)
Mike Joyce -- One of the Volunteer Friends from England Whom I Have not Seen Yet. He started to work on the web site to help me to correct my English writing since May 2005. You can hit the link to know something more about him.
Now the web site has had the ability to support people to work on it at any time from any place in the world. If you are a friend who is native English speaker and is interested in the Chinese culture and language, you are welcomed to join the work on the web site as a volunteer. Maybe we can create something positive, meaningful and helpful together, to help the others and to improve ourselves?
As far as the future of the little web site and the value of our work, it is relying on your confidence in me and in yourself. We can imagine.
 If you have any questions, comments and suggestions, please write to shirley@ebridge.cn or shirleyz004@yahoo.com. You are welcome to publish your opinions in Forum For Friends as well.
Shirley Zhang
Written and Edited on Thursday, Feb 22 -- March 25 2007
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