The famous blind piano tuner Chen Yan established the website Beijing Piano Tuning Online at her own expense in order to popularize the piano knowledge, help more people realize the present situation that the blind persons engage in piano tuning in China so as to provide some conditions for the blind to get their job. In addition, she wrote three vivid touching articles on her special experience as in her school going over various difficulties, struggling in the cause of tuning as well as her social and family life with a plenty of her painstaking efforts. Those works, after publishing on the website, have moved countless readers, many of them finished their reading of her stories with tears.

    Chen Yan determined to have her works translated into English so that much more people at home and abroad could read her works and realize the difficult conditions the disabled persons, especially the visually impaired come across and their staunch spirit of fighting to pursue their cause in China. That idea has been given a hospitable support by Ms. Liang Xuan, who paid 2,000 yuan asking Mr. Zhou Youfei to translate the finalized text of MY CHILDHOOD and LIFE IN MY ADULTHOOD by Chen Yan into English. Such a philanthropic act to care for and help the handicapped persons embodies the lofty quality of Ms. Liang with a heart full of love and unselfish dedication to the weak crowd. It is a great encouragement and spur upon us to make our great efforts running the website better as well as a strong support to the construction of the website at the same time. Here we extend our heartfelt gratitude and very high compliments to Ms. Liang Xuan!