Across America
| Culture Week A woman checks out a photo exhibit on Wednesday at the start of Liaoning Culture Week, so named for the northern Chinese province. The event, organized by Liaoning's provincial government and the Asian Cultural Center in Manhattan, concludes Saturday. New York Yu Wei / China Daily |
| Gubernatorial Guest Qiu Shaofang, China's consul general in Los Angeles, welcomes Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie at the diplomat's residence on Oct 19. Abercrombie told Qiu that Chinese tourism to Hawaii is on the rise. The island state is on pace to draw about 114,000 visitors from China this year. Los Angeles Provided to China Daily |
| Tech Unveiling Wang Hanguang (left), chairman of Hanhai Zhiye Investment Group in Beijing, chats with James Caldwell, CEO of E3Regenesis, a San Francisco environmental consulting firm, at Saturday's opening of the Hanhai-operated business incubator in Silicon Valley. Officials from Peking University Science Park attended the ceremony. Hanhai already runs business incubators for scientific and technology startups in several Chinese cities. San Jose, California Zhang Qidong / China Daily |
| Festival Finale Chinese actor Aaron Kwok and Chinese-American actress and documentary producer Lisa Lu attended the closing ceremony of the third New York Chinese Film Festival last week. Kwok won the Best Artist of Asia award at this year's festival. New York Zhang Yuwei / China Daily |
| Handmade Gift Zhang Limei (left), a volunteer at the Chinese Culture and Community Service Center, a nonprofit group that serves the Washington, DC, area's Chinese-American community, gives a T-shirt decorated with a panda she painted to a girl during an international festival on Sunday in Wheaton, Maryland. The festival included a pavilion that gave visitors a glimpse of Chinese culture. Maryland Cai Chunying / China Daily |
| Debate Prep China experts gathered for a panel discussion in conjunction with Monday's debate between US President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney. Attendees of the event, which was hosted by Johns Hopkins University's Paul H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies and the Committee of 100, included, from left: Benjamin Wu, Committee of 100 vice-chairman; Jeffrey Bader, a national security adviser to the Obama campaign; Aaron Friedberg, an adviser to Romney on Asia-Pacific affairs; and David Lampton, director of the SAIS China studies program. Washington Sun Chenbei / China Daily |
| Mo Takes Manhattan Natalie Pedersen, a marketing intern, reads a novel by Chinese writer Mo Yan, winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature, at a Barnes & Noble store in Manhattan. Several New York bookstores reportedly sold out of Mo Yan's books within two days of his Nobel win last week. This Barnes & Noble outlet replenished its stock of the writer's works this week and set up a special retail display including the novels Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out, The Republic of Wine, Shifu: You'll Do Anything for A Laugh and Big Breasts and Wide Hips. New York Yu Wei / China Daily |
