Across Americas
Updated: 2013-05-31 14:26
(China Daily)
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A dose of US foreign policy Former US Labor Secretary Elaine Chao speaks on Wednesday evening at the 10th Foreign Policy Colloquium held by the National Committee on US-China Relations at the George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs. Each year, about 150 to 200 Chinese graduate students from universities across the US travel to Washington for the 3-day event, interacting with current and former administration offcials, members of Congress as well as representatives from academia, the military, think tanks, lobbying firms and the media. Washington Sun Chenbei / China Daily |
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Dance envoys The Embroidery Girl, a dance drama from China, will be staged at Washington's Kennedy Center on Friday and Saturday. Members of the production met with the media at the Chinese Culture and Community Service Center on Wednesday. From left: director Wang Xing; Liu Zhongbao, president of Jiangsu Wuxi Performing Arts Group, which is producing the show; and Jon Liu, president of AGIS Center for Arts and Humanities, which brought the show to the US. The drama, featuring 60 folk dancers performing against a backdrop of silk embroideries, is about a talented young woman's artistic and romantic pursuits. Gaithersburg, Maryland Cai Chunying / China Daily |
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Dancing for health Dancers perform a dance dating to the ancient Silk Road outpost of Dunhuang during a May 25 benefit for the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada. Proceeds from the annual fund-raiser go to Chinese-language health research and education programs on minimizing the risks of heart disease and stroke. Markham, Ontario Li Na / China Daily |
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Venture views Jim Wening (left), Chase Bank's head of middle-market banking in Northern California, listens to Victor Wang, president of Hanhai Investment Group USA, the firm behind a major US-China technology business incubator in Silicon Valley, at a May 23 forum co-hosted by the Silicon Valley Business Journal and the Asia Society. San Jose, California Zhang Qidong / China Daily |
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Leadership assessment China's economic and political outlook under President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang was the topic of a discussion on Thursday at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. From left: Kiyoyuki Seguchi, research director at Japan's Canon Institute for Global Studies; Junhua Wu, a senior scholar at the Wilson Center and chief economist at the Japan Research Institute in Shanghai; and J. Stapleton Roy, a former diplomat who heads the Wilson Center's Kissinger Institute on China and the United States. Washington Chen Weihua / China Daily |
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China In Canada As part of Canada's Asian Heritage Month, the York Regional Police hosted a May 26 event featuring Chinese and Indian food as well as music and dance performances. Police Chief Eric Jolliffe (center) presented a certificate to the Northern Legs and Southern Fists lion-dance troupe from Toronto's Chinatown in recognition of their contribution to the region's diversity. Stouville, Ontario Li Na / China Daily |
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Ancient Treasures During a tour of Manhattan's Rubin Museum of Art on Wednesday, guide Evan Goodman describes how ancient Buddhist sculptures were made. The museum is devoted to Himalayan art from collections in China, India, Iran, Central Asia and Southeast Asia, including paintings, sculptures, textiles, ritual objects and prints from the 2nd century to the 20th. The exhibition From India East: Sculpture of Devotion from Brooklyn opened this week and runs until July 2014. It traces the origins of Buddhist and Hindu sculpture in Asia. New York Caroline Berg / China Daily |
(China Daily USA 05/31/2013 page13)
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