In a YouTube video, two musicians play the violin and the bass in Brooklyn, New York, and placed in front of them are a few glass jars. One is labeled "slow down", one "fast forward", another says "Lady Gaga", "Bach" and even "Michael Jackson".
For 13-year-old Apollo Mettler, each week's Chinese class had always been his happiest hour during his eight years of home schooling.
John G. Chou, general counsel at AmerisourceBergen Corporation, was honored with the 2014 Justice in Action Awards at the 40th anniversary celebration of the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF).
The passion for engaging in mutual exchanges and fostering strong bonds between US states and cities with Chinese provinces and cities will be evident.
More than 60 million American and Chinese viewers have watched the second season of House of Cards since it was released on Netflix in February, according to the March 19 press release.
Born in 1970 in rural China and growing up through hardship, Zhao Meiping could only afford formal education through elementary school. She had to drop out and go to work in a quarry when she was 12 years old. Yet she strived and thrived, eventually becoming an editor at a magazine in China.
A business delegation from Jilin province was in New York to promote bilateral culture trade in New York recently, presenting their products and companies to an audience comprised of US and Chinese business people.
As scholars and academics continue efforts to encourage the study of China, Pace University, in Lower Manhattan, is trying an alternative tack to promote its students' interests in the world's second-largest economy - by subsidizing a chance to study abroad.
For decades, China has capped foreign automakers' stakes in joint ventures with domestic car companies at 50 percent. When China's Ministry of Commerce last fall proposed a rule change that would permit foreign partners to own more than half of a Chinese automotive joint venture, the announcement touched off a fierce debate between policymakers and state-owned car companies over how to boost the domestic auto industry.
Consul General Sun Guoxiang (center in yellow tie) of the Chinese Consulate General in New York held a reception for Chinese media on March 21.
Jamie Lewis, owner of Islandz Tours, a local tourism agency in Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas - an island country located in the Atlantic Ocean just east of Florida - will bring his business to China next month.
For Betty Tang, a Chinese American who is making a bid for a seat on the Walnut City Council, courage and wisdom are arming her for a political battle against candidates with ties to both Sacramento and Washington DC.
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