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Art show turns rural NY into a Chinese soundscape

[2013-04-12 11:19]

During the decades in which pop music and culture were, among other things, helping solidify America's tradition of sound art, China was essentially in a cultural vacuum.

Study sees US, China as economic referees for globe

[2013-04-12 11:19]

As the world's top economic powers, the United States and China should pick up where international bodies have failed and assert leadership to better govern the global economy, two academics argue in a new study.

Wesleyan College opens Confucius Institute

[2013-04-12 11:19]

The longstanding connection between Wesleyan College and China, and especially their link to the legendary Soong Sisters, was highlighted at the dedication of a new branch of the Confucius Institute at the Macon, Georgia school.

Slowdowns cloud US-based Chinese business plans

[2013-04-12 11:19]

Sam Zhu may live and work in the Big Apple, but his pastime is dabbling in business opportunities in China.

Kerry visit could set tone for new US-China ties

[2013-04-12 11:19]

US Secretary of State John Kerry will arrive in Beijing on Saturday, kicking off his first visit to China since taking office in February.

Orchestra ready for China encore

[2013-04-12 11:19]

The Philadelphia Orchestra, one of the United States' first cultural ambassadors to China in 1973, is returning next month for a 40th-anniversary tour and its 2013 residency program.

Michigan visitors see lessons in China's schools

[2013-04-11 10:54]

When Tom Watkins, a former Michigan education chief, first visited China 24 years ago, he rubbed his eyes while looking at a map of the world.

California reopens trade office in China

[2013-04-11 10:54]

California will reopen its Trade and Investment Office in Shanghai on Friday, 10 years after it shuttered office doors in 2003.

Confucius Institute opens in DC

[2013-04-11 10:54]

Chinese and American dignitaries opened the first Confucius Institute in the US capital, expressing hope for a flowering of cooperation in education.

Columbia opens Confucius Institute

[2013-04-10 10:58]

More than a century of relations between Columbia University and China were highlighted in a ceremony inaugurating the opening of the Confucius Institute at the New York school.

China OKs US-made bird flu drug

[2013-04-10 10:58]

When China's Food and Drug Administration last week announced approval of the experimental drug Peramivir for use in combating the recent H7N9 bird-flu outbreak in the country, the drug's US manufacturer found out like everyone else: from news reports.

Activists seek Obama apology over 1882 anti-Chinese law

[2013-04-10 10:58]

In 1943, more than 60 years after it was enacted, Congress finally repealed the Chinese Exclusion Act, a discriminatory law that had suspended Chinese immigration to the United States and prevented those already in the country from becoming citizens. It was a historic move that gave the Chinese-American community justice for the first time since the late 19th century.

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