A Danish prince haunted by his father's ghost. A delusional Spanish knight jousting with windmills. A Chinese beauty falling into an enchanted dream next to a Peony Pavilion.
It takes about 20 Chinese parents, 11 elementary schools throughout the Bay Area and a small army of volunteers to stage the series of celebrations planned for the upcoming Chinese New Year, or the Lunar New Year, which will fall on Jan 28.
Ambassadors rarely air their concerns about their host countries to those nations' citizens.
Despite predictions that US President Donald Trump's statements and actions might reduce the number of tourists from China and other countries visiting the US during the summer, the head of a US nonprofit travel promotion agency said early indications show a steady stream of visitors.
While Boeing is usually the first company mentioned as a potential casualty if the US and China engaged in a trade showdown, for now business between the American aircraft giant and China is booming, reciprocal and cordial.
Gracie Li holds her breath, eyes wide open, as she follows the intense plots on Friday night of The Red Sorghum, a dance drama adapted from Nobel Prize laureate Mo Yan's 1986 novel and brought to the US by the Qingdao Song and Dance Theatre from Shandong province.
It is sobering to learn that Florida, known among Chinese for being a popular tourist destination and a place where heads of state of the two countries held their first meeting in April, is being devastated by the Hurricane Irma.
Hooray for Hollywood could become Goodbye to Hollywood, at least as it pertains to current movie-viewing trends.
Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick estimated that 15,000 to 20,000 boaters sprung into action voluntarily in response to the flooding in Houston from Hurricane Harvey — private boaters, some of them with nothing more than Zodiac inflatable dinghies.
The annual BRICS summit that concluded in China's Xiamen city on Tuesday has drawn the world's attention to the member nations' tremendous accomplishments and promise.
An editor and writer at China Daily USA in New York, William Hennelly is a print and digital media veteran. He previously was managing editor of TheStreet.com financial news website in New York, and has worked at daily newspapers in New Jersey. Hennelly is a journalism graduate of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.
General manager of China Daily USA's San Francisco bureau. Based in the Bay Area, she covers a wide range of topics including corporate news, Silicon Valley innovation, US-China cooperation in various forms and profiles of interesting personalities, as well as overseeing office operations.
Chen Weihua is the Chief Washington Correspondent of China Daily and Deputy Editor of China Daily USA. He is also a columnist, with a particular focus on US politics and US-China relations.
A copy editor and writer with China Daily USA in New York, Chris Davis is a graduate of the University of Virginia and served two years as a volunteer with the United States Peace Corps in Kenya.
US President Donald Trump visits China
