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.
In Minority Report, the 2002 Steven Spielberg sci-fi movie that takes place 50 years in the future, Tom Cruise plays an investigator with the "PreCrime" unit that collars "criminals" before they commit the crimes that three "precog" psychics predict they will soon commit.
Chinese cultural relics scattered overseas, in so many nefarious ways, are a constant reminder of the Chinese people's century-long, collective sense of shame and humiliation.
Giant panda cubs often steal the spotlight at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, such as the departure of female cub Bao Bao on Feb 21 and the weaning of male cub Bei Bei a few weeks later.
Chineasy founder ShaoLan Hsueh is on a mission to break down the language barrier surrounding Mandarin, any way she can.
Kentucky Fried Chicken has been in China now for almost 30 years, and what better circa-2017 way to celebrate that anniversary than with a smartphone rollout.
Along China's path of transforming from the world's leading manufacturer to a proponent of solar technology and products, the United States might find it worthwhile to digest and learn from China's approach to its visionary energy policy, its public-private technology partnership and commercialization of its technology and research.
Get your 4,000-year-old beer (recipe) here.
The tale of how March of the Volunteers became China's national anthem is one for the Robin Hood's barn file. Writer David Bandurski has done a nice job of laying it out for Quartz recently. What's interesting is that embedded in the piece's odyssey is a strong connection with the US.
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
