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.
Predicting earthquakes is one of those holy grails of science that seems will be out of reach forever. But every time a big one strikes and wreaks havoc and tragedy, the tendency is to turn to the experts and ask why couldn't there have been at least some warning?
World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim believes the next president of the bank should be decided on merit rather than nationality.
The recent move in the United States against foreign news organizations that receive government funding has raised serious concerns about press freedom and political bias toward certain countries.
Have smartphones gotten too smart for their own good?
There seem to be some persistent questions about the origin of chess, this writer's favorite game.
Amy Xu, a resident of Northern California's Marin County, is a frequent visitor to the Golden State's wine country - Napa Valley and Sonoma in particular. Less than an hour's drive from her home, the vineyards, wineries and moments of sipping wine in the sun are "what heaven should look like to me", said the businesswoman in her 50s.
At a recent China town hall held by the New York-based National Committee on US-China Relations, Susan Rice, the former US national security advisor, said China remains the most reliable whipping boy - after probably Hillary Clinton and Susan Rice herself - for domestic political discourse in the context of a campaign.
As a Chinese living and working in the United States, daylight saving time (DST) is one of those things, for good or bad, that amaze me. The other would be the absence of a metric system that makes it hard for me to tell my height and weight in feet and pounds, and the rendering of the temperature in Fahrenheit.
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
