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.
The wealthy Chinese-American investor is not only savvy but also reliant on traditional Chinese virtues such as patience and passing wisdom down through generations.
The Nobel Prize for Medicine awarded this week focuses on three dreadful parasitic diseases - elephantiasis, river blindness and malaria - that still ravage mankind, "debilitating diseases that affect hundreds of millions people annually", the Nobel Committee said in its citation.
The Chinese community in the Bay Area is still in a festive mood although Chinese President Xi Jinping wrapped up his state visit to the US last week and returned to Beijing.
Zbigniew Brzezinski, a leading American strategic thinker, believes China and the United States should work more closely and avoid doing things unnecessarily provocative to each other.
A US company and a Chinese counterpart are teaming up to battle cancer, using technology in the fight against the deadly disease.
In all of the hubbub of news this week about President Xi Jinping's visit, the pope and the UN, some good news for elephants came and went without half the fanfare it deserved.
The first official state visit to the United States by President Xi Jinping has been applauded as a great success, despite skepticism expressed by some before the trip.
It is the same case with China and the US in terms of developing Internet industries and enhancing cybersecurity. The two countries have to put aside conflicts and differences and seek common ground.
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.
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