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 Washington last week, China and the United States successfully concluded their most important annual talks - the 7th China-US Strategic and Economic Dialogue and the 6th China-US High-Level Consultation on People-to-People Exchange - but a Pew Research Center survey released on the opening day of the talks on June 23 suggested that the two countries have much work to do for their people to like each other's countries.
Chinese and US officials held strategic talks in Washington this week, and now their respective women's soccer teams will have a people-to-people exchange on Friday in the quarterfinals of the 2015 Women's World Cup.
Industry practitioners and medical experts warmly welcomed visiting Chinese Vice-Premier Liu Yandong's call for more and deeper collaborations between China and the US on medical research and talent exchanges.
Over the past 18 months, the US' 50 governors have taken or scheduled about 80 trips abroad, mostly focused on boosting exports or recruiting businesses to their states. Here's a rundown of how many of those trips have been - or will be - to China.
It looks like the Chinese don't have as big a sweet tooth as the Hershey Co believed.
A quirky name for a Chinese restaurant in Rochester, New York, has generated the best kind of advertising: free.
Tuesday morning — June 16 — began with the usual chaos around the Dongfeng team base in Lorient, France, as the battered, exhausted but still "completely psyched" crew got on board and set off on the final leg of the Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15.
When China's Central Military Commission Vice-Chairman Fan Changlong led a high-level delegation to the United States last week, the news media mostly focused their attention on the thorny issues of the South China Sea and cyber security.
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.