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.
For tens of millions Chinese lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals living in the shadow of invisible discrimination and social isolation, the group wedding for seven gay and lesbian couples from China on June 9 in West Hollywood, California, was nothing short of inspiring.
While China has taken steps to reduce widespread cigarette smoking, it is also the source of most electronic cigarettes, an expanding global market for which a US senator has called for more oversight.
It's little wonder that the giant panda is the darling of China and considered a national treasure.
China is adopting a more welcoming attitude for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a US-led free-trade agreement now being negotiated by 12 countries.
Chinese railroad workers played a vital role in the 1860s construction and completion of the first transcontinental railway in the US.
While cyber hacking and the South China Sea continued to dominate headlines regarding China and the US over the past week, news came that Evan Medeiros, senior director for Asian affairs at the National Security Council, stepped down last Thursday.
MERS - Middle East Respiratory Syndrome - was first reported on the Arabian Peninsula in 2012. Since then, there have been 1,154 confirmed cases of MERS worldwide leading to 431 deaths.
The US real estate market has seen in recent years a surge in Chinese capital in both the commercial and residential markets. A report by Knight Frank said that the value of Chinese investments in US real estate had grown from $600 million in 2009 to a whopping $12 billion in 2013.
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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