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.
When senior US officials point fingers at China over maritime territorial disputes in the South China Sea - more recently at China's land-reclamation activities there - many Chinese see the criticism as having an ulterior motivation.
"Chinatown is at a tipping point," says Linda Chen, speaking of Boston's long-established Chinese neighborhood.
For China, South American countries are the farthest away in geographical distance, but the Chinese like the quote "a bosom friend afar brings a distant land near" by Tang Dynasty poet Wang Bo 1,300 years ago to describe the friendship.
The US gambling capital Las Vegas turns 110 this month, and the latest entry on the city's famed Strip will be the first Chinese-themed resort, which will seek to capitalize on the surge of millions of Chinese tourists to America.
China recently more than doubled its tax on cigarettes, but still isn't taxing smokers as much as the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends.
China remains a lucrative market with tremendous potential for virtually any business.
Most recently it was American Airlines last week launching daily Dallas-to-Beijing service, giving Dallas/Fort Worth airport, in the space of one year, what the CAPA Centre for Aviation in Sydney calls "the trifecta of Greater China destinations": Beijing, Hong Kong and Shanghai.
A front page story in the Sunday edition of The Washington Post details how the US government has been waging a propaganda war in its efforts to defeat and degrade the Islamic State.
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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