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 five consecutive years, the US has been the top destination for Chinese students studying abroad, according to a 2014 report from the Institute of International Education.
For months, the Obama administration has been putting pressure on its allies not to join the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank, which Washington sees as a potential rival to the World Bank and Asian Development Bank.
Duang - the word that's not really a word - is sweeping the Chinese Internet.
With the announcement that Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey circus would stop using elephants in all of its shows by 2018, animal lovers breathed a collective sigh of relief. Watching these magnificent beasts do what amount to stupid pet tricks is something this writer has never found even remotely entertaining.
Bombarded with non-stop festivities celebrating the Chinese New Year over the past four weeks, I have come to believe one thing about the Year of the Ram: it will see more Chinese enterprises continuing the trend of investing in the Bay Area.
It might be annoying to hear too many people talking on their cell phones in Shanghai's subway, but I became a bit desperate one day lately while riding the subway in New York, as there was no signal throughout the 40-minute ride and I wanted to inform a friend that I would be late for our meeting.
The West Coast port-labor dispute has bruised the apple-export industry in Washington state, the top producer of apples in the United States.
Zhiqing (literally "educated youth") was the name given to the young, ex-Red Guard of China who, during the Cultural Revolution, heeded Mao's call and were sent to remote parts of China to be "re-educated" in the fundamentals of living poor.
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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