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.
Just in time for the season of reform and New Year's resolutions, comes a new book that uses ancient Chinese philosophy to argue that sometimes trying hard is not the best way to get ahead.
Doyers Street in New York's Chinatown has seen some changes the last few years, but if the tourists and hipsters had taken a stroll there some 100 years ago, there's a good chance they'd be ducking bullets.
As time passes, we lose more of our World War II veterans, a reminder of how important it is to preserve history.
The Hollywood movie Unbroken, produced and directed by Angelina Jolie, reached movie theaters across the United States on Dec 25, just a day after right-wing Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was re-elected to a third term.
Joseph Stiglitz, one of the world's most influential economists today, sounded some serious warnings to US policy and law makers in his article China Century in the latest Vanity Fair magazine.
Families and school administrators need to keep vigilant to any form of bullying in schools and act quickly to stop the malicious and shield the young and vulnerable from falling victims to bullying.
China announced late last week that its Academy of Military Medical Sciences has developed an Ebola vaccine that has been approved to enter the human test stage.
Since the Senate report on CIA torture was made public last week, it has raised some serious questions, such as whether the United States is still practicing or will continue to practice water-boarding, sleep deprivation and other appalling interrogation techniques, especially in a time of imminent threat to national 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.
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