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 Miao Wang, a New York-based filmmaker, visited South Carolina in the summer to film a documentary about Chinese investment in the United States, she was surprised to see how little the local people knew about China.
A piece of good news is that there's been no sign of "donor fatigue". The world is on the side of those who are involved in this fight.
The retail data on both Black Friday in the US and the 11-11 "Valentine's Day" shopping spree in China show that a sizable number of the transactions were completed through handheld devices and the Internet, a trend that retailers and e-commerce enterprises might want to keep an eye on.
For Chinese coming to the United States, crossing streets and driving on highways in American cities is much less of a hair-raising experience.
Mark Twain once quipped that everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.
Every time Emily He, the chief marketing officer of Saba, travels to China, where more of her company's clients are headed, she sees changes.
Fear-mongering about everything related to China has long been a tool used by American politicians to distract the public from real domestic issues.
Ever since farmers in Xi'an accidently discovered what turned out to be a vast army of terracotta warriors, the world has gotten pretty used to treasures being unearthed in China, with its rich and mysterious past.
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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