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.
It was appalling to learn on Tuesday that remains of US sailors were found on a US Navy destroyer that collided off Singapore the day before. It was even more troubling to realize that the pre-dawn collision was the fourth accident in the Pacific this year involving an American warship, including one that killed seven seamen in June.
A 24-foot-tall pyramid of boxes marked "sugar" in the middle of Times Square makes a point that's kind of hard to ignore.
About 300 ping-pong players in the San Francisco Bay Area gathered on Sunday morning to compete at three skill levels for a championship. It was the seventh consecutive year that San Francisco hosted a city-wide, day-long sporting event of this scale.
The United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, on Aug 6 and 9, respectively, 1945, to hasten Japan's unconditional surrender. The two bombs killed at least 129,000 people, most civilians.
While the attacks remain the only use of nuclear weapons in the history of warfare, the US had considered using such weapons during the Korean War from 1950 to 1953.
The year 1937 was a somber one for Chinese and Chinese Americans. It was the year that Japan invaded the mainland, and it concluded with the horrible Nanjing Massacre some 80 years ago.
Being an alumnus of the University of Virginia, my inbox has been lighting up with comments on the recent troubles in what I fondly remember as a quite bucolic place to go to school.
I have long understood that the Chinese and the US economies are intertwined and interdependent. I am also aware that collaborations between the two sides in the movie industry remain frequent and consistent.
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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