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August 27, 2014
Known as the most outstanding Peking Opera performer of all time, Mei Lanfang (1894 -1961) is being remembered this week with presentations in New York City commemorating his birth 120 years ago in Beijing. In Mei's 50-year opera career, he portrayed female characters which won him international acclaim. His smooth, poised style is known as the Mei School. He was one of the Four Great Dan (female role) opera performers in the golden era of Peking Opera. In the Peking Opera, the female parts, like Shakespearean plays in England, were originally performed by men.
September 4, 2014
The US-China Summit (otherwise referred to as the “Summit”) was launched by the Friday Institute at North Carolina State University (NC State) and other educational partners in 2008 when the North Carolina State Board of Education signed an agreement with Jiangsu Provincial Department of Education in China to increase collaboration.
September 6, 2012
The US China Summit invites educators, policy makers, and business leaders to attend this conference to witness how North Carolina has made progress in Chinese language and cultural programs, and to collaborate toward increased partnerships and collaborations in the coming years.
August 15, 2014
Hong Kong director Patrick Lung Kong, who has inspired other Chinese contemporary directors like John Woo and Tsui Hark, will be honored by the Museum of the Moving Image in New York with a nine-film screening series. The series, which feature some of Lung Kong's rare films imported from Hong Kong, will start screening on Friday with The Story of a Discharged Prisoner, which was remade by Tsui and Woo in 1986 as A Better Tomorrow, starring Chow Yun-fat and Leslie Cheung.
August 13, 2014
Privately held renewables company Hanergy Holding Group Ltd, headquartered in Beijing, announced on Wednesday that it had acquired Alta Devices Inc, a California-based developer of high-efficiency thin-film solar cells. Hanergy reportedly bought all of Alta to strengthen its position in China's solar technology market, and to bring its thin-film solar technology to other sectors in addition to solar power stations.
August 8, 2014
Hollywood has welcomed a new neighbor from China with open arms - Wanda Group, China's largest commercial property developer and owner of the AMC theater chain. Wanda recently announced it would take over a plot at 9900 Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills and invest $1.2 billion in advancing its presence in Tinseltown. For Beverly Hills, Wanda is not the first Chinese film and media company poised to invest here.
August 12, 2014
Medical tourism, or traveling to another country for medical care, is a growing business and has now attracted the attention of private investors. Sequoia Capital, a US venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California, has invested in Saint Lucia Consulting Ltd, a Chinese company specializing in medical tourism. Saint Lucia, based in Beijing, brings Chinese patients to the US for treatment. Sequoia Capital China and Beijing Saint Lucia Consulting signed an agreement last month in which Sequoia agreed to invest 50 million yuan ($8.06 million) in the Chinese company.
August 9, 2014
There were more than 3,000 overseas Chinese attending the 12th annual Chinese American Olympics of Northern California hosted by NCCAF. It is the largest Chinese sporting competition outside the mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Twenty-seven local teams paraded into the stadium and performed at the beginning of the ceremony. More than 1,000 athletes joined competitions in 11 sport categories, from soccer, volleyball, basketball and baseball to swimming, tai chi and tug of war.
August 7, 2014
iDreamSky Technology Ltd, one of China's largest independent mobile game publishing platforms, went public on Thursday at the Nasdaq Stock Exchange, raising more than $115 million. Managers of iDreamSky's initial public offering sold 7.7 million American depositary shares (ADS) at $15 each, above the marketed range of $12 to $14 a share. Trading under the symbol "DSKY", the shares opened at $15 and hit a high of $19.05 in the early morning before eventually closing at $15.94, up 94 cents, or 6.3 percent.
May 28, 2014
For China-born William Wang, who just graduated from West Point, serving in the military is a way of showing his interest in "the prosperity of this nation". Aside from "the sense of purpose, pride and discipline" of the military, what also attracted Lt Wang to the military was the opportunity to promote Chinese Americans' voice in US society, which he thinks is disproportionately weak. Chinese Americans, he said, "typically favor careers in medicine, business, law and academia".