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Chapter 70: Tested Under the Shanghai Heat

Posted in Memoirs of a Yangxifu in China on May 31st, 2010

Under the fierce July heat in Shanghai, I was tested when the neighborhood filled with the din of a city works project.

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Ask the Yangxifu: Chinese Parents, Pressure and a Preemie Baby

Posted in Ask the Yangxifu on May 28th, 2010

The pressure is on when a mixed couple and their baby live in the Chinese parents’ extra flat. How can they balance independence with their parents’ need for control?

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Chapter 69: The Bad Luck Kittens

Posted in Memoirs of a Yangxifu in China on May 26th, 2010

Someone in Shanghai dumped newborn kittens into a garbage can near my office — all over superstition. I wonder when luck was more important than life.

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Chapter 68: The Soliciting Shanghai Peddlers

Posted in Memoirs of a Yangxifu in China on May 24th, 2010

My new community warned “no solicitors” at every gate, but all but turned away the bicycling peddlers, whose sonorous voices announcing wares for sale turned daytime peace into a memory.

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Ask the Yangxifu: Chinese Men and the Marriage Proposal

Posted in Ask the Yangxifu on May 21st, 2010

If your Chinese man likes it, how does he put a ring on it? Jocelyn takes on the topic of creative marriage proposals from Chinese men.

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Chapter 67: One Landlord, One Less Deposit

Posted in Memoirs of a Yangxifu in China on May 19th, 2010

When John and I decide to move in Shanghai — before our lease is up — all understanding gets flushed down the drain by a not-so-understanding landlord.

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Chapter 66: Garbage in the Long Peace

Posted in Memoirs of a Yangxifu in China on May 17th, 2010

John and I may have lived in a Shanghai district called “Long Peace” — but nighttime was anything but peaceful once we discovered the nighttime garbage collection.

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Ask the Yangxifu: Feeling Big in Little China

Posted in Ask the Yangxifu on May 14th, 2010

A Western woman with a normal body size plans to move to China with her Chinese boyfriend, but worries about her body image around thinner Asian women. How can she cope when she moves to China, and is surrounded by many women who are smaller than her?

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Travel China with the Yangxifu: Suzhou’s Wedding Gown Street

Posted in Travel China with the Yangxifu on May 12th, 2010

Are you engaged? Living in or going to China? Consider a visit to Suzhou’s Wedding Gown Street, where bridal beauty of your dreams is a bargain.

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Chapter 65: SARS Propaganda and False Security

Posted in Memoirs of a Yangxifu in China on May 10th, 2010

As SARS spread across China, SARS propaganda spread over the TV reels on my bus in Shanghai, along with a sense that everything was okay, even if it wasn’t.

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