A blog about love, family and relationships in China, including interracial and intercultural love. 洋媳妇谈中国
As a foreigner in China, sometimes your “foreign face” is your most useful asset. When my company attends a conference in Beijing, they bring me along, because my foreign face makes them look more international.
Read moreWhen Frank, my ex-Chinese boyfriend, and I were forced together against our will — attending a conference in Beijing — he used language to create distance, making his heart as fortified as the Forbidden City in Beijing once was.
Read moreTo wish readers a happy Chinese New Year, I offer a downloadable picture of the Chinese character for tiger, and the chance to win one of five originals.
Read moreA Chinese doorman suddenly closes the door to friendship (or more) with a foreign woman. Ask the Yangxifu offers some insight into why this happened.
Read moreAre Mandarin-speaking foreigners the only ones who can integrate into China? Or will foreigners always be foreigners no matter what (and stand apart from the crowd)? My European friend Camille posed the question to me one evening during a walk in Hangzhou.
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Even though my Chinese boyfriend, John, was going to Shanghai for graduate school, what he left behind warmed my heart.
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On an afternoon alone, as I read through “A Dream of Red Mansions,” and lost power in my apartment, I wondered what would happen in my life without my Chinese boyfriend, John, who was leaving Hangzhou for graduate school in Shanghai.
Read moreWas I asking too much, to be the foreign girlfriend of a Chinese man? I wondered, after he told me his parents thought we shouldn’t date.
Read moreDoes dating past matter to Chinese men? Ask the Yangxifu advises a girl who wonders if a Chinese man won’t accept her because she’s “experienced.”
Read moreMy Chinese boyfriend John and I didn’t just climb a mountain that afternoon — we climbed back into love, after a morning when I wondered if my shadows would push him away.
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