Posted in Ask the Yangxifu on Dec 17th, 2010
A London woman wonders if a Chinese man in her Beijing office is interested in her for dating. But she’s afraid of misreading his intentions.
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Sometimes the best China travel happens off the tourist circuit. Find the more everyday side of China, and/or Chinese culture, on your trip, with these ideas.
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Posted in Ask the Yangxifu on Oct 29th, 2010
A list of those rare movies that portray love, romance and/or marriage between Chinese men and Western women.
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Posted in China articles on Oct 11th, 2010
Yes — Chinese men can be sexy! Despite Hollywood and all the stereotypes, Western women like me have discovered some serious Chinese studs, who slid their way into our hearts (and pants).
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Beijing’s Yuanmingyuan Park, or the Old Summer Palace, is a a quiet reminder of foreign aggression on China and the country’s past humiliation.
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Sometimes, you hit walls in life in China. And sometimes, you hit walls on the way to the Great Wall. When my Chinese boyfriend and I toured Beijing, we discovered the obstacles that come when you’re young and traveling China on a budget.
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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.
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When 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.
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Posted in China articles on Aug 3rd, 2009
It has barely been five days since I returned to the US, yet my mind is lost once again in China. I had some shocking experiences, such as hearing stories from my heart surgeon friend in Beijing. I had to convince my father-in-law to give up on nucleic acids, and never take them again. I [...]
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Posted in China articles on Jun 20th, 2009
For those of you who don’t know, this year marks the tenth anniversary of my first landing in China — August 27, 1999. That day, when I stumbled into Beijing’s old international airport, never did I realize it would change my life entirely. That I would spend the majority of the next ten years living [...]
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