Posted in Double Happiness on Oct 7th, 2011
“A Western woman walks into a bar…” sounds like the start of a joke. But instead of coming back with a punchline, a number of Western women came back with Chinese men who they would eventually marry. Featuring stories from Jo Kelly-Bai, Kelly Sandor-Yang, and White Girl in a Chinese-American World.
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Posted in Ask the Yangxifu on Sep 2nd, 2011
You might call them our “yangxifu grandmothers,” the Western women of the past who paved the way for us to love/marry Chinese men. Here’s my list of six prominent women.
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Posted in China articles on May 9th, 2011
Okay, it may only be May — but in the Hangzhou region, where my Chinese husband’s family lives, summer is on like a renao Chinese wedding banquet.
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Posted in China articles on Mar 7th, 2011
My 2011 update of all the blogs by Western women who love Chinese men, including authors, mothers, scholars, translators, teachers and truly unique souls.
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Posted in China articles on Feb 10th, 2011
International love doesn’t come easy, especially between an American woman and Chinese man. I tell my story in this piece, published in Matador.
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Posted in China articles on Dec 27th, 2010
Sexy Chinese men, shortcomings, stereotypes and Chinese husbands are part of the top five posts in my “China Articles” category, by views, for 2010.
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Posted in Ask the Yangxifu on Nov 12th, 2010
A list of books with Chinese men and Western women in love, Inspired by the previous question I answered about movies.
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Posted in China articles on Oct 4th, 2010
When love bubbled over with my first Chinese boyfriend in his favorite Taiwanese teahouse, I tried to hold on to that sweetness of what we had through this place he left behind.
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The top 10 most popular moments, by views, in Memoirs of a Yangxifu — the story of love, cultural understanding and eventual marriage between one American woman from the city and one Chinese man from the countryside.
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In China, lovers are often said “to have the destiny to meet across one thousand li.” For my Chinese husband, John, and I, it wasn’t just one thousand li — it was ten thousand li.
In this entry, I’ll look back on the series, Memoirs of a Yangxifu, and also announce a new posting schedule for the blog.
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