Posted in Articles on Mar 18th, 2013
For Susan Blumberg-Kason, author of the forthcoming memoir “Good Chinese Wife,” divorcing her Chinese husband never meant having to divorce China as well.
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Posted in Articles on Mar 12th, 2012
Forbidden. That’s what someone once called my writing back in 2004 when I started sharing my relationships with Chinese men.
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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 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 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 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 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 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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