Tag Archive 'China memoir'

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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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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“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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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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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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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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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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The Top 5 “China Articles” of 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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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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The Sands, and Teahouses, of Time

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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