One Western woman with a Chinese husband writes about love, family and relationships in China 洋媳妇看中国
Posted in Memoirs of a Yangxifu in China on Jul 21st, 2010
When John, my Chinese boyfriend, refused to eat my salad, that moment was a window into one major difference between our culinary cultures. In his village, nobody eats lettuce, unless it’s cooked.
Posted in Memoirs of a Yangxifu in China on Jul 12th, 2010
John and I go on a dead-end visit to an unsavory apartment building in China — in an effort to find a new place to live — and make the landlord angry with our disinterest.
Posted in Memoirs of a Yangxifu in China on Jul 7th, 2010
When you’re abroad, your brethren foreigners can sometimes be just as foreign to you as the locals, just as John and I discovered one night while dining on a bar street.
Posted in Memoirs of a Yangxifu in China on Jul 5th, 2010
In our old Shanghai town house, John and I faced a double infestation — cockroaches and rats — despite the popular wisdom that you can’t have both together.
Posted in Memoirs of a Yangxifu in China on Jun 30th, 2010
I brought my Shanghai neighbor chocolate, as a token of forgiveness — over a bicycle that I couldn’t park in her kitchen, which then got stolen outside — but never expected her to come back with her own sweet reply.
Posted in Memoirs of a Yangxifu in China on Jun 28th, 2010
I never should have left my bicycle outside of my apartment house. And I never should have expected the community to understand the theft of my bicycle.
Posted in Memoirs of a Yangxifu in China on Jun 23rd, 2010
My Chinese boyfriend John and I went to Su Causeway in Hangzhou not for the view or a walk, but to find the bench where we first kissed, and became a couple.
Posted in Memoirs of a Yangxifu in China on Jun 21st, 2010
My friend Chris had completely bought into Amway as a way of life, when he began working as a sales rep for them. But while I bought Amway vitamins, I wasn’t buying his sales pitch.
Posted in Memoirs of a Yangxifu in China on Jun 16th, 2010
During a reunion lunch with one of my favorite former Chinese coworkers, Jane, I discover she’s gone over to F@lun G0ng — and hopes John and I will too.
Posted in Memoirs of a Yangxifu in China on Jun 14th, 2010
When my computer needed fixing in Shanghai, I discovered a helpful — and friendly — face from the most unlikely person: a computer chat addicted, shy Shanghai college kid.
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