One Western woman with a Chinese husband makes sense of China 洋媳妇谈中国
Posted in Memoirs of a Yangxifu in China on Mar 9th, 2010
When you live as a foreigner in China, sometimes you can’t help but feel like a child. Maybe it’s because you can’t speak the language — or stumble through it, like a toddler playing with sounds and words. Maybe it’s because you don’t read the signs, and feel as lost as a little kid, abandoned [...]
Posted in Memoirs of a Yangxifu in China on Mar 8th, 2010
When you live in a foreign country like China, it’s easy to get lost, to stumble, to make a wrong turn. But the wrong turn — or step — can cost you your time, your health or even, your trip to Hong Kong.
On the evening of December 28, 2002, I took the wrong step [...]
Posted in China articles on Mar 5th, 2010
Read this collaborative piece on interracial dating and marriages of Western women and Chinese men I did with Susan Chi, Melanie Gao, and Jessica Larson-Wang — for Middle Kingdom Life. It’s called “Western Wives, Chinese Husbands.”
We answer these questions:
Are Chinese men generally attracted to Western women? Are they representative of Chinese men in general?
Is there anything [...]
Posted in Ask the Yangxifu on Mar 5th, 2010
What should a cross-cultural couple (Chinese-foreigner) consider before moving to China — to live permanently? Here are some issues you should know ahead, from career and visa to the environment and real estate.
Posted in Memoirs of a Yangxifu in China on Mar 4th, 2010
When you’re in love, and only see each other every two weeks, on the weekends, you romanticize every meeting. You want it to be as perfect as a Tang-dynasty couplet, and script out the possibilities even before your lover arrives. You practice a new phrase, such as 望穿秋水 (wàngchuānqiūshuǐ – awaiting you with great anxiety), [...]
Posted in Memoirs of a Yangxifu in China on Mar 3rd, 2010
My Chinese boyfriend, John, faced a seemster of dormitory despair — while I helplessly looked on.
Posted in Ask the Yangxifu on Feb 26th, 2010
How can Western women and Chinese men get along? Jocelyn, who has been married to her Chinese husband since 2004, shares her experience.
Posted in Memoirs of a Yangxifu in China on Feb 25th, 2010
I wanted it to be just another Saturday — as it was to my Chinese coworkers. I rode the number 44 bus to the office, as always. I took the elevator up to floor 12. And when I came to my desk, there was my ex-Chinese boyfriend, Frank, still sitting next to me, as usual.
In [...]
Posted in Memoirs of a Yangxifu in China on Feb 24th, 2010
When you’re a foreigner in China, the most common phrase you might hear is: “Can you teach me English?” Your foreign face is like a walking advertisement that new friends or friends of friends can’t help but answer — because they live in a world where English could determine their future, or change their destiny.
Chinese [...]
Posted in Memoirs of a Yangxifu in China on Feb 23rd, 2010
In Chinese traditional medicine, there is a saying: anger hurts your liver, melancholy hurts your lungs, thinking hurts your spleen, happiness hurts your heart. The thing is, we are all angry, melancholy, happy, or just thinking at different times in life. What hurts is when we do it too much, without balance.
John, my Chinese boyfriend, [...]
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