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Ask the Yangxifu: On Being Vegan in a Chinese Family

Posted in Ask the Yangxifu on Oct 28th, 2011

A reader asks me how my husband and Chinese family reacted to my vegan diet. Was it always happily vegan every after for us?

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The Chinese Relatives Name Game

Posted in China articles on Jun 27th, 2011

Keeping all of the names for your Chinese relatives together is not such an easy game after all.

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Ruzhui: When Chinese Men “Marry Into” Wife’s Family

Posted in China articles on Jun 20th, 2011

Ruzhui, where Chinese men “marry into” the wife’s family and have the child carry her name, turns Chinese marriage tradition upside down.

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Ask the Yangxifu: British Woman with Chinese Husband Lonely in Marriage

Posted in Ask the Yangxifu on Jun 3rd, 2011

A British woman, living with her Chinese husband in his isolated village, feels as if she’s missing some emotional support and more.

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My Chinese Mother-in-law and the Ring of Compliments

Posted in China articles on May 30th, 2011

When I told my Chinese mother-in-law I loved her ring, I never guessed I would have one of my own less than 24 hours later — a ring of compliments.

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One Chinese Woman Fears Marriage

Posted in China articles on May 23rd, 2011

It’s no secret that women in China worry about getting married. But I was surprised to learn that one Chinese woman’s worries came from fear of marriage.

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Shui Tu Bu Fu: A Tale of Two Noses

Posted in China articles on Mar 28th, 2011

My Chinese husband has sneezing fits in the US, I have them in his family home in China. And our only explanation is shuitu bufu.

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My Chinese Husband, Almost Switched at Birth

Posted in China articles on Jan 17th, 2011

When my Chinese husband was born, the neighbors wanted to swap him for their baby daughter. I couldn’t help but wonder what this said about women in China.

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Travel China with the Yangxifu: Mao Zedong’s Childhood House, Shaoshan, Hunan

Posted in Travel China with the Yangxifu on Nov 10th, 2010

Nestled in the sun-kissed hills of central Hunan, there’s an ordinary yellow mud-brick peasant house with a not-so-ordinary neighbor — a permanent People’s Liberation Army guard station. That humble — and now fortified — abode was laojia (老家, home) to one of China’s most commanding (and controversial) figures of the 20th century: Mao Zedong. In [...]

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Ask the Yangxifu: Too Many Concessions for a Chinese Family?

Posted in Ask the Yangxifu on Sep 17th, 2010

Are foreigners always the one to concede to a greater cultural tradition? Jocelyn conceded a lot to her Chinese family for her wedding — but, on the other hand, her family has perhaps given her far more back in return.

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