Fenshou: “I Was Once Engaged to a Chinese Man”

Posted in Fenshou on Apr 12th, 2013

A poignant and thoughtfully penned story of how one Western woman’s engagement to a Chinese man from a prominent Beijing family eventually ended.

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2013 Blogs by Western Women Who Love Chinese Men

Posted in Yangxifu Pride on Mar 8th, 2013

It’s March 8 — International Women’s Day — and time for an update to my list of blogs by Western women who love Chinese men!

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On Bainian — Chinese New Year’s Calls — And Those Annoying Questions From Relatives

Posted in Articles on Feb 18th, 2013

The other night, while talking to our close Chinese friend Caroline during Chinese New Year, my husband asked a common question. “Did you go out to bàinián?” Bàinián (拜年), of course, is the tradition of paying new year’s calls to your relatives and friends, usually by going over to their homes. Caroline laughed with embarrassment. [...]

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I’m a Feminist AND It’s Tradition in China? On Not Changing My Maiden Name

Posted in Articles on Oct 22nd, 2012

It’s rather ironic that I didn’t change my maiden name for feminist reasons, but yet this is in line with China’s longstanding tradition.

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Yin-Yang: “A Headstrong Australian Girl…Humbled By China”

Posted in Yin-Yang on Oct 19th, 2012

Christi, a self-described “headstrong Australian girl,” shares how she negotiates differences in her cross-cultural relationship with her Chinese fiancee.

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Ask the Yangxifu: My Chinese Boyfriend Doesn’t Express His Feeings

Posted in Ask the Yangxifu on Oct 12th, 2012

A Western woman wishes her Chinese boyfriend would tell her more than just a simple “I love you.”

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A Story of Sexism, Chinese Men and Who Should Wash the Dishes

Posted in Articles on Sep 3rd, 2012

I discovered that in China, sometimes one Chinese man’s “woman’s work” is another man’s work he would never let a woman do.

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Ask the Yangxifu: Should I Wear a Qipao in My Chinese Wedding?

Posted in Ask the Yangxifu on Aug 31st, 2012

Angie asks: My fiancee is Chinese and we’ve been debating dresses in the process of planning our wedding. His family is bent on having me wear a red qipao, they say it is the tradition. I wouldn’t mind wearing a qipao, but then my family is Irish on my mother’s side and they told me that [...]

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Shall We Dance? Yes…But Not in Public

Posted in Articles on Aug 27th, 2012

I never understood why my Chinese husband wouldn’t dance with me in public, until the movie “Shall We Dance” made me realize how embarrassing it was to him.

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