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Ask the Yangxifu: Chinese New Year Red Envelopes For Boyfriend?

Posted in Ask the Yangxifu on Jan 20th, 2012

A Western woman wants to give her Chinese boyfriend hongbao/lai see because he’s younger, but those red envelopes are really more for kids.

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Ask the Yangxifu: Carolyn J. Phillips On Charming A Chinese Family Through Food

Posted in Ask the Yangxifu on Jan 13th, 2012

Accomplished Chinese food writer and yangxifu Carolyn J. Phillips talks with me about food and what it takes to charm your Chinese family at the table.

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Ask the Yangxifu: Holiday Gift Roundup for Chinese Friends & Loved Ones

Posted in Ask the Yangxifu on Nov 25th, 2011

To make your holiday to-do list a little easier, I’m rounding up all of my gift-giving advice in one easy post. Includes ideas for your Chinese friends and family, as well as hosts and even business associates.

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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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With A Little Help From Our Ancestors

Posted in China articles on Oct 10th, 2011

My Chinese husband changed how I turned to higher powers for help. I had left the Catholic church behind long before I met him. But his tradition of ancestor worship provided me with the sense of hope I needed on a hopeless Friday afternoon.

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What if My Chinese Husband Was The Only Child?

Posted in China articles on Sep 26th, 2011

After pondering questions about the One-Child Policy — and how most young Chinese men today had no siblings — I wondered: what would it be like if my Chinese husband were an only child?

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Ask the Yangxifu: Chinese Wedding Gifts for the Parents

Posted in Ask the Yangxifu on Sep 23rd, 2011

What gifts should you give to the parents for a Chinese wedding? I offer examples of wedding gifts in China, and suggestions on what to bring.

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All You Need Is Destiny

Posted in China articles on Sep 19th, 2011

In marriage, is love really destiny? That’s what I wondered after my Chinese sister-in-law gave me that definition for love among married couples.

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The Sanshi’erli Scare: Over Thirty and Still A Student?

Posted in China articles on Sep 12th, 2011

“You’re too old to be a student.” That’s what my Chinese husband’s family and friends told him, because he’s over thirty with no career and no child.

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Ask the Yangxifu: Six Western Women of the Past who Married Chinese Men

Posted in Ask the Yangxifu on Sep 2nd, 2011

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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