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Double Happiness: The Accidental Online Dater

Posted in Double Happiness on Nov 4th, 2011

A white American woman tells the story of how a free online dating account she never intended to use led her to her Chinese future husband.

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Jewish Women & Chinese Men in Love: Article Pub’d in Asian Jewish Life

Posted in China articles on Oct 31st, 2011

Asian Jewish Life published my article “Chosen Women and Chinese men: a Tradition of Love?”

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To My Chinese Husband, I’m A Hero?

Posted in China articles on Oct 17th, 2011

I usually associated the term “hero” with people who saved lives, or scaled the walls of Gotham City in tights looking for the bad guys — not a single woman from the US who made a serendipitous choice to come to China on her own. But my Chinese husband reserved the term for, among other people, his future wife.

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Double Happiness: A Western Woman Walks Into A Bar

Posted in Double Happiness on Oct 7th, 2011

“A Western woman walks into a bar…” sounds like the start of a joke. But instead of coming back with a punchline, a number of Western women came back with Chinese men who they would eventually marry. Featuring stories from Jo Kelly-Bai, Kelly Sandor-Yang, and White Girl in a Chinese-American World.

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On the Kim Lee and Li Yang Domestic Violence Story

Posted in China articles on Oct 3rd, 2011

Just last month, I discovered a new celebrity couple in the community of Chinese men and Western women — Li Yang, the founder of Crazy English, and Kim Lee, his American wife. If only it weren’t because of revelations that Li Yang beat and battered Kim for many years.

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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: Should I Tell Chinese Boyfriend I Have Asperger’s?

Posted in Ask the Yangxifu on Sep 16th, 2011

A Western woman just got diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome, and feels she must reveal this to her Chinese boyfriend. Should she? And if so, how?

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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: Language Barriers in Love

Posted in Ask the Yangxifu on Sep 9th, 2011

Sara Jaaksola offers insight from her own relationship with a Chinese man on what to do when language barriers get in the way of your love.

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Finding Friends With Married Chinese Women

Posted in China articles on Sep 5th, 2011

After a conversation with the wives of my Chinese husband’s “brothers,” I suddenly felt a little less alone in the world — and realized I could learn so much from married Chinese women.

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