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A Little American Mythology

Posted in China articles on Nov 14th, 2011

A Chinese student who shares his ideas about Americans makes me realize that, maybe, I’ve been telling myself myths about this country.

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On Discrimination and Marriage to a Chinese Man

Posted in China articles on Nov 7th, 2011

Discrimination. I never realized just how intimately I would come to know this word and what it really means after marrying a Chinese man.

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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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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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One Vegan, Making Chinese Red-Braised Pork For Love

Posted in China articles, Yin-Yang on Oct 24th, 2011

I’m a vegan, married to a Chinese man who can’t live without his meat and fish. Which I why I’ve learned to make Chinese-style red braised pork, all for 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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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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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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