Posted in Ask the Yangxifu on Jan 27th, 2012
After her recent dating experiences in China, a woman wonders, should she expect Chinese men to have higher numbers of sexual partners and/or experience with prostitutes?
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Posted in China articles on Jan 9th, 2012
if my experience means anything, many Chinese still turn to someone to play matchmaker — even if that someone is just the guy you share an office with at work.
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Posted in Ask the Yangxifu on Dec 23rd, 2011
A Chinese man in Guangzhou wonders, can he ever find another Western woman to love in China?
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Posted in Ask the Yangxifu on Dec 2nd, 2011
A woman is interested in a Chinese guy, but they work in a romance-unfriendly government organization. Should she text him to ask him out?
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Posted in Double Happiness on Nov 18th, 2011
When Jemma arrived in China in 2008, she expected to stay two years and then move on to another place. But that was before she met her Chinese boyfriend — through a friend.
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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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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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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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Posted in Ask the Yangxifu on Aug 26th, 2011
A Western woman is shocked when her Chinese boyfriend gets super-critical with her, only several months into their relationship. Is this normal, and what should she do?
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Posted in China articles on Aug 15th, 2011
The Global Times quotes me in an article about cross-cultural speed dating in China, titled “On the Fast Track to Love.”
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