One Western woman with a Chinese husband writes about love, family and relationships in China 洋媳妇看中国
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?
Posted in China articles on Jan 16th, 2012
A little personal shopping got too personal when buying condoms in a Watson’s in China.
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.
Posted in Double Happiness on Dec 16th, 2011
Fred, who was born in Hong Kong and primarily raised in the US, never expected he would marry a white woman, let alone one from Brazil.
Posted in China articles, Mandarin Love on Nov 21st, 2011
In Chinese, they call it tónggāngòngkǔ (同甘共苦), sharing the sweetness and the sorrows — something my Chinese husband and I know too well after his recent misfortune.
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.
Posted in China articles on Oct 31st, 2011
Asian Jewish Life published my article “Chosen Women and Chinese men: a Tradition of Love?”
Posted in Double Happiness on Oct 21st, 2011
In this Friday’s Double Happiness, L. Han writes about why he loves Western women — a fascination that started with Disney’s the Little Mermaid, and continued through to his first crush on a white woman in Australia.
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.
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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One Western woman with a Chinese husband writes about love, family and relationships in China 洋媳妇看中国
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