One Western woman with a Chinese husband makes sense of China 洋媳妇谈中国
Posted in Memoirs of a Yangxifu in China on Mar 11th, 2010
What happens when your company in China forgets you? They had forgotten my Ayi, forgotten the contracts of many current workers. And then, they forgot me and my contract.
Posted in Travel China with the Yangxifu on Mar 10th, 2010
Winser Zhao of China Travel 2.0 interviewed me, and the article — called Meet a Yangxifu and Ask for More About China – Jocelyn and Her Love Story — just appeared on their blog today. Some of the things I talk about include:
My first impressions/experiences in China
Why I love China
How I learned Chinese
My Chinese inlaws’ [...]
Posted in Memoirs of a Yangxifu in China on Mar 9th, 2010
When you live as a foreigner in China, sometimes you can’t help but feel like a child. Maybe it’s because you can’t speak the language — or stumble through it, like a toddler playing with sounds and words. Maybe it’s because you don’t read the signs, and feel as lost as a little kid, abandoned [...]
Posted in Memoirs of a Yangxifu in China on Mar 8th, 2010
When you live in a foreign country like China, it’s easy to get lost, to stumble, to make a wrong turn. But the wrong turn — or step — can cost you your time, your health or even, your trip to Hong Kong.
On the evening of December 28, 2002, I took the wrong step [...]
Posted in China articles on Mar 5th, 2010
Read this collaborative piece on interracial dating and marriages of Western women and Chinese men I did with Susan Chi, Melanie Gao, and Jessica Larson-Wang — for Middle Kingdom Life. It’s called “Western Wives, Chinese Husbands.”
We answer these questions:
Are Chinese men generally attracted to Western women? Are they representative of Chinese men in general?
Is there anything [...]
Posted in Ask the Yangxifu on Mar 5th, 2010
What should a cross-cultural couple (Chinese-foreigner) consider before moving to China — to live permanently? Here are some issues you should know ahead, from career and visa to the environment and real estate.
Posted in Memoirs of a Yangxifu in China on Mar 4th, 2010
When you’re in love, and only see each other every two weeks, on the weekends, you romanticize every meeting. You want it to be as perfect as a Tang-dynasty couplet, and script out the possibilities even before your lover arrives. You practice a new phrase, such as 望穿秋水 (wàngchuānqiūshuǐ – awaiting you with great anxiety), [...]
Posted in Memoirs of a Yangxifu in China on Mar 3rd, 2010
My Chinese boyfriend, John, faced a seemster of dormitory despair — while I helplessly looked on.
Posted in Memoirs of a Yangxifu in China on Mar 2nd, 2010
By December 2002, I had seen a lot of things at the Chinese Internet company in Hangzhou, where I worked. But spamming wasn’t one of them — until, in mid-December, when my supervisor, Mr. Fang, had a talk with me.
I was already worried when Mr. Fang asked me to follow him to the conference room. [...]
Posted in Memoirs of a Yangxifu in China on Mar 1st, 2010
As a foreigner in China, sometimes you touch people in ways you never realized. Something you say or do in a moment — a small, forgettable thing to you — becomes a lasting impression to someone else.
I didn’t think much about swimming at the Chenjinglun pool in Hangzhou. I’d been going there since September. By [...]
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