Speaking of China

A little personal shopping got too personal when buying condoms in a Watson’s in China.

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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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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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“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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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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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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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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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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My Chinese husband’s cousin had it all — money, BMW, expensive suits. But he was looking for the ultimate accessory: a Western wife to show off.

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As I looked back on the Chinese men I’ve dated, I found a strong connection between the language(s) we fell in love in and the language(s) we feel most comfortable using with each other.

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