Getting Personal When Buying Condoms at Watson’s China
Posted in China articles on Jan 16th, 2012
A little personal shopping got too personal when buying condoms in a Watson’s in China.
One Western woman with a Chinese husband writes about love, family and relationships in China 洋媳妇看中国
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 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.
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?
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 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?
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.
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.
Posted in China articles on Sep 26th, 2011
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?
Posted in China articles on Sep 19th, 2011
In marriage, is love really destiny? That’s what I wondered after my Chinese sister-in-law gave me that definition for love among married couples.