Does Peer Pressure Ever Discourage Dating Differently?
Posted in Articles on Mar 25th, 2013
Did you ever experience peer pressure regarding your potential dating choices? And did it ever influence your decision to date (or not to date) someone?
One Western woman with a Chinese husband writes about love, family and relationships in China 洋媳妇看中国
Posted in Articles on Mar 25th, 2013
Did you ever experience peer pressure regarding your potential dating choices? And did it ever influence your decision to date (or not to date) someone?
Posted in Articles on Mar 11th, 2013
I only discovered International Women’s Day after coming to China. My home country of America may have created it, but we’ve largely forgotten it.
Posted in Yangxifu Pride on Mar 8th, 2013
It’s March 8 — International Women’s Day — and time for an update to my list of blogs by Western women who love Chinese men!
Posted in Articles on Dec 17th, 2012
The winds (of China’s dating scene) didn’t always blow my way, but I still remained smiling, despite all my own negative experiences w/ Chinese men.
Posted in Ask the Yangxifu on Jul 6th, 2012
A Western woman is visiting her Chinese family, but the family speaks local dialects, not Mandarin, at the table and she’s lost.
Posted in Articles on Apr 2nd, 2012
I went against the Chinese family etiquette to save a baby mobile. But maybe a foreigner’s ignorance sometimes comes in handy in China?
Posted in Articles on Mar 26th, 2012
Sometimes your meat-eating Chinese relatives can teach you a lot about going meatless, as Susan Blumberg-Kason and I learned.
Posted in Articles on Mar 12th, 2012
Forbidden. That’s what someone once called my writing back in 2004 when I started sharing my relationships with Chinese men.
Posted in 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.