When the real estate agent in Shanghai arrived late for yet another apartment visit, I wondered — will I be late in finding a good place before in Shanghai, before the month is up?
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John and I go on a dead-end visit to an unsavory apartment building in China — in an effort to find a new place to live — and make the landlord angry with our disinterest.
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When you’re abroad, your brethren foreigners can sometimes be just as foreign to you as the locals, just as John and I discovered one night while dining on a bar street.
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In our old Shanghai town house, John and I faced a double infestation — cockroaches and rats — despite the popular wisdom that you can’t have both together.
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Posted in Ask the Yangxifu on Jul 2nd, 2010
A European science graduate student loves a Chinese man, but doesn’t love the thought of sacrificing her career to live with him in China. Can they overcome location to be together?
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I brought my Shanghai neighbor chocolate, as a token of forgiveness — over a bicycle that I couldn’t park in her kitchen, which then got stolen outside — but never expected her to come back with her own sweet reply.
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I never should have left my bicycle outside of my apartment house. And I never should have expected the community to understand the theft of my bicycle.
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My Chinese boyfriend John and I went to Su Causeway in Hangzhou not for the view or a walk, but to find the bench where we first kissed, and became a couple.
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My friend Chris had completely bought into Amway as a way of life, when he began working as a sales rep for them. But while I bought Amway vitamins, I wasn’t buying his sales pitch.
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During a reunion lunch with one of my favorite former Chinese coworkers, Jane, I discover she’s gone over to F@lun G0ng — and hopes John and I will too.
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