Posted in Articles on Mar 18th, 2013
For Susan Blumberg-Kason, author of the forthcoming memoir “Good Chinese Wife,” divorcing her Chinese husband never meant having to divorce China as well.
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Posted in Articles on Jan 21st, 2013
“The feelings between my wife and I were not so harmonious. So…we officially divorced.” Our friend Huizhong became another “divorce in China” statistic.
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Posted in Articles on Nov 19th, 2012
A white foreign man writes of “Enjoying the Spoils of a Chinese marriage” in the Global Times. But I think it should be titled “Spoiled a Chinese marriage” instead.
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Posted in Articles on Nov 12th, 2012
I spent much of the past week in bed, and unfortunately, much of this weekend as well. So I’m sending you to the archives this Monday so I can catch my breath and rest up a little. Those of you new to this blog may have missed my posts on Chinese marriage, through the eyes [...]
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Posted in Articles on Oct 22nd, 2012
It’s rather ironic that I didn’t change my maiden name for feminist reasons, but yet this is in line with China’s longstanding tradition.
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Posted in Articles on Sep 17th, 2012
My Chinese husband and I joke it’s hard to have a yangxifu (the foreign wife of a Chinese man). But then one day I wondered, is there any truth to this?
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Posted in Articles on Aug 27th, 2012
I never understood why my Chinese husband wouldn’t dance with me in public, until the movie “Shall We Dance” made me realize how embarrassing it was to him.
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Posted in Double Happiness on Aug 24th, 2012
Enjoy Chinese wedding stories from Tianjin Shannon, Tales from Hebei’s Kelly Sandor-Yang, Ember Swift, and My Beijing Survival Diary’s Michelle Guo.
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Posted in Ask the Yangxifu on Apr 27th, 2012
An overseas Chinese guy asks for advice on how to deal with questions from his parents/relatives about why he isn’t married yet.
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Posted in Ask the Yangxifu on Mar 23rd, 2012
An American guy feels he is getting pressured into marriage by his five-year Chinese girlfriend and her mother.
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