One Western woman with a Chinese husband makes sense of China 洋媳妇看中国
Posted in China articles on Sep 6th, 2010
I never imagined “harmless” weather could look so horrible — but China’s Yangtze River Delta, where I lived for more than four years, forever changed my perspective on storms, from seemingly severe thunderstorms to typhoons.
Posted in China articles on Aug 23rd, 2010
One Saturday morning in Spring 2005, about 10 minutes before crawling from bed, I heard it — a screeching sound akin to scratching a blackboard with your fingernails, but magnified more than 100 times over. Yes, just a little good old welding and drilling in the name of redecorating yet another apartment in my neighborhood, [...]
Posted in Memoirs of a Yangxifu in China on Jul 21st, 2010
When John, my Chinese boyfriend, refused to eat my salad, that moment was a window into one major difference between our culinary cultures. In his village, nobody eats lettuce, unless it’s cooked.
Posted in Memoirs of a Yangxifu in China on Jul 19th, 2010
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?
Posted in Memoirs of a Yangxifu in China on Jul 12th, 2010
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.
Posted in Memoirs of a Yangxifu in China on Jul 7th, 2010
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.
Posted in Memoirs of a Yangxifu in China on Jul 5th, 2010
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.
Posted in Memoirs of a Yangxifu in China on Jun 30th, 2010
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.
Posted in Memoirs of a Yangxifu in China on Jun 28th, 2010
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.
Posted in Memoirs of a Yangxifu in China on Jun 14th, 2010
When my computer needed fixing in Shanghai, I discovered a helpful — and friendly — face from the most unlikely person: a computer chat addicted, shy Shanghai college kid.
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