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How My Anti-Japanese Chinese Husband Changed His Mind About Japan

Posted in China articles on Mar 14th, 2011

I never thought my staunchly anti-Japanese Chinese husband would ever call anyone from Japan a friend.

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Are Jewish Women More Likely to Marry Chinese Men?

Posted in China articles on Feb 28th, 2011

As a shiksa with a Chinese husband, I wondered if I was out of the mainstream. Was it really true? Were Jewish women more likely to marry Chinese men?

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Stuck Between Taiwan and Jun, Published in Matador Life

Posted in China articles on Feb 10th, 2011

International love doesn’t come easy, especially between an American woman and Chinese man. I tell my story in this piece, published in Matador.

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How I Learned to Read Chinese, Published on Matador

Posted in China articles on Nov 3rd, 2010

Matador just published my article titled “How I Learned to Read Chinese.”

For those of you dying to know about my path to fluency, this piece tracks how I left illiteracy in Chinese behind.

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Ask the Yangxifu: Movies with Chinese Men and Western Women in Love

Posted in Ask the Yangxifu on Oct 29th, 2010

A list of those rare movies that portray love, romance and/or marriage between Chinese men and Western women.

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Ask the Yangxifu: Western Women Can’t Wear Qipaos?

Posted in Ask the Yangxifu on Oct 22nd, 2010

Can Western women rock the Chinese qipao? Jocelyn offers some help to a Western girl lost in the world of fashion translation.

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Chinese Men Are Sexy

Posted in China articles on Oct 11th, 2010

Yes — Chinese men can be sexy! Despite Hollywood and all the stereotypes, Western women like me have discovered some serious Chinese studs, who slid their way into our hearts (and pants). ;-)

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“It’s Just a Storm”: The Ebb and Flow of Yangtze River Delta Weather

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.

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Learning Patience in China

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, [...]

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Chapter 83: Salad, But Not Safe

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.

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