One Western woman with a Chinese husband writes about love, family and relationships in China 洋媳妇看中国
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 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.
Posted in Memoirs of a Yangxifu in China on Jun 7th, 2010
When I need a doctor to look at my private parts in China, I am reminded just how elusive privacy really is.
Posted in Memoirs of a Yangxifu in China on Jun 2nd, 2010
When a noisy Shanghai city works project brings migrant workers into our home — literally — I begin to wonder: just whose life is being disturbed?
Posted in Memoirs of a Yangxifu in China on May 31st, 2010
Under the fierce July heat in Shanghai, I was tested when the neighborhood filled with the din of a city works project.
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One Western woman with a Chinese husband writes about love, family and relationships in China 洋媳妇看中国
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