My Chinese boyfriend John and I didn’t just climb a mountain that afternoon — we climbed back into love, after a morning when I wondered if my shadows would push him away.
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In our journey through China, we don’t always understand the country, or our Chinese lovers. I didn’t one morning, on a trip to my Chinese boyfriend’s hometown.
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Posted in China articles on Dec 13th, 2009
After living with John, my Chinese boyfriend, for more than two years in Shanghai — and marrying him — I experienced the difficulties of an average Chinese through him.
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Posted in China articles on Aug 10th, 2009
At my inlaws’ home, I didn’t take much notice of the chicken habitually roosting in the corner of the room next to the kitchen. Chickens have free run of the first floor of the house (which means we have to watch where we walk) and even have their own sleeping corner. But my Chinese mother-in-law [...]
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