New to Speaking of China — or just looking for a good read? Check out this hand-picked list of my favorite posts.
- Racist Rant Against Chinese Gets Foreigner in China Fired and Booted From China
- Intercultural Love Leads to More Creativity? Study by MIT Prof Says Yes
- Velma Demerson, Arrested for Having Chinese Boyfriend in Canada
- A Trip Backwards: How People Thought of Interracial Marriages With Asian Men in the Past
- The Unglamorous Reality of Citizenship in Chinese-Foreign Marriages
- ‘African Jasmine Flower’: Ruth Njeri Finds Success, Love on Chinese Stage
- Are Highly Sensitive People More Accepted in Chinese Culture? One Study Says Yes
- Should Foreigners Who Marry Chinese Also Learn the Language?
- Are Dating Apps Best for Chinese, Foreigners to Pair Up?
- Liverpool’s Lost Chinese Sailors, and the Families Left Behind in the UK (AMWF History)
- When East Marries West: When One Wedding Won’t Do
- Chinese Student in Germany Gives Dating Advice to Fellow Countrymen
- Romanced on a Shanghai Bicycle (Almost) for Two: Cherished Memories of When My Husband ‘Picked Me up’ on His Bike
- Riding the ‘Love Boat’: Ukrainian Woman Falls for Chinese Cruise Ship Colleague
- “I Awoke to Find a Girl Lying by My Side”: Chinese Men Open up About Dating Foreign Women on Vice.cn
- “It Was Her First Time to Sleep With a Chinese Man”: Chinese Men Open up About Dating Foreign Women on Vice.cn
- “The Moment Our Eyes Met, I Froze”: Chinese Men Open up About Dating Foreign Women on Vice.cn
- “She Liked Having Threesomes”: Chinese Men Open up About Dating Foreign Women on Vice.cn
- Chinese Men Can’t Date White European or American Women? Chinese Overseas Students Weigh In
- “Are You Mother and Son?” No, I’m a White Woman Who Looks Older Than Her Asian Husband
- ‘The Chinese Exclusion Act’ on PBS Reminds Me Asian Stereotypes Haven’t Changed Much
- 11 Critically Acclaimed AMWF Movies Worth Watching
- Olympic Speedskater Shaolin Sandor Liu Has a Cool China Connection Beyond His Chinese Father
- Phoenix News Weighs in on Why so Few White Women Date Chinese Men – and It’s Awful
- Guest Post: I Got Divorced in China, and What Happened in My Marriage Is More Common Than You Realize
- Is Beijing China’s Best City for Western Women Married to Chinese Men?
- 4 Chinese Curse Words That Sound Funny in Literal Translation, But Are Actually Serious
- “You Must Be Russian” – On Mistaken Identity in China and America
- Are China’s AMWF Couples Rarer Just Because Only 25% of Foreigners in China Are Women?
- To The Girl Tired of Hearing, “Why Would You Date Chinese Men?”
- Marrying Someone from Your Culture Is No Guarantee of Happiness
- How “Italian Eggplant” Divided Us, and Then United Us in Love
- 3 Stereotypes About Asian Men I’m Tired Of Hearing
- When a White Supremacist Website Links to Your Interracial Love Blog
- To the Girl Whose Boyfriend’s ￥8,000/Mo Salary “Wasn’t Enough”
- An Open Letter to the Girl Whose Interracial Relationship Ended
- What a Trump Presidency Means for Interracial Couples
- What It Means to Support Your Husband’s Discrimination Lawsuit
- Is Interracial Dating Easier for Asian Men in Non-English-Speaking Countries?
- How Loving a “Foreign Enemy” (And Writing About It) Changes Lives
- AMWF History: Sarah Burke and Wong Suey Wong, Arrested in 1883 USA (For Love)
- 6 Surprising Experiences My Husband and I Had in a Chinese Hospital
- Why I Don’t Like Going to Wedding Banquets in China
- 4 Things I’m Embarrassed to Share About Living with My Chinese In-Laws
- 5 Unhappy Things I’ve Struggled with as an Expat Married to a Foreigner
- “We’re Not Fighting, We’re Just Talking!” My Struggle with Cultural Differences in How People Talk in China
- The Love Stories of East German Women and North Korean Men in New German Documentary “Loved, Engaged, Lost”
- Can Interracial and Intercultural Relationships Be a Transcendental Experience?
- Why Did I Assume I Would Stay Single in China?
- Things I’ve Learned from My Chinese Husband: Asia Is Not That United
- The Courage to Blog Personally About Love, Family and Marriage in China
- How Could I Forget About the Cultural Differences in My Intercultural Marriage?
- Mom, if only you could have known the person I became after China
- Why It’s a Really Bad Idea to Teach Your Spouse Your Language
- “What will they think?” The fear of being seen as a failure before family at Chinese New Year
- 4 Habits I’ve Learned from my Chinese Husband
- The Ups and Downs of Spending Christmas Abroad (in a Country That Doesn’t Celebrate It)
- 6 Ways to Prepare for Meeting the Parents in China
- On sexual assault in China (and how my husband “guards my butt”)
- “Is he your foreign exchange student?” When you’re a white woman who looks older than her Asian husband
- 5 Fascinating Stereotypes of Western Women in China
- Interview with Alex Tizon on His Memoir “Big Little Man: In Search of My Asian Self”
- 4 Really Bad Reasons for Marrying Western Women in China
- 5 Awkward Things for a Longtime Married Couple in China with No Kids
- Photo Essay: Celebrating 10 years of marriage to my husband!
- Are we more vulnerable to one-sided relationships when it’s cross-cultural love?
- When China makes people feel better about their first-world countries
- The power of a smile in China’s countryside
- What’s the big deal about Asian men and bags?
- Are interracial couples of Asian men & Western women really that rare? A field report from Hong Kong
- 6 Stunning Celebrity Couples of Asian Men & Non-Asian Women
- 8 Surprising Things I’ve Learned from Living in China’s Countryside
- To learn dialect or not? When your Chinese family doesn’t speak Mandarin Chinese
- My husband’s excuse not to drink? “I have a foreign wife!”
- Photo Essay: Chinese New Year at the Family Home
- How rare are Chinese men/Western women? Enough to be “nonsense”
- Three Things I Wish I Had Known About Dating in China
- Infidelity in China? Doesn’t matter to my marriage
- Justifying Cross-Cultural Love By Hating On Others?
- Why Ignoring Cultural Differences in Cross-Cultural Relationships is Harmful
- Double Happiness: “Enter Zhao Ming…China’s Answer to Arnold Schwarzenegger”
- Foreigners Who Think They’re Entitled To Date The Hottest Chinese?
- Fenshou: “I Was Once Engaged to a Chinese Man”
- Double Happiness: Setting Up His Chinese Nephew With American Women
- Divorcing Your Chinese Spouse Doesn’t Mean You Must Divorce China
- The Next Big Thing: On “Red All Over,” My Forthcoming Memoir
- On Dating Chinese Men — Or Why You Shouldn’t Judge After Only One Date
- On My Negative Dating Experiences With Chinese Men, and Why I Still Kept Smiling About China’s “Dating Scene”
- Six Chinese Men in the Movies Who Loved Western Women, from Least Sexy to Most Sexy
- Four Lame Reasons Why Western Women Won’t Date Chinese Men
- Asian Women “Too Tempting” To Husbands/Boyfriends? Please.
- On Shopping With My Husband, And The Parka That Got Away
- A Story of Sexism, Chinese Men and Who Should Wash the Dishes
- Ask the Yangxifu: 3 Reasons Why You Should Pursue Chinese Men
- I Never Intended To Marry a Chinese Man
- “Rougan”: How My Husband Helped Me Love My Curves
- Things We’ve Learned About Going Meatless in China From Our Chinese Families
- My Chinese Husband Has Balls
- Why I Write About “Forbidden” Love in China
- Yangxifu Pride: 8 Memoirs For Western Women Who Love Asian Men
- Double Happiness: A Journey Towards China And Love
- The Fuqi Xiang Fallacy
- I Stand By My Man, And Yes, He’s Chinese
- Getting Personal When Buying Condoms at Watson’s China
- Double Happiness: Once You Go Black, You Never Go Back
- On Discrimination and Marriage to a Chinese Man
- One Vegan, Making Chinese Red-Braised Pork For Love
- Ask the Yangxifu: Six Western Women of the Past who Married Chinese Men
- My Chinese Husband’s Cousin, Looking For a Western Wife to Brag About
- The Relationship Between Language and Falling in Love
- My Chinese Inlaws’ Not-So-Free Marriage
- Marriage in China is Home, Car, Money?
- Ask the Yangxifu: Staring in China at Couples of Chinese Men-Western Women
- 2011 Blogs by Western Women who Love Chinese Men
- Are Jewish Women More Likely to Marry Chinese Men?
- My Chinese Husband Calls Me Laopo
- Ask the Yangxifu: Western women in China are NOT all sluts
- Ask the Yangxifu: Dating Advice for Chinese Men from JT Tran, the Asian Playboy
- Ask the Yangxifu: Sex and Chinese Men
- Three Inches of Separation: On Loving a Shorter Chinese Man
- Ask the Yangxifu: Gifts to Buy Abroad for Chinese Family and Relatives
- Ask the Yangxifu: Books with Chinese Men and Western Women in Love
- Stereotypes About Couples of Chinese Men-Western Women
- Ask the Yangxifu: Movies with Chinese Men and Western Women in Love
- Ask the Yangxifu: Western Women Can’t Wear Qipaos?
- Chinese Men Are Sexy
- How China Made My Clothing Cuter
- Ask the Yangxifu: What Western Women Think of Chinese Men
- China Blogs by Western Women who Love Chinese Men
- Ask the Yangxifu: Indirect Dating and Chinese Men
- Ask the Yangxifu: A Big, Fat, Traditional Chinese Wedding?
- “Zao sheng guizi”: the pressure of having babies in a Chinese family
- Giving Gifts to Your Chinese family – A Modest Guide
- The Troubling Chinese Mother-in-law Relationship
- On the Rarity of Foreign Women and Chinese Boyfriends/Chinese Husbands
Hi Jocelyn,
I read several of your articles about Chinese men dating and marrying non-Chinese women, and I am one of them. I am Chinese and I married a beautiful Brazilian women. We are living happily ever after. Do you want to hear my story?
Hi Fred,
Why not?
Just share us your romances.
Before that, we should thank Jocelyn for the platform.
She just published it, Chris. So see it now.
Absolutely love the site, as a girl soon to be taking the across the world plunge it’s nice to know I’m not alone. Just wondering if anyone on here as particular economic issues within their yangxifu relationships. My fiancée is a chuzhong biye le nongminren and I’m at an English university and possibly going to do a masters before moving over there to be with him, while this means eternal praise and love from him and all his family members it also means really frustrating and sometimes even hurtful comments by strangers friends and even distant family ( if you’ve ever seen the film aiqingguojingxian you’ll know the feel.) Face is so important to Chinese people but my education and western background means I will easily earn much more than my Laogong with more pressure to stay on at work than stay at home and look after the kids ( A whole other bag of problems when facing questions about bringing kids up bi-lingual, but I digress). Just wondering if there is anyone going through or been through the same thing and come out fighting.
Also definitely up for a big YangXiFer (BJhua) get together, looking for intern-ships in Shanghai nabian this summer and having an engagement party in Jiangsu. Thanks for all the inspiring articles and comments. Best Regards, Marie
LOVE this blog! I write a similar blog, except I am married to a South Indian man 🙂 Woo-hoo for intercultural love!!!!! 😉