Tibetan-Style Blankets: Cross-Cultural Couple Creates Colorful Business
“It is our hope that our success will help Tibetans realize the beauty and value of their traditional crafts, and inspire an interest in preserving them.”
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China
Stories about life, love, and travel in China, from one Western woman with a Chinese husband.
Riding the ‘Love Train’: Matchmaking Express Takes Off in China’s Chongqing
Move over, Love Boat. Southwest China’s Chongqing has discovered a more creative vehicle for matchmaking with its own “Love Train.”
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Photo Essay: Video Shoots in Suzhou and Shandong Province – Behind the Scenes
Last week I returned from a 10-day trip for video shoots for China Daily, which took me to the cities
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Giant Man Zhan Shicai (Chang Woo Gow) and Catherine Santley
Zhan Shicai (Chang Woo Gow) made a career out of his incredible height — and while touring the world, met his wife Catherine Santley in Australia.
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‘Touching Home in China’ Explores Nation, Lives of Girls in Insightful, Intimate Curriculum
‘Touching Home in China’ offers a very intimate take on China by following two Chinese adoptees in the US who journey back to their rural birthplaces.
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Velma Demerson, Arrested for Having Chinese Boyfriend in Canada
Loving a Chinese man and expecting his child shouldn’t be a crime. But white Canadian Velma Demerson was arrested in Canada in May 1939 for just that.
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How China’s ‘Butterfly Lovers’ Fluttered Into My Heart – and Mobile Phone
The ‘Butterfly Lovers’ concerto first moved me with its beautiful melody, before moving into my mobile phone — and catching the eye of my future husband.
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Food Is the Language of Love in My Mother-in-Law’s Kitchen
From savory shaobing to tantalizing smoked tofu, food has become a delicious way to bring me and my Chinese mother-in-law closer.
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Did Writer Pearl Buck and Poet Xu Zhimo Have a Love Affair?
Xu Zhimo is one of the most esteemed Chinese romantic poets — and some claim he may have had a love affair with the celebrated writer Pearl S. Buck.
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Celebrating 10 Years of Blogging With 10 Photos
To mark this special 10-year “blog-iversary” I’m running 10 photos of me and my husband from the past decade, plus the most popular posts from each year.
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