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22 Memoirs to Read with Asian Men & Western Women in Love

September 7, 2017September 28, 2017 Jocelyn Eikenburg 7 Comments A Field Guide to Happiness, Again, Alex Tizon, AMWF, At Home in Japan, Big Little Man, Burmese Lessons, Dana Sachs, Diane Farr, Ellen Graf, Eve Pell, Foreign Babes in Beijing, Good Chinese Wife, Grace Mineta, Here Comes the Sun: A Journey to Adoption in 8 Chakras, Janet Brown, Judith Shapiro, Karen Connelly, Kissing Outside the Lines, Leza Lowitz, Li Cunxin, Liang Heng, Linda Leaming, Love, Mae Franking, Mae Franking's My Chinese Marriage, Mao's Last Dancer, Marriage in Translation, Married to Bhutan, memoirs, Miranda Kennedy, My Japanese Husband (Still) Thinks I'm Crazy, My Japanese Husband Thinks I'm Crazy, Rachel DeWoskin, Rebecca Otowa, Shannon Young, Sideways on a Scooter, Son of the Revolution, Susan Blumberg-Kason, The Good Shufu, The House on Dream Street, The Natural Laws of Good Luck, Tone Deaf in Bangkok, Tracy Slater, Wendy Tokunaga, Year of Fire Dragons

From stories of love and travel to serious reportage, these 22 memoirs featuring Asian men and Western women in love should be on your to-read list.

Need a Good Summer Read? Try These 28 Books Featured on the Blog

July 13, 2017August 16, 2018 Jocelyn Eikenburg 5 Comments A Bollywood Affair, A Field Guide to Happiness, Alex Tizon, Atom Yang, Big Little Man, Celeste Ng, Dana Sachs, Empire of Glass, Everything I Never Told You, Ferry Tale, Good Chinese Wife, Grace Buchele Mineta, Here Comes the Sun: A Journey to Adoption in 8 Chakras, How Does One Dress to Buy Dragonfruit, Huan Hsu, Janet Brown, Kaitlin Solimine, Kelli Estes, Leza Lowitz, Linda Leaming, Love Me Anyway, My Japanese Husband (Still) Thinks I'm Crazy, My Japanese Husband Thinks I'm Crazy, Nicki Chen, Parsley & Coriander: Life in China with Italian flavor, Pearl River Drama: Dating in China, Quincy Carroll, Ray Hecht, Red Envelope, Shannon Young, Sonali Dev, South China Morning Blues, Susan Blumberg-Kason, Susan Chan, The Empress of Bright Moon, The Girl Who Wrote in Silk, The Good Shufu, The Moon in the Palace, The Porcelain Thief, The Reluctant Brides of Lily Court Lane, The Secret of The Nightingale Palace, There's Something I Want to Tell You: True Stories of Mixed Dating in Japan, Tiffany Hawk, Tiger Tail Soup, Tone Deaf in Bangkok, Tracy Slater, Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside, Weina Dai Randel, Year of Fire Dragons, Yuta Aoki

Whether you’re chilling out on the beach or cooling down indoors, here’s my list of recommended summer reads I’ve featured here on the blog

Gift Recommendations For Books Featured On This Blog

December 1, 2014November 30, 2014 Jocelyn Eikenburg 12 Comments A Field Guide to Happiness, Alex Tizon, Almost Home, Big Little Man, books, Celeste Ng, Dana Sachs, Everything I Never Told You, Good Chinese Wife, Grace Buchele Mineta, How Does One Dress to Buy Dragonfruit, Janet Brown, Linda Leaming, Love Me Anyway, My Japanese Husband Thinks I'm Crazy, Nicki Chen, Shannon Young, Susan Blumberg-Kason, The Secret of The Nightingale Palace, Tiffany Hawk, Tiger Tail Soup, Tone Deaf in Bangkok, Year of Fire Dragons

Does your holiday shopping list include book lovers? I’ve featured a lot of books on this blog — including AMWF titles — that could make great gifts.

Book Reviews Yangxifu Pride

Dana Sachs Interview: The Secret of the Nightingale Palace

April 22, 2013November 26, 2014 Jocelyn Eikenburg 10 Comments AMWF couples, AMWF love stories, AMWF relationships, AMWF romance, Asian men, Dana Sachs, Japanese men, Jewish women, The House on Dream Street, The Secret of The Nightingale Palace

Interview with author Dana Sachs on her novel “The Secret of the Nightingale Palace,” which features two stories of Asian men and white women in love.

Yangxifu Pride: 8 Memoirs For Western Women Who Love Asian Men

March 9, 2012September 15, 2014 Jocelyn Eikenburg 23 Comments Asian men, At Home in Japan, book reviews, Burmese Lessons, Chinese men, Dana Sachs, Diane Farr, Favorites, G. Willow Wilson, Karen Connelly, Kissing Outside the Lines, Linda Leaming, love in China, Marriage in Translation, Married to Bhutan, memoirs, Miranda Kennedy, Rebecca Otowa, Sideways on a Scooter, The Butterfly Mosque, The House on Dream Street, Wendy Tokunaga

Only a handful of Western women wrote about their love affairs with Chinese men (such as those I’ve recommended on this list). But I’ve found new women to call my Jiemei(that’s sisters in Chinese), thanks to the many memoirs I’ve discovered about Western women who found love in Asia (and beyond).