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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.

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Ask the Yangxifu: Books with Chinese Men and Western Women in Love

November 12, 2010March 11, 2013 Jocelyn Eikenburg 14 Comments A House Divided, Aimee Liu, Alison Wong, As the Earth Turns Silver, Blonde Lotus, Cecilie Gamst Berg, China, China memoir, Chinese boyfriend, Chinese family, Chinese guy, Chinese husband, Chinese men in the movies, Cloud Mountain, dating in China, East Wind West Wind, Ellen Graf, Favorites, Foreign Babes in Beijing, foreign woman, foreigners in China, Gish Jen, Judith Shapiro, Kate Furnivall, Li Cunxin, Liang Heng, Lost in Translation, love in China, Mae Franking, Mae Franking's My Chinese Marriage, Mao's Last Dancer, Marguerite Duras, Marriage in China, Nicole Mones, Pearl Buck, Rachel DeWoskin, Repeat After Me, Son of the Revolution, The Concubine's Secret, The Girl from Junchow, The Good Earth, The House of Earth, The Last Chinese Chef, The Love Wife, The Lover, The Natural Laws of Good Luck, The North China Lover, The Russian Concubine, Western women

A list of books with Chinese men and Western women in love, Inspired by the previous question I answered about movies.

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