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Mao’s Last Dancer

11 Critically Acclaimed AMWF Movies Worth Watching

April 17, 2018August 16, 2018 Jocelyn Eikenburg 19 Comments A Great Wall, Ae Fond Kiss, AMWF, AMWF love stories, Columbus, Favorites, Japanese Story, Mao's Last Dancer, movies, Never Forever, Pushing Hands, The Big Sick, The Crimson Kimono, The Edge of Seventeen, The Lover

If you’re a regular at the art house theaters and film festivals, here are 11 critically acclaimed AMWF movies you don’t want to miss.

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.

Six Chinese Men in the Movies Who Loved Western Women, from Least Sexy to Most Sexy

December 14, 2012January 16, 2013 Jocelyn Eikenburg 23 Comments A Great Wall, AMWF love stories, Chi Cao, Chinese men, Daniel Henney, Dragon the Bruce Lee Story, Favorites, Jason Scott Lee, Kelvin Han Yee, Ken Leung, Li Cunxin, Mao's Last Dancer, sexy Chinese men, Shanghai Calling, Shanghai Kiss, The Lover, Tony Leung Ka Fai

A list of six major Chinese men who love Western women in the movies, ranked according to their on-screen sex appeal in specific films.

5 Famous, Inspiring Asian Men Who Also Married Non-Asian Women

June 15, 2012June 15, 2012 Jocelyn Eikenburg 28 Comments Asian men, Chinese men, David Suzuki, Kazuo Ishiguro, Li Cunxin, Mao's Last Dancer, Steven Chu, Yo-Yo Ma

Some of the most famous and inspiring Asian men in this world also have non-Asian wives (women like me). Here are my five favorites.

Ask the Yangxifu

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.

Ask the Yangxifu

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

October 29, 2010September 18, 2011 Jocelyn Eikenburg 40 Comments A Great Wall, Beijing, China, China life, Chinese boyfriend, Chinese family, chinese father-in-law, Chinese friend, Chinese guy, Chinese husband, Chinese men, Chinese men in the movies, Chinese mother-in-law, Chinese parents, dating in China, Dragon the Bruce Lee Story, Favorites, For all eternity, foreign woman, foreigners in China, life in China, love in China, Mao's Last Dancer, Pushing Hands, Restless, Shanghai China, Shanghai Kiss, The Lover

A list of those rare movies that portray love, romance and/or marriage between Chinese men and Western women.

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