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Author: Jocelyn Eikenburg

Jocelyn is a writer, blogger and the creator of Speaking of China, a blog about love, family and relationships in China, including AMWF love. She has been featured on the BBC and CCTV. You can find her writing in The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, the anthologies "How Does One Dress to Buy Dragonfruit?" and "Unsavory Elements", and other publications.
February 4, 2021 Culture / Life in Asia / Traditions

Not Home for the Holidays: An Unusual Chinese New Year

The Chinese saying of “moneyed or not, return home for Chinese New Year” (有钱没钱回家过年, yǒuqián méi qián huíjiā guònián) endures

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January 7, 2021 Culture / Life / Life in Asia / Traditions

Nothing But Dragonwell Tea for Me, Please

Among the rituals I observe every morning when I arrive bleary-eyed to work, nothing perks up my senses more than

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January 5, 2021 Life

2021: Our Wishes and Dreams for New Year

We’ve just said farewell (or good riddance!) to 2020, a year marked by unprecedented and unusual challenges that have affected

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December 1, 2020 Life / Life in Asia

‘How’s COVID in China?’: Awkward Convos from Different Sides of Pandemic

How’s the COVID situation in China? I hesitated to type a response to my friend back in the US, as

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September 23, 2020 Life in Asia / Traveling

Post-COVID Air Travel in China: Easier Than I Imagined

It was less than 24 hours before my flight to Ningxia was scheduled to take off from Beijing Capital International

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August 5, 2020 Actor / Media Watch / Movies / Uncategorized

Phillipa Soo of ‘Hamilton’ Speaks of Biracial (Chinese/European) Family Background

Call me “Helpless”, but after watching the live-stage performance of the musical “Hamilton”, I simply had to write about Phillipa

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July 1, 2020 Books

‘Au Crépuscule’ (At Dusk): Knight in Making in Novel by Sabrina Mailhot

Some literary dreams come years in the making, such as for Canadian author Sabrina Mailhot and her newly published debut

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May 12, 2020 Uncategorized

Ditching Beijing Subway for a Chevy: A Tale of Caution Amid Reopening

Before the virus, it seemed unimaginable that my colleagues at the office in Beijing would brave the snarl of traffic

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April 15, 2020 Life

Have Introverts Found Silver Lining in COVID-19 w/ More Time Alone?

To go out or not, that was the question. At least, for many of us, it used to be something

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March 24, 2020 Uncategorized

I Loved Hair Salons in China, but Now I’m the Home Barber, Thanks to the Virus

For years I have lauded barber shops in China as one of the greatest things about living in this country.

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