Four years ago Heather Diamond e-mailed me through my website. She was getting ready to move from Honolulu to Hong
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Western Women & Asian Men, Breaking All Molds
Four years ago Heather Diamond e-mailed me through my website. She was getting ready to move from Honolulu to Hong
Continue readingIt’s so unusual to find novels with romantic relationships between Asian men and Western women. In fact, it’s so uncommon
Continue readingWith the recent Brett Kavanaugh hearings and confirmation, women around the world have looked on aghast, wondering how an entitled
Continue readingWhen I married in China back in 1995, many members of my family had grand plans to attend my wedding
Continue readingIt’s hard to believe that 20 years ago I delivered my first child–and learned about 滿月 or 坐月子 as I
Continue readingLast week I saw my friend Li after our kids got out of school for the day. Li knows more
Continue readingHave you ever lost a meaning in translation because you didn’t quite understand another culture? That happened to me the
Continue readingThe first time I felt trapped was in a service elevator in a Washington, DC YMCA. I was 22 and
Continue readingImagine if you married overseas and spent much of your first summer together in a city foreign to the two
Continue readingMany years ago I moved to Hong Kong to study. I met a Chinese student and married him six months
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