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Rewriting the Rules of Confinement

It’s hard to believe that 20 years ago I delivered my first child–and learned about 滿月 or 坐月子 as I

When I moved to China, I began to learn more about my own culture and beliefs, as well as that

I have the best parents-in-law. They are generous, patient, warm, and truly treat me like their own daughter. Save for

My 18 month-old son is running, talking, growing, and thriving. Full of energy and curiosity, he plays, eats, and chatters

Our daughter recently turned one, and the milestone prompted me to reflect a little on the first year of her

Imagine if you married overseas and spent much of your first summer together in a city foreign to the two

I’m not the kind of person who ever really pictured what my wedding would look like. But I did always

Should I send my kids to Chinese schools? It’s a question that many foreign parents in China ask themselves, especially

We started thinking about having kids in the summer of 2014. At this point, my husband and I had been

When I divorced my first husband 17 years ago, the last thing I wanted was to let our two-year-old son