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Keeping Chinese Autumn Traditions Alive in the UK

I arrived in China for my studies at the end of Summer, just as Autumn was beginning to creep in.

When I had first met my husband, I knew that sharing our cultural traditions would be memorable. We came from

After 15 years in Beijing, it definitely feels like home to me, but there’s something about the big holidays –

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

Have you ever lost a meaning in translation because you didn’t quite understand another culture? That happened to me the

My hometown is in the snowy hills of New England where people tap their own maple trees and bake their

In the last month of my pregnancy, the topic of what to do with my placenta after giving birth came

When I was writing my memoir, Good Chinese Wife, my agent asked me to find some tongue-in-cheek quotes to add

It wasn’t like I hadn’t grown up in a feminist household. My mom and her only sister had gone to