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October 13, 2022 Chinese food / Culture / Life in Asia / Traditions

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.

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December 10, 2018 Christmas / Culture / Family / Husband / Life / Life in the West / Traditions

Christmas In Canada: Introducing My Chinese Husband To My Family’s Tradition

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

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November 9, 2018 Family / Life / Traveling

Going “home” for the holidays

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

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May 7, 2018 Family / Kids / Pregnancy

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

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April 9, 2018 Culture / Family / Kids / Life in Asia / Pregnancy

Superstition or Health Care: Sitting the Month

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

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February 19, 2018 Culture / Life in Asia

Celebrating Chinese New Year in a Bygone Era

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

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December 4, 2017 Life in Asia

Chinese Christmas Cookie Decorating Party

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

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August 28, 2017 Family / Kids / Mother-In-Law

About my mother-in-law and my placenta

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

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July 7, 2017 Books

Book Giveaway! “Instructions for Chinese Women and Girls” by Ban Zhao

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

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June 13, 2017 Family / Life / Life in Asia / Mother-In-Law / Relationships

How Living in Hong Kong Turned Me into a Feminist

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

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