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ThermoMatter: 温度2015 China Contemporary Art Exhibition. July 9, 2015. ThermoMatter: 温度2015 China Contemporary Art Exhibition. October 6, 2014. I’m not ready for this, I’m not ready for this It’s 5pm and the pale bathroom light above my head flickers. I am. It’s come to the point where I am connected through moisture to everything around me. The layers of presence where you can’t tell the difference between the AC spit and the rain for … More Hanging Vases. Chengdu Blue Roof Art Exhibition. October 1, 2014.
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Lessons from My (Failed) Cross-Cultural Marriage
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Lessons from My (Failed) Cross-Cultural Marriage. In talking to people about my new memoir, Good Chinese Wife: A Love Affair with China Gone Wrong. Here are six lessons I’ve learned from my cross-cultural marriage:. 1 It’s not a good idea to romanticize a person or a culture. I thought that was so fascinating and saw Cai more as a figure of history than a normal person who had moved away from his family a young age, never to live with them again. By romanticizing his background, I didn’t think about ...
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The Downtown Diner: In those pink rays of sunrise light, you find yourself again
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Made famous in Beijing, now operating out of Nashville, Tennessee. Sunday, July 5, 2015. In those pink rays of sunrise light, you find yourself again. 8220;I like hugging you because your meat is so squishy! 8221; Grant says. 8220;He has meat too but his is more hard,” he says, jabbing a finger into his father’s ribs. The kids are spending their summer break with Buddy in Beijing and we are meeting in the middle of time and space for our friend Judy’s destination wedding in Honolulu. And on Sunday night ...
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Is China a safe place to live for expat women? My personal experience of harassment by a Chinese guy - China Elevator StoriesChina Elevator Stories
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Is China a safe place to live for expat women? My personal experience of harassment by a Chinese guy. February 25, 2015. A false sense of security. 8220;Is China a safe place to live for expat women? And Zhou JiaYi from Shandongxifu, who was almost gang raped in Shenzhen. But there were a few close calls. Amanda from Two Americans in China has recently shared her experience of assault and harassment in China. She mentions having been threatened by one guy in particular because she’s speaking up:. When I ...
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"Where's your Soviet companion?" - China Elevator StoriesChina Elevator Stories
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8220;Where’s your Soviet companion? March 9, 2015. It’s January, 2015. I go to a bathhouse. When the employee opens my locker, she asks:. Where’s your companion today? Who do you mean? No The tall woman who came to the bathhouse yesterday. The Soviet. Umm, I don’t know that woman. Actually, I don’t know any other foreigners here. The employee stares at me, incredulously. Interestingly, many people in Siping still refer to Russians (I assume that’s what she meant) as Soviets . Follow me on Facebook. There...
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Literate in L.A.: May 2014
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Literate in L.A. The true prose writer knows that there is nothing given, no idea, no text or play seen last evening, until an assault has taken place, the forced domination that we call ‘putting it in your own words.’” Elizabeth Hardwick. Monday, May 19, 2014. Hop To It – Blog-Hopping With Friends. Last week my dear friend, the fabulous writer Janet Brown. To mine, and I am hopping from hers to Diane Vallere’s. The author of Tone Deaf in Bangkok. And the forthcoming Light and Silence. In a completely di...
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Hanging Vases – Assembly
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October 6, 2014. July 9, 2015. I’m not ready for this, I’m not ready for this It’s 5pm and the pale bathroom light above my head flickers. I am. It’s come to the point where I am connected through moisture to everything around me. The layers of presence where you can’t tell the difference between the AC spit and the rain for all that already lingers on your skin. Getting stuck in sticky places. I have to get out. Shuffled onto a plane in the rain with a gaggle of Buddhist nuns. 7am Pokhara. By Bus...
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