It’s all at stake when choosing a name for your soon-to-be child. The stakes are doubled when bringing two cultures into the mix. In our case, quadrupled because we’re tasked with finding names for both genders. No one to blame but my stubborn self for not wanting to know…there’s not enough surprises left in life, at least that’s what I keep telling myself.
Tag: family
Expressing Gratitude Across Cultures
谢谢你,感谢你,非常感谢你!
祝大家感恩节快乐!
Thankgiving, Turkey Day, Give Thanks Day, or maybe in your case Fight Off Family Day.
Thank you Xiananigans’ followers, members of the extended, growing online AMWF community; friends, relatives, and most importantly, my husband.
Encounters
Since moving stateside, we’ve had a number of encounters with China, Chinese, Chinese food, and Chinatown.
Review: Good Chinese Wife – A Love Affair With China Gone Wrong by Susan Blumberg-Kason
This post is part of the official Good Chinese Wife blog tour organized by Speaking of China. For more of the twenty four reviews, insights, interviews with Susan Blumberg-Kason* and the like, check out the list here.
A synopsis of sorts: When Susan, a shy Midwesterner in love with Chinese culture, started grad school in Hong Kong, she quickly fell for Cai, the man of her dreams. As they exchanged vows, Susan was sure her life was perfect…until things took a sinister turn. In her eye-opening memoir, Susan recounts her struggle to be the perfect “Chinese” wife to her increasingly controlling and abusive husband. At first, she dismisses her own values to save the marriage. But when Cai threatens to take their son, Jake, back to China for good, Susan must find the courage to stand up for herself, her son, and her future.
When first approached by Speaking of China to review Good Chinese Wife, my initial excitement soon turned to uneasiness as I began to unravel the similarities between myself and Susan Blumberg-Kason.*
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