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Good Chinese Wife
Good Chinese Wife: A Love Affair with China Gone Wrong | Susan Blumberg-Kason
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A stunning memoir of an intercultural marriage gone wrong When Susan, a shy Midwesterner in love with Chinese culture, started graduate school in Hong Kong, she quickly fell for Cai, the Chinese man of her dreams. As they exchanged vows, Susan thought she'd stumbled into an exotic fairy tale, until she realized Caiand his culturewhere not what she thought. In her riveting memoir, Susan recounts her struggle to be the perfect traditional "Chinese" wife to her increasingly controlling and abusive husband. With keen insight and heart-wrenching candor, she confronts the hopes and hazards of intercultural marriage, including dismissing her own values and needs to save her relationship and protect her newborn son, Jake. But when Cai threatens to take Jake back to China for good, Susan must find the courage to stand up for herself, her son, and her future. Moving between rural China and the bustling cities of Hong Kong and San Francisco, Good Chinese Wife is an eye-opening look at marriage and family in contemporary China and America and an inspiring testament to the resilience of a mother's loveacross any border.
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Laura317
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Crazy memoir of an American woman married to a mainland Chinese man. I read it to get a better understanding of Chinese marriage culture. I think this might be outdated now. Anyway, I wanted to shake some gumption into the wife and smack the tar outta the husband. Still, it‘s a pick for the story.

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Laura317
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Starting this - “a stunning memoir of an intercultural marriage gone wrong.” Has anyone else read this?

Faibka I‘ve never hear of it but sounds interesting 7y
Laura317 @Faibka It‘s good, but I was disturbed how the wife allows herself to be treated. I am hopeful that things have changed in China somewhat. 7y
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EvieBee
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This was an awesome memoir about an American student who falls in love with a Chinese Mainlander while studying in Hong Kong. After a whirlwind marriage on the heels of a hasty courtship, Susan finds that her husband wasn't anything like he portrayed himself to be. What a nightmare! Her experiences don't diminish her love for China, it's people, food, culture, language and literature. #recommendsday

DebinHawaii It sounds good. Stacked!!📚👍 8y
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Reita325
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Chilling account of how a naive American girl fell in love and married a Chinese man without knowing much about him. Even though this is nonfiction and we know it is going to end badly, it is as suspenseful as any thriller.