Before you even crack open “The Good Chinese Wife: A Love Affair With China Gone Wrong,” you kind of already know what it’s going to be about. A woman tries to be a good Chinese wife, but her marriage fails anyways. I wasn’t expecting it to be a trashy romance, romantic-comedy book… and ended up really loving the book. I was interested in this book not only because it is about an American woman married to a Chinese man – a rarity because the only other books I know in that field are “Kissing Outside the Lines” by Diana Farr [American wife, Korean husband] and “Marriage in Translation” by Wendy Nelson Tokunaga [anthology of American/foreign wife, Japanese husband] – but also because it promised an ‘unhappy’ ending. I used to, well, love “Love stories.” But then I actually fell in love and got married. Now I find myself frustrated with the “Happily Ever After” ending, like getting married magically “solves” all your problems. Marriage doesn’t solve any problems. If anything, it makes some of them worse. The arguments my husband and I have as a married couple are completely different than the arguments we had as “just” boyfriend/girlfriend. It’s not such [...]
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