Dear MeiGui; My girlfriend continuously insists on me buying her presents. We work at the same company in HsinChu and started dating last January. Since then, she has found every excuse in the book to demand I buy her gifts. She has expected that I give her gifts on Western
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When Love is in the Air… in China
The remnants of a typhoon piddled on Qingdao last night, whetting the thirsts of the flowers, trees and citizens, tantalizingly dewy but nowhere near wet enough to slake the dry. So as the sere winds blow in off the Bao Hai Sea, the collective consciousness begins to fret and fray
Read moreOne Taiwanese Would Kiss All of Paris
by Dan Bloom Special to The Wild East A kiss just a kiss. Or is it? A Taiwanese woman named Ya-ching Yang has become famous around the world for a blog she set up about pursuing 100 kisses from Parisian men. Based on a whim she had three years ago,
Read moreDear Rosanne: My Taiwanese BF called me 'big nose'
Originally published in The China Post (but not published anywhere else online). Read more of Rosanne’s witty and hilarious columns for the culturally discombobulated on her new website: rosannelin.com
Read moreDear Rosanne: My foreign neighbor lady doesn't like foreign things
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Dear Rosanne: Why do some Taiwan men grow long pinkie fingernails?
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Read moreDear Rosanne: Foreigner girls don't like local guys like me
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