CHINATOWN WOMEN - PART ONE

Today I am guestposting elsewhere. No, not on any of the usual sites which you might suspect, but on LoveLoveChina, which is Crystal Tao's blog.

Miss Tao describes herself as "a common Chongqing girl who believes that her blog can help foreign men to understand Chinese girls better".

In other words, it's a guide for the perplexed.

Regarding Cantonese girls in particular, I myself am somewhat less perplexed now than I once was.
Or just a lot more opinionated, and possibly even full of hot air.
Feel free to tell me which of those after reading what I wrote.


TONG YAN KAI DIK NOEI YAN - DAI YAT JEUNG
The post in question is this:
http://www.lovelovechina.com/girls/chinatown-women-part-i/
Chinatown Women - Part I (唐人街的女人 - 第一章)

[Tempting quotes: "Consider her family, what they are is what you will have to deal with, and she resembles her mother..."- "all women end up like their mothers" -"things that she did wrong".]

I also encourage you to read the other articles on Crystal Tao's blog - one which is particularly interesting is about Chinese men and what they are like as husbands.
Even if you're not Chinese, you may recognize yourself.


Her post about mah jong also struck a particular chord. A woman I knew a long time ago in South-East Asia was always furious whenever her husband went off to play mahjong with the guys.

"Men would always find something more interesting than their wives"

What she didn't realize was that when he was on a business trip to Taiwan or Singapore, the mahjong addiction kept him from being dragged to massage parlours or girlie-bars by the people he was visiting. Sure, he could always have found something more interesting than his wife - but mahjong kept him loyal.


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