One Family, Two Systems (The Sweet, Sour, Bitter, and Happy Life of Marrying a Foreigner)

Author: Guo Ying
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Publish Date: 2006-11-01
Features: A grand garden of cross-cultural marriages of Chinese women overseas, revealing the real-life struggles of foreign wives. The author, Guo Ying, spent eleven years in an international marriage and interviewed dozens of cross-cultural wives, all based on first-hand authentic materials, not fictionalized pseudo-documentary. Drawing on her eleven years of experience in Sino-Western marriages and her decade-long friendships with foreign friends, Guo Ying finally unearthed first-hand information that ordinary Chinese people rarely have access to. This is a raw, documentary-style emotional record so real that some Chinese people find it hard to accept. It lays bare the genuine stories of cross-cultural marriages, filled with the sweetness, bitterness, joys, and sorrows of love and hate. One Family, Two Systems—The Sweet and Bitter of Marrying a Foreigner reveals the real-life experiences of cross-cultural marriages, filled with the sweetness, bitterness, joys, and sorrows of love and hate. Some insightful editors from domestic magazines reviewed her manuscript and declared, "Intriguing and subverts the fake cross-cultural love stories of the past." One Family, Two Systems—The Sweet and Bitter of Marrying a Foreigner reveals the real-life experiences of cross-cultural marriages, filled with the sweetness, bitterness, joys, and sorrows of love and hate. Some insightful editors from domestic magazines reviewed her manuscript and declared, "Intriguing and subverts the fake cross-cultural love stories of the past." A grand garden of cross-cultural marriages of Chinese women overseas, revealing the real-life struggles of foreign wives. The author, Guo Ying, spent eleven years in an international marriage and interviewed dozens of cross-cultural wives, all based on first-hand authentic materials, not fictionalized pseudo-documentary. Guo Ying, drawing on her eleven years of experience in Sino-Western marriages and her decade-long friendships with foreign friends, finally unearthed first-hand information that ordinary Chinese people rarely have access to. This is a raw, documentary-style emotional record so real that some Chinese people find it hard to accept. It lays bare the genuine stories of cross-cultural marriages, filled with the sweetness, bitterness, joys, and sorrows of love and hate.