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 between Chinese women and foreigners, revealing the real-life struggles of overseas foreign wives. Based on the author's eleven years of experience in foreign marriages and interviews with dozens of cross-cultural couples, all with authentic firsthand materials, not fictionalized pseudo-documentary. Guo Ying, drawing on her eleven years of experience in Sino-Western marriages and her decade-long friendship with foreign friends, has finally unearthed firsthand information that ordinary Chinese people rarely have access to. This is a raw, documentary-style emotional record that is so real it's even hard for some Chinese people to accept. It lays bare the true stories of cross-cultural marriages, filled with the sweetness, bitterness, joys, and sorrows of love and hatred. A Dual System – The Sweet and Bitter of Marrying a Foreigner lays bare the true stories of cross-cultural marriages, filled with the sweetness, bitterness, joys, and sorrows of love and hatred. Some insightful editors from domestic magazines, after reading her manuscript, declared: "Thought-provoking, it subverts the fake cross-cultural love stories of the past." A Dual System – The Sweet and Bitter of Marrying a Foreigner lays bare the true stories of cross-cultural marriages, filled with the sweetness, bitterness, joys, and sorrows of love and hatred. Some insightful editors from domestic magazines, after reading her manuscript, declared: "Thought-provoking, it subverts the fake cross-cultural love stories of the past." A grand garden of cross-cultural marriages between Chinese women and foreigners, revealing the real-life struggles of overseas foreign wives. Based on the author's eleven years of experience in foreign marriages and interviews with dozens of cross-cultural couples, all with authentic firsthand materials, not fictionalized pseudo-documentary. Guo Ying, drawing on her eleven years of experience in Sino-Western marriages and her decade-long friendship with foreign friends, has finally unearthed firsthand information that ordinary Chinese people rarely have access to. This is a raw, documentary-style emotional record that is so real it's even hard for some Chinese people to accept. It lays bare the true stories of cross-cultural marriages, filled with the sweetness, bitterness, joys, and sorrows of love and hatred.