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31 December 2013
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24 December 2013
生日快乐, 毛主席...Shengri Kuaile, Mao Zhuxi
Mao Zhuxi was born on 12/26/1893, making this the 120th year of the immaculate, miraculous birth of the Great Helmsman...
14 December 2013
China Lands on the Moon!!!
Today, China became the third country to land an unmanned vehicle on the moon. The Chang'e III successfully landed this morning, Beijing time.
12 December 2013
Breaking: Kim Jung-un Executes His Uncle
North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un's powerful uncle executed
SEOUL
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1 OF 5. Jang Song Thaek, with his hands tied with a rope, is dragged into the court by uniformed personnel in this December 13, 2013 picture taken from Rodong Sinmun December 12, 2013 and released by Yonhap.
CREDIT: REUTERS/YONHAP
(Reuters) - North Korea said on Friday the uncle of leader Kim Jong Un, previously considered the second most powerful man in the secretive state, has been executed for treason, the biggest upheaval since the death of Kim's father two years ago.
The North's official KCNA news agency said Jang Song Thaek had been executed after a special military tribunal found him guilty of treason, only days after he was stripped of all posts and expelled from the ruling Workers' Party.
News of the execution followed a swirl of unconfirmed media reports that one or more of Jang's aides had defected to South Korea. The South's spy agency says it has no knowledge of any such defections.
North Korean politics are virtually impenetrable from outside and the reason could also easily be a falling out between Kim and his uncle, or even with Jang's wife.
If true, the execution caps a spectacular downfall for a man who had long been a fixture in North Korea's leadership.
"The accused Jang brought together undesirable forces and formed a faction as the boss of a modern day factional group for a long time and thus committed such hideous crime as attempting to overthrow the state," KCNA said.
"The special military tribunal of the Ministry of State Security of the DPRK ... ruled that he would be sentenced to death according to it. The decision was immediately executed," it said, using the North's title of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
The official Rodong Sinmun newspaper also on Friday carried a photograph of Jang in handcuffs and being held by uniformed guards as he stood trial. It is not known how the sentence was carried out.
Jang was a vice chairman of the powerful National Defense Commission and a member of Workers' Party politburo.
Married to the sister of Kim's father, Kim Jong Il, Jang had been considered the man who could help his nephew establish himself in power but at the same time presented the greatest threat to the young and untested leader.
"This is a man who could have competently executed a coup in North Korea," said Mike Madden, an expert on the North's power structure and author of the North Korea Leadership Watch website and blog.
"He knows how the body guards work, how the security forces in Pyongyang work, how state security works - this guy had very intimate knowledge about very key nodes of control in North Korea," Madden said.
Earlier this week, North Korea stripped Jang of his power and positions, accusing him of criminal acts including mismanagement of the state financial system, womanizing and alcohol abuse.
"From long ago, Jang had a dirty political ambition. He dared not raise his head when Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il were alive," KCNA said, referring to leader Kim's grandfather and father, the previous rulers of the dynastic state.
"He began revealing his true colors, thinking that it was just the time for him to realize his wild ambition in the period of historic turn when the generation of the revolution was replaced," it said.
Regional powers have watched the purge of Jang and his associates - conducted in a rare, publicly prominent manner -for implications to regional security.
South Korea's presidential Blue House was holding a ministerial meeting to review the developments.
The United States said it was following the developments in North Korea and consulting with allies in the region.
"If confirmed, this is another example of the extreme brutality of the North Korean regime," said Patrick Ventrell, a spokesman for the White House's National Security Council.
(Additional reporting by James Pearson in HONG KONG and Matt Spetalnick in WASHINGTON; Editing by Paul Tait)
07 December 2013
RACIST WEST COVINA
IF YOU ARE ASIAN OR BLACK, DON'T BOTHER APPLYING FOR JOBS WITH THE CITY OF WEST COVINA. THEY ONLY HIRE WHITES AND HISPANICS.
FUCK RACISM!
FUCK RACISM!
28 November 2013
Is China a Paper Tiger?
Only hours after China published its air defense zone, South Korean, Japanese, and US military jets have crossed into the zone without reporting to the Chinese authorities, as required by the new edict. In fact, even Japanese civilian airlines have crossed into the zone without filing their flight plans with China.
So does China's muted reaction to the violations of its airspace make it a paper tiger? Or is the air defense zone just the first step of a brilliant strategy to resolve the dispute over the Diaoyu Islands with Japan in China's favour?
What do you think?
27 November 2013
THEY STOLE THEIR MONEY FAIR AND SQUARE...
Chinese buying up California housing
Nov. 25, 2013 at 1:44 PM ET
Video: CNBC's Diana Olick reports that Chinese home buyers are looking to United States real estate as an investment in their childrens' and their families' futures.
At a brand new housing development in Irvine, Calif., some of America's largest home builders are back at work after a crippling housing crash. Lennar, Pulte, K Hovnanian, Ryland to name a few. It's a rebirth for U.S. construction, while the customers are largely Chinese.
"They see the market here still has room for appreciation," said Irvine-area real estate agent Kinney Yong, of RE/MAX Premier Realty. "What's driving them over here is that they have this cash, and they want to park it somewhere or invest somewhere."
Yong's phone has been ringing off the hook, with more than 5,000 new homes slated for the nearby Great Park Neighborhood. Most of the calls are from overseas, but prospective buyers are not looking solely for financial returns on the real estate.
"We are seeing a lot of Asians who are buying as an investment, but their kids are going to school here, so kids live in the home. They are looking at it more as an investment in education," said Emile Haddad, CEO of Fivepoint Communities, developer of the Great Park Neighborhood.
That is Brian Yang's plan. Speaking from his home in China, Yang said he purchased a home in Irvine this year, but he will wait five years, until his daughter turns 10, before moving his family to the U.S. He has several reasons for taking the leap.
"Education in America is very good and world class, so the first one is for education, and I think the second one is for the property appreciation," explained Yang.
While American secondary schools and universities are a big draw for the majority of Chinese buyers in California, Yang, and many of his colleagues, are also concerned about China's political instability, inflation, even pollution. They are paying all-cash for real estate in California, using it as a safe-haven for their wealth. Yang was reluctant to talk about the money, but he admitted, "I feel the same way to some extent."
For now, Yang is renting out the four-bedroom home, and, he said, getting a 5 percent return on the investment.
While Yang purchased an older home, the new model homes at Great Park are drawing thousands of potential buyers. In fact, more than 20,000 attended the opening weekend, according to developers. The vast majority of lookers were Asian, and that fact is not lost on the builders. Hoping to cash in on this new wave of investors, they are tailoring the homes to the demand. Some are incorporating multigenerational floor plans and even Feng Shui designs.
"The imbalance of supply and demand here is really driving a lot of competition for these homes," said Haddad.
The homes range from the mid-$700,000s to well over $1 million. Cash is king, and there is a seemingly limitless amount.
"The price doesn't matter, $800,000, 1 million, 1.5. If they like it they will purchase it," said Helen Zhang of Tarbell Realtors.
Zhang was coming out of one of the models with a Chinese couple pushing a toddler in a stroller and carrying an infant. As our CNBC camera crew interviewed Zhang, another group of potential buyers roaming the neighborhood models raised their brochures to hide their faces when they saw the camera.
While no one would say specifically why certain families were shying away from the media, some alluded to the fact that many of the buyers don't want any questions about where the cash is coming from. Some are buying multiple homes as investments, while others are moving their families to the U.S., intending to stay at least until their children graduate from college.
—By CNBC's Diana Olick. Follow her on Twitter @Diana_Olick.
24 November 2013
So Sad :--( Life Imitating Art
From www.chinasmack.com
Husband and Wife Desiring Child Discovers They Are Brother and Sister, Wife’s Father and Husband’s Mother Were Lovers
In Jiangxi Province, a young married couple were always teased for “looking like each other”. Not long ago, the wife’s father suddenly spoke of a secret: it turns out that many years ago, he and the husband’s mother were secret lovers. Later on, the husband’s mother became pregnant, while the wife’s father fell in love and married someone else. On top of that, the husband’s mother has been dead for over 20 years, so this secret was almost buried forever, up until this young married couple decided to have a child…
In early November, the couple chose to go to the Furong Forensic Centre of the No. 2 Provincial People’s Hospital in Hunan in order to do a DNA test. The results dealt them a heavy blow.
As they prepared to start a family, the wife’s father revealed past events
Cao Wei and Xiao Qian (aliases) both grew up in the same city in Jiangxi Province. They lived near each other and had known each other since they were youngsters. Cao Wei is 4 years older than Xiao Qian and always looked after her the way a big brother would. Their relationship gradually began to change ever so subtlety, eventually becoming a romantic relationship.
Last year, they revealed to both their parents that they wanted to get married. Cao Wei’s mother had passed away when he was only 4 years old, and his father didn’t get very involved in the wedding. Xiao Qian’s mother thought the young man was quite nice, while her father, Bao Gen (alias) remained silent the entire time.
The young couple got a marriage certificate without any problems, and lived happily together. Other people often teased them, that they looked so similar, especially Cao Wei, who looked more and more like he could be Bao Gen’s son and Xiao Qian’s elder brother. Then this year, the couple decided to have a child. But here, Bao Gen suddenly revealed a deep secret.
20 years ago, Bao Gen was still only 18 years old and unmarried. Next door lived a young married woman in her twenties, whose husband was often away from home, and so Bao Gen frequently called by. Later on, this evolved into a physical relationship, which lasted for almost 2 years. Afterwards, the young woman became pregnant, and Bao Gen too found a girlfriend/wife.
As it turns out, the child she gave birth to was Cao Wei.
They find out they are brother and sister through DNA testing
Bao Gen says no one came to trouble him about the situation in the many years that has passed by since — he just pondered over it once in a while. In fact, he thought something was amiss early on, and when some of his old neighbours who were familiar with the romantic exploits of his youth happened to come round and make fun of the couple, he broke out in a sweat.
Although he realised that Cao Wei might be a blood relative, he wasn’t brave enough to stop the marriage between the two youngsters, nor was he brave enough to bring the events of 20 years ago out in the open, so he chose to remain silent.
In fact, Xiao Qian also had her suspicions, and therefore specifically asked a distant relative to seek confirmation from her father. The truth left her stunned – could it really be that the husband she’s been living with for nearly two years now is actually her elder half-brother? In the future, what would happen if they had children?
The young couple decided to do a paternity test. In early November, after taking blood samples from Cao Wei and Bao Gen at the Furong Forensic Centre of the No. 2 Provincial People’s Hospital, they carried out a DNA test. The results came out very quickly: the probability that they were blood relatives was over 99.9% and, according to international practice, this supported the fact that a biological father-son relationship existed between them. This meant that Cao Wei and Xiao Qian were brother and sister.
On November 20th, legal medical expert and head of the material evidence examination room at the Forensic Centre, Dr Huang Jian, said it was currently unknown how Cao Wei and Xiao Qian would deal with their marriage. She believes that Bao Gen’s irresponsibility not only thoroughly discredits him, but has also deeply hurt his children.
Data
Furong Forensic Centre of the No. 2 Provincial People’s Hospital
Strong>Paternity tests increasing by 20% and more each year
A member of staff at the Furong Forensic Centre of the No. 2 Provincial People’s Hospital explained that the main types of people that come in for paternity tests are: husbands who are suspicious that the child isn’t biologically theirs, divorced couples who, after doing a paternity test, can guarantee that the child they will be supporting is biologically theirs, pregnant ladies who perhaps had extra marital affairs and therefore can’t determine who the baby’s father is (in particular, cases of testing amniotic fluid during pregnancy are increasingly common), couples who used a surrogate mother who want to check the child is in fact biologically theirs, immigrants who want official documents proving that their children are biologically theirs, or those that need scientific evidence for inheritance laws or other legal disputes…
Why are more and more people walking through the doors of forensic testing centres? Staff believe that at the moment, many people’s incomes are rising, the number of social services are increasing, and the costs are also decreasing. On top of that, cases of extra-marital affairs and one night stands, etc. are more frequent than in the past, and the number of children born out of wedlock is relatively high, plus the feeling of trust between husband and wife is gradually fading away. Each year, the number of these types of tests is 20% or more greater than the year before, and that’s in Furong Forensic Centre of the No. 2 Provincial People’s Hospital alone.
Comments from NetEase:
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The test will say they’re brother and sister, and the daddy isn’t you.
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May all lovers in the world be siblings.
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DNA tests really are useful.
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Faint.
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Actually, close relatives marrying merely increases the probability of the child having hereditary diseases, it doesn’t necessarily result in hereditary diseases. If the members of the family itself have no pathogenic genes, then it’s not a big problem. Albert Einstein’s parents were close relatives.
寂寞其实也是一种享受 [网易上海市网友]:
Some senior official’s daughter went off travelling, suddenly she discovered a girl who looked extremely similar to her, so stepped forward and asked her: Hey, was your mum a servant in this senior official’s house? The girl replied: my mum has never left the village, but actually my dad was that official’s bodyguard.
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I heard in the past that close relatives can’t get married, that if they got married and had children then the children wouldn’t survive, or they would be deformed!
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If this type of situation is more and more common in China in the future, will the quality of our race decline?
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This type of thing happens more often in the south, because there’s a lot of [marriage between close relatives] in the south, especially Guangdong.
网易北京市手机网友 ip：114.66.*.*
When I read the second half, I felt like it was an advert for the Furong Forensic Centre.
Image: For illustration only, not related to individuals in article.
23 November 2013
Fair and Balanced Piece on Vietnam Three Years After Liberation (1978)
John Pilger's excellent reporting on Vietnam three years after the fall of Saigon. Love the 1978 hairdo!!!
22 November 2013
12 November 2013
FILTHY RICH...ACTUALLY JUST FILTHY
11/12/13 (November 12, 2013)
CHINESE BUSINESSMAN PAID SLUTTY MODEL rmb100,000 (usd 16,000) so that he could suck milk from her breasts like a baby...
Model's name is Mo Lulu.
So much for Xi Jinping's curb on hedonism...
CHINESE BUSINESSMAN PAID SLUTTY MODEL rmb100,000 (usd 16,000) so that he could suck milk from her breasts like a baby...
Model's name is Mo Lulu.
So much for Xi Jinping's curb on hedonism...
03 November 2013
02 November 2013
27 October 2013
24 October 2013
Forget the Language Lessons; The Teacher is Effing HAWT!!!
TEACHER, I'VE BEEN A BAD BOY AND NEED TO BE PUNISHED!
Right-winged Talk Jock Got Single Mom Fired!
By Michael Henchard
I cringed when I listened to conservative talk show host Sean Hannity egged on an unsophisticated but friendly call center operator to badmouth Obamacare. The call center is set up to help people enroll in the controversial health insurance program.
I knew the single mom would be fired. She was falling for every one of Hannity's trick question. In fact, I had to turn off the radio because it was so sickening.
Well, today, we found out that she was fired from her job at the call center. She's a single mom living in Panama City, Florida.
I cringed when I listened to conservative talk show host Sean Hannity egged on an unsophisticated but friendly call center operator to badmouth Obamacare. The call center is set up to help people enroll in the controversial health insurance program.
I knew the single mom would be fired. She was falling for every one of Hannity's trick question. In fact, I had to turn off the radio because it was so sickening.
Well, today, we found out that she was fired from her job at the call center. She's a single mom living in Panama City, Florida.
22 October 2013
HORNY TOADS!
by Bian-lian Huang
Ever since July 28, 2013, when we casually posted an entry about Evelyn Lin's retirement from porn, that particular posting has continuously been the most popular story on the Fairbank Report, garnering thousands of hits.
You, horny toads, you!
20 October 2013
AT LAST, ASIAN LADIES ARE COMING TO THEIR SENSES
FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/fashion/more-asian-americans-marrying-within-their-race.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
By RACHEL L. SWARNS
Published: March 30, 2012
WHEN she was a philosophy student at Harvard College eight years ago,
Liane Young never thought twice about all the interracial couples who
flitted across campus, arm and arm, hand in hand. Most of her Asian
friends had white boyfriends or girlfriends. In her social circles, it
was simply the way of the world.
Michael J Charles Photography
Xin Gao and Liane Young married last June.
Peter DaSilva for The New York Times
Ann Liu, a Taiwanese-American, and her husband,
Stephen Arboleda, a Filipino-American, who married in October, in San
Francisco.
Jerry Yoon Photographers
Ann Liu and Stephen Arboleda in October at their
wedding in San Francisco. Ms. Liu later changed into a qipao.
But today, the majority of Ms. Young’s Asian-American friends on
Facebook have Asian-American husbands or wives. And Ms. Young, a
Boston-born granddaughter of Chinese immigrants, is married to a Harvard
medical student who loves skiing and the Pittsburgh Steelers and just
happens to have been born in Fujian Province in China.
Ms. Young said she hadn’t been searching for a boyfriend with an Asian
background. They met by chance at a nightclub in Boston, and she is
delighted by how completely right it feels. They have taken lessons
together in Cantonese (which she speaks) and Mandarin (which he speaks),
and they hope to pass along those languages when they have children
someday.
“We want Chinese culture to be a part of our lives and our kids’ lives,”
said Ms. Young, 29, an assistant professor of psychology at Boston
College who married Xin Gao, 27, last year. “It’s another part of our marriage that we’re excited to tackle together.”
Interracial marriage rates are at an all-time high
in the United States, with the percentage of couples exchanging vows
across the color line more than doubling over the last 30 years. But
Asian-Americans are bucking that trend, increasingly choosing their soul
mates from among their own expanding community.
From 2008 to 2010, the percentage of Asian-American newlyweds who were
born in the United States and who married someone of a different race
dipped by nearly 10 percent, according to a recent analysis
of census data conducted by the Pew Research Center. Meanwhile, Asians
are increasingly marrying other Asians, a separate study shows, with matches between the American-born and foreign-born jumping to 21 percent in 2008, up from 7 percent in 1980.
Asian-Americans still have one of the highest interracial marriage rates
in the country, with 28 percent of newlyweds choosing a non-Asian
spouse in 2010, according to census data. But a surge in immigration
from Asia over the last three decades has greatly increased the number
of eligible bachelors and bachelorettes, giving young people many more
options among Asian-Americans. It has also inspired a resurgence of
interest in language and ancestral traditions among some newlyweds.
In 2010, 10.2 million Asian immigrants were living in the United States,
up from 2.2 million in 1980. Today, foreign-born Asians account for
about 60 percent of the Asian-American population here, census data
shows.
“Immigration creates a ready pool of marriage partners,” said Daniel T.
Lichter, a demographer at Cornell University who, along with Zhenchao
Qian of Ohio State University, conducted the study on marriages between
American-born and foreign-born Asians. “They bring their language, their
culture and reinforce that culture here in the United States for the
second and third generations.”
Before she met Mr. Gao, Ms. Young had dated only white men, with the
exception of a biracial boyfriend in college. She said she probably
wouldn’t be planning to teach her children Cantonese and Mandarin if her
husband had not been fluent in Mandarin. “It would be really hard,”
said Ms. Young, who is most comfortable speaking in English.
Ed Lin, 36, a marketing director in Los Angeles who was married in
October, said that his wife, Lily Lin, had given him a deeper
understanding of many Chinese traditions. Mrs. Lin, 32, who was born in
Taiwan and grew up in New Orleans, has taught him the terms in Mandarin
for his maternal and paternal grandparents, familiarized him with the
red egg celebrations for newborns and elaborated on other cultural
customs, like the proper way to exchange red envelopes on Chinese New
Year.
“She brings to the table a lot of small nuances that are embedded
culturally,” Mr. Lin said of his wife, who has also encouraged him to
serve tea to his elders and refer to older people as aunty and uncle.
Of course, race is only one of many factors that can come to bear in the
complicated calculus of romance. And marriage trends vary among Asians
of different nationalities, according to C. N. Le, a sociologist at the
University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Dr. Le found
that in 2010 Japanese-American men and women had the highest rates of
intermarriage to whites while Vietnamese-American men and Indian women
had the lowest rates.
The term Asian, as defined by the Census Bureau, encompasses a broad
group of people who trace their origins to the Far East, Southeast Asia
or the Indian subcontinent, including countries like Cambodia, China,
India, Japan, Korea, the Philippine Islands and Vietnam. (The Pew
Research Center also included Pacific Islanders in its study.)
Wendy Wang, the author of the Pew report, said that demographers have
yet to conduct detailed surveys or interviews of newlyweds to help
explain the recent dip in interracial marriages among native-born
Asians. (Statistics show that the rate of interracial marriage among
Asians has been declining since 1980.) But in interviews, several
couples said that sharing their lives with someone who had a similar
background played a significant role in their decision to marry.
It is a feeling that has come as something of a surprise to some young
Asian-American women who had grown so comfortable with interracial
dating that they began to assume that they would end up with white
husbands. (Intermarriage rates are significantly higher among Asian
women than among men. About 36 percent of Asian-American women married
someone of another race in 2010, compared with about 17 percent of
Asian-American men.)
Chau Le, 33, a Vietnamese-American lawyer who lives in Boston, said that
by the time she received her master’s degree at Oxford University in
2004, her parents had given up hope that she would marry a Vietnamese
man. It wasn’t that she was turning down Asian-American suitors; those
dates simply never led to anything more serious.
Ms. Le said she was a bit wary of Asian-American men who wanted their
wives to handle all the cooking, child rearing and household chores. “At
some point in time, I guess I thought it was unlikely,” she said. “My
dating statistics didn’t look like I would end up marrying an Asian
guy.”
But somewhere along the way, Ms. Le began thinking that she needed to
meet someone slightly more attuned to her cultural sensibilities. That
moment might have occurred on the weekend she brought a white boyfriend
home to meet her parents.
Ms. Le is a gregarious, ambitious corporate lawyer, but in her parents’
home, she said, “There’s a switch that you flip.” In their presence, she
is demure. She looks down when she speaks, to demonstrate her respect
for her mother and father. She pours their tea, slices their fruit and
serves their meals, handing them dishes with both hands. Her white
boyfriend, she said, was “weirded out” by it all.
“I didn’t like that he thought that was weird,” she said. “That’s my
role in the family. As I grew older, I realized a white guy was much
less likely to understand that.”
In fall 2010, she became engaged to Neil Vaishnav, an Indian-American
lawyer who was born in the United States to immigrant parents, just as
she was. They agreed that husbands and wives should be equal partners in
the home, and they share a sense of humor that veers toward wackiness.
(He encourages her out-of-tune singing and high kicks in karaoke bars.)
But they also revere their family traditions of cherishing their elders.
Mr. Vaishnav, 30, knew instinctively that he should not kiss her in
front of her parents or address them by their first names. “He has the
same amount of respect and deference towards my family that I do,” said
Ms. Le, who is planning a September wedding that is to combine Indian
and Vietnamese traditions. “I didn’t have to say, ‘Oh, this is how I am
in my family.’ ”
Ann Liu, 33, a Taiwanese-American human resources coordinator in San
Francisco, had a similar experience. She never imagined that an
Asian-American husband was in the cards. Because she had never dated an
Asian man before, her friends tried to discourage Stephen Arboleda, a
Filipino-American engineer, when he asked whether she was single. “She
only dates white guys,” they warned.
But Mr. Arboleda, 33, was undeterred. “I’m going to change that,” he told them.
By then, Ms. Liu was ready for a change. She said she had grown
increasingly uncomfortable with dating white men who dated only
Asian-American women. “It’s like they have an Asian fetish,” she said.
“I felt like I was more like this ‘concept.’ They couldn’t really
understand me as a person completely.”
Mr. Arboleda was different. He has a sprawling extended family — and
calls his older relatives aunty and uncle — just as she does. And he
didn’t blink when she mentioned that she thought that her parents might
live with her someday, a tradition among some Asian-American families.
At their October wedding in San Francisco, Ms. Liu changed from a sleek,
sleeveless white wedding gown into the red, silk Chinese dress called
the qipao. Several of Mr. Arboleda’s older relatives wore the white,
Filipino dress shirts known as the barong.
“There was this bond that I had never experienced before in my dating
world,” she said. “It instantly worked. And that’s part of the reason I
married him.”
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