China: Women Are Queens

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The China Adventures Of Arielle Gabriel

There is sort of romantic courtship in Chinese culture, and in the first few weeks of a romance, the woman is treated with deference by the male suitor.

The male usually buys a small gift, always pays for the food bills, and behaves with courtliness and attentiveness to the whims

of the woman he is attracted to.

I respect you so much,

the Taiwanese man I dated said to me,

and he said this to me so many times, that I began to wonder!

I saw his excessive manners as a sort of social form. This Taiwanese man I met in Taipei was really quite aggressive, and possibly half-Japanese.

Looking back, he certainly did not fit most stereotypes of Chinese men. Though he was a very intelligent computer professional.