I benefitted from the help of
many Chinese men who were my good friends and thoughtful students... their decisiveness helped me to find jobs, get to train
station on time, order large and complicated meals in all sorts of wonderful restaurants.
They served freely as interpreters
and translators, and I was and am grateful for their commanding ways.
I was certainly shown much warmth
and affection by Chinese women frienda as well, some of whom were very successful career women.
I do not mind this trait in
China, for I have seen wealthy Chinese men have relatives calling them at all hours of the day, talking them about minor domestic
problems.
Also, these same men economically
supported aunts, cousins, sisters, and even female in-laws - they did a lot for women!
