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CHINESE WEDDING.(Chinese-American wedding season in New York, NY)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 23-DEC-02

Author: Wilkinson, Alec
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COPYRIGHT 2002 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc.

Right now the most likely place in New York City to see a young Chinese woman in a wedding dress--her lips painted the shiny red of a toy fire engine, her shoulders bare and quivering in the cold--is Central Park. This is the Chinese-American wedding season. By the Chinese calendar, only certain days are favorable for weddings. Which ones are congenial for a particular couple are determined by the days the bride and the groom were born, and the hours of their births. The Chinese in Chinatown call pure-blood Chinese born in America "ABC's"--American-born Chinese. They tend to get married on Fridays or Saturdays. First-generation immigrants, whom the Chinese call Newcomers, tend to get married on Sundays, Mondays, or Tuesdays. Many...

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