When Laowai Ladies Meet Chinese Gentlemen: The Different Dating Expectations Last year in August, whilst I was puzzling over how to prepare my British friends' first visit to Chengdu, my American friend Facebooked me an article published on the E-ChinaCities titled: ‘Chinese men, Western women: differences in dating’ written by blogger Susan Walker. It went in depth explaining why most western women are uninterested dating Chinese men including reasons from how Asian men are being falsely portrayed in the Western media to different dating cultures, lack of sexual experience and most im