A new submission for those of you who"ve had experience with Asian girls in Asia (ideally Chinese). I"ll do my best to keep this brief:
I"m a 22-year old white male who"s been studying Chinese intensively in Beijing, and who will continue on living and working in Beijing for at least a year or two. This past Saturday a friend and I are hanging out in the convenience store of our Foreign Students Dorm, when a very pretty Chinese girl who"d been sitting alone at a nearby table approaches us. We all start talking, she"s a student at the university, mentions wanting to learn English and tells us she can help us with Chinese, etc. Conversation continues, friend eventually leaves, but the two of us continue talking for about an hour.
Absolute full disclosure: The girl is really attractive, and I"ve been really craving a relationship of late. Obviously I didn"t say anything of the sort to this chick (who, despite her initial claims to want English practice, is speaking almost exclusively in Chinese [as am I]), but this is just by way of informing you all that my "position", as it were, is weak. I"m talking with this chick for an hour and I already want to go out with her. We make plans to play ping-pong the next day, this past Sunday.
Sunday comes, weather sucks, we end up canceling ping-pong and instead go to a popular shopping area in Beijing. My read on American girls is limited; my read on Chinese girls is practically nonexistent. But the entire night together felt very date-like. Lots of doe-eyed staring at each other on both ends (and not just for lack of a fluid common-language), fair amount of body contact (she"d tug on my arm or play-punch me; I"d muss her hair or touch her face to teach her "glitter" in English), and some utterances that seemed like hints to me ("I so so so so so so like you"; "I really like western eyes and features"). No holding hands, let alone full out hugging/kissing, but I think that"s par-for-the-course in a Chinese relationship, which I"m not even sure this is.
So that night ends, I contact her by text the following day and see if she wants to do something the subsequent day. She gives a tentative yes, but says she may be unable to. Next day comes and she says she can"t. Knowing that Chinese people, and girls in particular, lie habitually, I decide that, not knowing if this is a blow-off for genuine reasons or not, I"ll let her make the next move if she so desires.
Following afternoon I, steadfast person that I am, having not heard from her (see below), break down, text to see if she wants to do dinner, she does, and we have another nice night of dinner and just random strolling around the campus. More playful touching and all-around playful cuteness, but still nothing absolutely indicative of impending relationship. We say goodbye again. This was yesterday.
Some thoughts/curiosities/questions:
1. Why was she "randomly" in the Foreign Students Dorm"s Convenience Store? It seems like to ask the question is to answer it, but some interesting points...
2. If she"s fishing for a foreign boyfriend, she"s done a weird job of expressing interest. Specifically, she"s been almost completely incommunicado when we"re not together, and I"ve initiated both "evenings" we"ve had.
3. If she"s just out for an English partner, (a) she sure as shit doesn"t go out of her way to practice it; she speaks a ton of Chinese when we"re together; (b) see above date-like actions and utterances.
4. She"s not just looking for a sugar-daddy. She"s treated to a bunch of things so far, albeit against my wishes.
5. Does she have a boyfriend? I"ve heard stories of guys getting to know Chinese girls over a period of weeks, thinking they"re en route to a relationship, only to be blindsided by said girl mentioning, nonchalantly, that she has a boyfriend. However I don"t *think* that"s the case here, reason being: She was willing to both eat at a popular restaurant on, and stroll around, campus alone with me. Not definitive, but maybe instructive.
Alright, too long already. I"ll close by asking: Should I make a concerted effort to feign disinterest contra my desires? I.e., let her make the next entreaty and if she should choose not to then so be it? If/when I meet her again, should I ask a direct question -- does she have a boyfriend, would she be interested? Or just take it slow? Thanks, pictures follows~