Try Taobao.

It's pretty standard practice in Asia to include a photo of yourself on your resume. In South Korea they also like to know about personal stuff like age, marital status, kids etc.

I think the immigrant route would work provided that you actually intend to reside in the US, but if you just want to come for a visit I suspect it might not work out well. There are a couple of issues. First being that while you are an American, you are not currently a permanent resident of the US. Assuming that you are, and you got the immigrant visa for your spouse, it would take a bit of money and several months of waiting for the visa to come through.

I don't know how strict the travel restrictions are for spouses on green cards, but in my case (immigrated to the US on an H visa), if I left the US for more than a certain period of time the greencard would expire and could not reissued (one strike you're out). More than 6 months out of the country derails your path to citizenship, and more than 2.5 years out of the country will cost you the greencard. As I said, there may be exceptions to your case since it involves a legal partnership. You can try consulting an immigration lawyer on this one, but I personally found these people to be completely useless. Everything I learned was through wikipedia and the US gubmint website.

I just applied for a US tourist visa for my Chinese wife to visit my parents this Christmas (both of us now permanently residing in Toronto), and I just went through all their paperwork bullshit again. They just changed their website system recently, and it's half broken (like everything else in the US these days). But at least now you can submit the photo digitally rather than having to waste your time with a professional photographer. I'm highly skeptical the visa will come through, but as it's on my parent's dime I figure what the hell.

I married a Chinese woman in 2008. I am Canadian, but at the time I was a permanent resident of the US (now a dual citizen). Being on a greencard in the US is a really bad situation to be in if you marry a foreigner, as there isn't a practical way of bringing your wife over. I attempted to get my wife a tourist visa just to meet my damn family and was denied several times. So instead my wife applied for a tourist visa to Canada, which was granted. I think if you can prove substantial assets (money in the bank, a house) or employment, then being in a marriage shouldn't be a big concern.

Now that I am also a US citizen I would like to attempt to get my wife the tourist visa to the US again (to visit family). However, things are now different as she has permanent residence in Canada, which supposedly makes it easy to get a 10 year tourist visa to the US. Being married to a US citizen supposedly brings few benefits to this process.

I would guess that if you can provide some solid proof of assets in China that this would substantially improve your wife's chances of getting the tourist visa. However, having been treated as subhuman by US immigration for over 10 years myself, I am less than optimistic. Those people are seriously fucking assholes (and they don't like Chinese). You had better be prepared to do a lot of paperwork and face rejection.

The poor quality of the water in China is the reason why I am no longer able to live there. I have a chronic skin condition which allows the sediment in the water easily pass through the skin barrier, causing terrible dryness and an unbearable chronic itch.

I've lived in many areas of China, and pretty much all seem to suffer from poor water sanitation to some degree. I moved to Dali for a time as I hoped to seek refuge in a *clean* environment. It's not so much a problem with pollution as it is the lack of proper infrastructure. Without investing in a large, expensive well water treatment system there is little hope of me returning at present.

I apologise for trying to focus on my own personal problems, but I am just trying to illustrate that the problem you have noted with your water is not trivial, and you likely won't be able to find a solution without spending some serious bucks.

Aside from the shitty brown sediment causing problems with skin and hair, it also ruins my laundry, ceramic fixtures, food, and I just can't ever seem to get anything clean really.

If you are renting there's not much you can do about this problem. However, if you have your own place your best option is invest in a large backwashing filter. The filter medium will depend on what kind of crap you need to filter out. An activated carbon filter is good at removing chlorine and byproducts. However, if you have iron in your water (usually causes rust coloured stains) you will need something else. These types of filters can also be fouled easily if a huge mess of brown sludge suddenly comes down the pipeline, and then you need to consider installing a large retention tank.