This paper shows how Vietnamese brides create new transnational subjectivities through practicing maternal citizenship at the China-Vietnam border. It focuses on discussing different strategies they have adopted in their daily lives: 1) blurring the boundaries between house-keeper and breadwinner; 2) developing dual belonging; 3) establishing transnational maternal alliances; and 4) neutralizing ethnicity/nationality differences. The authors argue that through forming a ‘‘creolized’’ culture, Vietnamese brides have engaged in a conscious attempt to master both Chinese and Vietnamese elements in their making of a new transnational identity. The China-Vietnam border not only provides a favorable context for the development of personal relationships, but these relationships are also an attractive strategy for gaining a social foothold in the more and more globalized world, whether they are in a cosmopolitan center or cosmopolitan periphery.