There, while shooting film, she met Jean Oudin, a French ambassador, whom she wed in 1933. The couple had three children in China and French Indochina, and resided in both countries until 1946. Yablonska used a fake business as a front to record daily street traffic in China, and introduced Chinese passers-by to Ukrainian culture.[2] Yablonska wrote From the Land of Rice and Opium (Z kraïny ryzhu ta opiiu; З країни рижу та опію), published in 1936, from her experiences in China and Southeast Asia.[3] It was followed in 1939 by Far Horizons (Daleki obriï; Далекі обрії).[4]