Understanding Marriage
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Published: July 31, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9789622093669
Subjects: Marriage; Customs & Traditions; Social Science; Sociology
Description: This book examines changes that occur in the marital relationship today. The author concludes that as "affective individualism" is used to characterize modern marriages in the West, "affective familism" is a more appropriate character of marriages among the Chinese in Hong Kong.