Understanding Marriage ISBN: 9789882202986 Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Hong Kong University Press, HKU Digital rights:Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters Subjects: Spouses; Married people; Marriage;
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.