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	18: Women, Faith, Marriage
		We could say that marriage and family were, for all intents and purposes, the sum total of the space allotted to the traditional woman for her existence.
		In their view of marriage, Chinese women Christians are influenced by society and culture on the one hand and church teachings on the other.
		Marriage and family is the most fundamental social unit and its sensitivity to these changes means it is the first to be affected and dissolve.
	www.amitynewsservice.org /page.php?page=1544 (5565 words)

	Malthusian Mythology and Chinese Reality: The Population History of One Quarter of Humanity, 1700-2000 - Shorenstein ...
		Malthus thus concluded that Chinese population processes were dominated by the positive rather than the preventive check, noting that "famines were the most powerful and frequent of all positive checks to the Chinese population." Population processes inexorably doomed China to poverty and worse.
		The Chinese demographic system, in other words, was characterized by a great deal of human agency and individual choices that balanced marital passion and parental love with arranged marriage, the need to regulate coitus, the decision to kill or give away children, and the adoption of other children.
		For Chinese, deliberate fertility control has long been within the "calculus of conscious choice." China's unusually rapid fertility transition may, therefore, be attributed to the fact that the Chinese people did not require a change in attitude, only the establishment of new goals and institutions, along with the diffusion of effective technologies.
	ieas.berkeley.edu /shorenstein/1998.05.html (2259 words)

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		Patrilocal marriage means not only that women move across the kinship system, from their natal families to their husbands' families, but also that they move geographically, from their natal villages to their husbands' villages.
		Liu then goes on to calculate the wives' age at marriage from the differences between their and their husbands' ages, using the average figure for males and the mean age difference between husbands and wives to obtain a figure of 16.1 years for women.
		Adding the 2 years from the marriage to the daughter's birth to the 4.6 years until the son's birth, we have 25% of the couples with a son born a mean of 6.6 years after the marriage.
	faculty.washington.edu /stevehar/ageatmarriage.html (2939 words)

	MARRIAGE IN CHINA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Chinese students generally are permitted to marry if all the requirements are met, but they can expect to be expelled from school as soon as they do.
		Upon receipt of an application to register a marriage, the civil affairs office will ascertain that both parties are of minimum marriageability age (generally 22 for men and 20 for women, although a higher minimum may be established by the local civil affairs office) and that both parties are single and otherwise free to marry.
		Since proof of termination of all previous marriages will again be required when you file an immigrant visa petition on your spouse's behalf, we recommend that you do not surrender the certified copies of death certificates or divorce or annulment decrees to the civil affairs office.
	www.usembassy-china.org.cn /us-citizen/mrginfo.html (1423 words)

	Culture
		Minor marriage was the transference of a girl, around the ages of 8-10, from her natal family to her prospective spouse’s family.
		The Marriage Law of 1980 had many requirements: 1) the marriage had to be voluntary on both parts, 2) the marriage had to be between non-related individuals, and 3) the couple had to be together in person to receive licensure (Hershatter and Honig 138).
		In the past, marriage signified the passage of a woman from her natal family to the family of the groom.
	faculty.rmwc.edu /fwebb/buck/vmguarisco/Culture.htm (1708 words)

	Chinese marriage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Chinese society males should not marry females of the same surname (this have been largely disregarded in recent era as the Chinese population expanded to such an extent that people who hold the same surname might have little or no relation with each other at all).
		Marriage of a son to close relatives of his mother, however, is not seen as incest.
		Marriages were chosen based upon the needs of reproduction and honor, as well as the needs of the father and husband.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chinese_marriage (2170 words)

	Women in China
		Marriage is part of a society’s kinship system, which defines the bonds and linkages between a man and a woman, and their families.
		Chinese Custom.) The term marriage in Chinese, hun-yin 婚姻, implied that marriage was a relationship between families for the good of the two surnames that were joined.
		Traditions of Arranged Marriages in China.) The bride’s family provided dowries for the brides and sent them to the groom’s family to indicate that they were not “selling” their daughter.
	www.indiana.edu /~ealc100/Group1/Maggie/Maggie.htm (1619 words)

	Chinese Marriage
		The free choice of one's marriage partner is becoming increasingly accepted (although outside pressures still exist), as is a quiet wedding.
		The Marriage Law of 1981 stipulates the right to divorce, but compared to Western countries it is still a relatively rare phenomenon.
		After this 'ghost' marriage, the woman could adopt a son, who would then be able to transmit the family's surname down to future generations.
	www.sacu.org /marriage.html (846 words)

	MARRIAGE LAW OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
		[Article 3] Marriage upon arbitrary decision by any third party, mercenary marriage and any other acts of interference in the freedom of marriage shall be prohibited.
		Late marriage and late childbirth shall be encouraged.
		If the proposed marriage is found to conform with the provisions of this Law, the couple shall be allowed to register and issued marriage certificates.
	www.novexcn.com /marriage_law.html (856 words)

	Earlier Chinese (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Chinese were seen as a moral, social, religious, health and economic threat, and therefore had to be kept out of New Zealand at all costs.
		Chinese immigration was seen to be a continuing problem and it was decided to undertake a review of policy in an attempt to solve it.
		This was designed to prevent Chinese using their family as unpaid labour as well as having a number of Chinese form a co-operative and run the business as a partnership.
	www.stevenyoung.co.nz /chinesevoice/ChinConf/S5.html (15622 words)

	chinese marriage practices - China History Forum, chinese history forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It's one of the aspects of Chinese culture that the Vietnamese didn't adopt, because they have a smaller population and so many Nguyens that they can't afford to be hung-up on surnames.
		The reason why the scientist chose the chinese as their study subject was because of the relatively long history of the surname system amongst the chinese.
		The Request Letter: confirms the formal arrangement of a marriage and is sent by the groom's family to the bride's family.
	www.chinahistoryforum.com /index.php?showtopic=4099 (2836 words)

	ChineseLoveLinks.com - Chinese Dating, Chinese Singles,Chinese Personals & Chinese Women
		We have Chinese women living in all parts of China, Asia and even the USA all looking to meet single foreign or western men for dating and marriage.
		ChineseLoveLinks is a specialty Chinese dating and matchmaking site that is dedicated to bringing Chinese women, Chinese ladies and Chinese girls together with single men looking to meet their long awaited Chinese brides to make their Chinese wife.
		Chinese Dating – ChineseLoveLinks is a top class online Chinese dating service where Chinese dating is made easier with the extensive database of Chinese singles, Chinese personals and Chinese matchmaking services available at our dating site everyday.
	www.chineselovelinks.com (817 words)

	Chinese Women in Love and Marriage e-book
		The book is written by a cross-cultural relationship expert with a unique perspective on relationships between Western men and Chinese women, built on her own life experience and from 6 years of running the dating website Asian Promise.
		I had a question on how to obtain your other book written in Chinese for my girlfriend that she might also be enlightened to Western Culture as I have been to hers.
		She has painted a very real picture of Chinese women on the marriage in the past and nowadays.
	www.asianpromise.com /find-chinese-bride.htm (1238 words)

	GUS
		Many of these marriages were “matched”, often as the girl was reaching late adolescence, by a go-between who also assisted in the marital arrangements and acted as a sponsor of the marriage.
		This type of marriage was an approximation of traditional village customs --there was nothing like a Western courtship and the bride and groom saw little of one another before the wedding”.
		They conceived of marriage as a union between two individuals rather than a matter which the family decides, and thus rejected their parents’ efforts to arrange marriages for them.
	www2.hu-berlin.de /sexology/GESUND/ARCHIV/GUS/CHINESEAMERICANS.HTM (376 words)

	China Marriage, China Wedding: Travel China Guide.com
		In feudal society, a marriage would be decided not by a young couple's love, but by their parents' desires.
		Essential to the marriage process were the commonly recognized 'three Letters and six etiquettes'.
		The three letters were the betrothal letter, the gift letter with a gifts list and the wedding letter used on the day the bridegroom met his bride at her home.
	www.travelchinaguide.com /intro/social_customs/marriage (963 words)

	Correspondence with the Chinese Advisory Board, 1954-1959
		Marriages have been contracted by what are said to be our customs, and legal disputes have all quoted the "Six widows case" which decided a question of inheritance but not what constituted a valid Chinese marriage.
		In the interest of the women, it would be preferable that mistresses or concubines should be protected as secondary wives and not to be left or deserted after their first bloom of youth and be thrown into the streets.
		The Civil Marriage Ordinance affords ample protection for any woman in a non Christian marriage to prevent her husband from contracting a subsequent secondary marriage or marriages.
	www.postcolonialweb.org /singapore/gender/scw/lee1954a.html (707 words)

	Chinese Marriage
		It was possible that the youngest concubine would be a teenager while the husband could be an ancient old man. Poor families sold their young daughters to rich families just because they could get some money from the rich family and also get rid of a useless female in the family.
		It was also common that sometimes an arranged marriage could be organized even before the child was born as long as parents from both families agreed.
		A formal Chinese wedding requires the bridegroom to pick up the bride at the bride's home after respectfully greeted the parents-in-law to be.
	www.158918.com /chinese-marriage.asp (813 words)

	Chinese marriage customs (printable version)
		The pronunciation of the Chinese character nine is similar to the character for longevity.
		The marriage was an effort to secure political and economic ties.
		They and other Chinese men who came about that time married local Malay women and their descendants are called Baba Nyonya.
	www.rgj.com /news/printstory.php?id=104266 (239 words)

	Love and money reshape family in China \| csmonitor.com
		Today, urban Chinese are free as never before to pursue what have become the twin engines of family dynamics here: love and money.
		Yet if it is easier to tie the knot in urban China, little else about marriage and family is so simple in a country constantly rebuilding, protean, where the pursuit of wealth and the sense of time are accelerating.
		Marriages were arranged among families or inside "work units;" a main criterion was the communist or "revolutionary" credentials of the spouse's family.
	www.csmonitor.com /2004/1215/p01s04-woap.html?s=spworld (2517 words)

	Chinese Marriage - China History Forum, chinese history forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The traditional Chinese wedding costume was mostly red and fl (including the red bridal veil which was only lifted on the wedding night).
		It really depends on the custom and type of wedding that you want to..many of my friends who are christians got married in the church..and their dinner is really simple..of course those who wants to pay more can have a larger wedding banquet.
		For the chinese traditional wedding, the tea ceremony is a commonly practised custom during the chinese wedding.
	www.chinahistoryforum.com /index.php?showtopic=590 (1810 words)

	Chinese Marriage Custom
		Chinese marriage was systemized into custom during the Warring States period (402-221 B.C.).
		Birthday matching: If the potential bride's parents do not object the marriage, the matchmaker will ask for the girl's birthday record for the time at which she was born.
		Once there is any conflict that indicates that the marriage will bring disasters to the male or female's family, the proposed marriage stops.
	www.china-guide.de /english/custom/marriage_custom.html (1528 words)

	Chinese Marriage Traditions and Chinese Wedding Customs
		Unlike Western tradition, the color red dominates traditional Chinese weddings.
		Chinese people tend to use or wear red to add a joyful atmosphere of such a festive occasion.
		At dawn on the wedding day and after a bath in water permeated with grapefruit, the bride puts on new clothes, wears a pair of red shoes and waits for the so-called "good luck woman" to dress her hair in the style of a married woman.
	www.travelchinaguide.com /intro/social_customs/marriage/day_wed1.htm (369 words)

	Chinese Wife - Marriage to a Chinese Woman.
		Chinese women have few if any of the Western cultural problems, after all, they are Chinese.
		Chinese women are not perfect, but they do make better life partners for Western men than 90% of Western women.
		Chinese women like to please their men, and every Chinese woman loves it when her man thinks of her.
	www.chineselifepartner.com (296 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| China makes marriage easier
		Couples will only need to show their ID cards and residency papers, and to sign a document stating they are not married or related, state media said.
		Previously the marriage documents were red, the traditional Chinese symbol of happiness, and the divorce books were green, a colour which also has a cultural resonance.
		However, he says that amid falling numbers of Chinese tying the knot, state media have felt the need to reassure the more traditional minded that "more convenient marriage doesn't mean more casual marriage".
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/3166419.stm (316 words)

	Chinese Marriage Customs
		Chinese marriage was systemized into custom in the Warring States period (402-221 B.C.).
		While the Wedding Letter refers to the document which will be prepared and presented to the bride's family on the day of the wedding to confirm and commemorate the formal acceptance of the bride into the bridegroom's family.
		At dawn on the wedding day, after a bath in water infused with various grapefruits, the bride puts on new clothes and wares a pair of red shoes, waiting for the so called good luck woman to dress her hair in the style of a married woman.
	www.beijingtrip.com /feature/sedan.htm (1500 words)

	Chinese Marriage Customs and Chinese Wedding Traditions
		Marriage was solemnized with lots of interesting customs performed to this day.
		The wedding ceremony was supposed to be the highlight of the whole marriage.
		The bride was regarded in a high position and was the center of attention, but was expected to be obedient in her new family after the wedding day.
	www.warriortours.com /intro/marriage.htm (268 words)

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		The Marriage of Sung Imperial Clanswomen,~ in Marriage and Inequality in Chinese Society, ed.
		Overmyer, Daniel L. Women in Chinese Religions: Submission, Struggle, Transcendence, in From Benares to Beijing: Essays on Buddhism and Chinese Religions in Honour of Professor Jan Yn-hua (Oakville, Ont.: Mosaic Press), 91-120.
		"Marriage of the Ruling Elite in the Spring and Autumn Period," in Marriage and Inequality in Chinese Society, ed.
	www.h-net.org /~asia/bibs/bibebrey.html (2946 words)

	Marriage and Compatibilty by Chinese Calendar Online
		Many Chinese Astrology websites give people the marriage advice by using Year's Branch Fighting Relationship on the left.
		They say that a person was born in the year of Rat (1) should avoid to try on the opposite sex who was born on the year of Horse (7).
		If the Chinese Astrology is too complicate, try the easy way for compatibility using western horoscope.
	www.chineseastrologyonline.com /marriage.htm (594 words)

	Wanted:Cindy Sui, Lover to Add Zip to Chinese Marriage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The ancient Chinese custom of concubinage, abolished by the strait-laced attitude of Mao Zedong's Communist rule after the 1949 revolution, has been revived by well-to-do men who keep mistresses.
		But unlike their counterparts in the West, many Chinese who feel trapped in unhappy marriages do not get a divorce and begin a new life.
		Although her son is grown and living in another city, she said she cannot divorce her husband because she does not want to put her son through the shock, risk ruining her husband's business or face gossip from her colleagues.
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/55/356.html (1116 words)

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