Conjugal Relationships in Chinese Culture

Lau, Chi Sum Garfield obtained her Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from Hong Kong Baptist University. She is Assistant Professor in Hong Kong Metropolitan University. She is responsible for courses in English Language and Literature at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Her areas of interest include modernism, psychoanalytic criticism, and comparative studies. Chan, Kar Yue Kelly completed her undergraduate degree and her master's degree both in the discipline of Translation and Interpretation at the City University of Hong Kong. She then finished her Ph.D. in Classical Chinese Literature at the University of Edinburgh, UK. She is currently Associate Professor in language and translation at Hong Kong Metropolitan University, teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses on culture and translation, and literary translation. Her research interests include literary translation, women's studies in classical Chinese society, classical Chinese literature (poetry), and translation of Cantonese opera.

• Part I: Revolutionary Alternatives of Conjugal Relationships in Chinese Culture.- Chapter 1: Divorce and Remarriage as Revealed in Cantonese Opera: The Phoenix Hairpin and The Return of Lady Wenji .- Chapter 2: A Preliminary Note on the Ancient Sages’ “Unmarried” Mothers and the Acceleration of Virtuous Power.- Chapter 3: Creating Romance or Divorce: Marriage Reform in Early 20th Century Chinese Print Media.- Chapter 4: ‘Free Love’ and ‘Free Marriage’: An American Female Missionary’s Prescription and Chinese Writers’ Imagination in the Late 1920s.- Chapter 5: Marriage in Migration and Homecoming: Joseph Conrad’s “Amy Foster” and Ha Jin’s “The Woman from New York”.- Part II: Reassessment of Contemporary Nuptial Discourse in Various Forms.- Chapter 6: Linguacultural Representation of the Cultural Self and Other in Chinese Women’s Discourse on Transnational Remarriage.- Chapter 7: A Visual Interpretation of Eastern and Western Relationships on Wedding Invitation Cards.- Chapter 8: Norwegian Fortune-Teller Henning Hai Lee Yang’s I Ching: Emphasis on Marriage during the Surge in Norwegian Divorces and Cohabitation.- Chapter 9: Happily Ever After? Rethinking Marriage in Contemporary Hong Kong.