Abstract:Marriage relationship is described as the most closed and the longest interpersonal relationships in the history. Comparatively speaking, American Society pay attention to the importance of freedom and human rights, while China with a history of thousands of years is more conservative which lead to the different Sino-US women’s marriage views. Based on the theory of cross-cultural communication, this paper analyses the different marriage concepts between Chinese and American women from people’s values, religious beliefs, social economic and political systems, and explores the different reasons for the formation of the concept，hoping to offer some suggestions to cross-cultural communication.

Key words: cross-cultural, modern women, marriage view, Sino-US

CONTENTS

Abstract

中文摘要

1. Introduction1

2. Literature Review..1

  2.1 Marriage Views

  2.2 Cross-Cultural Communication

3. Differences between Chinese and American modern women’s attitude towards marriage..2

3.1 Purpose of getting married 

3.1.1 Purpose of getting married in China

3.1.2 Purpose of getting married in American 

3.2 Selecting a spouse 

3.2.1 How Chinese modern women select a spouse

3.2.2 How American modern women select a spouse

3.3 importance of wife’s role in the relationship in marriage

3.3.1 Wife’s role in the Chinese husband-wife relationship

3.3.2 Wife’s role in the American husband-wife relationship

4. Factors contributing to the female status in the concepts of marriage between Chinese culture and American culture5

  4.1 Main factors

4.1.1 Values

4.1.2 Religion

4.1.3 History

  4.2 Differences in environment

4.2.1 Economic environment

4.2.2 Living environment

5.Conclusion....8

Bibliography.10

Acknowledgements..11