Comparative Research On Marriage Ethics Between China And America

All human social activities are begin with the family life based on marriage. The marriage ethics whichare maitaining and adjusting marital relationship have long history and abundant connotation. As one partof the the human society culture,marriage ethics not only have the same character,but also have thedifferent marital ethics because of the economic, political, cultural and even geographical conditions.Chinese and American culture are each typical representative of the Eastern and Western culture.So theirmarriage ethics both have common features and different features.Influenced by the farming civilization, the basic content of Chinese traditional marriage ethics are themaintenance of patriarchy and authority of husband. Traditional marriage ethics in the United States areinfluenced by the colonial society which has both the feudal marriage ethical characteristics and thecharacteristics of capitalism marriage ethics. Similar to the traditional marriage ethics, Chinese and UnitedStates modern marriage ethics both have common and different characteristics. After the founding of newChina, China is influenced by not only the socialist economic factors, cultural, and legal factors but alsosome feudal economic factors, the feudal culture. Therefore, the marriage ethics are primary stage ofsocialism marriage ethics. Modern marriage Ethics in the United States have been formed in the early20thcentury that has the typical characteristics of the developed capitalist stage marriage ethics.Since the reform and opening up, Chinese marriage ethics go into the new era. Affected by the marketeconomy and other factors, the Chinese and United States marriage ethics are roughly facing the sameproblem. The contract spirit is one kind of the mainstream marriage ethics in the U.S. which is reflected inChinese Marriage Law and its judicial interpretation.This kind of marital property system adapt to the newfeatures of the new era,but make the impact to the traditional Chinese marriage Ethics.