Analysis on the Differences between Chinese and Western Marriage Culture in the Film The Wedding Banquet

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10.2991/assehr.k.211120.017How to use a DOI?

Keywords

The Wedding Banquet; marriage culture; China and the west; differences

Abstract

The Wedding Banquet is a movie directed by Ang Lee and released in the United States in 1993. The film tells a series of absurd stories from the wedding of Wai-tung, a gay man. The movie shows the two generations’ absolute different attitudes towards marriage issues, vividly demonstrates the different marriage cultures in China and the west, and creates a strong contrast. This paper takes the content of the movie into account, and specifically explains the differences between Chinese and western marriage culture from three aspects: wedding ceremony, purpose of marriage and attitude toward same-sex marriage, and analyzes the reasons for the differences from the level of different cultural backgrounds in China and the west.

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© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yiting Wang
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/11/29
TI  - Analysis on the Differences between Chinese and Western Marriage Culture in the Film The Wedding Banquet
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 3rd International Conference on Literature, Art and Human Development (ICLAHD 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 88
EP  - 91
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211120.017
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211120.017
ID  - Wang2021
ER  -