Event: Vietnamese Brides - Are They 'Good Girls' or 'Bad Girls'? The Cultural Boundary of 'Good Women' in Vietnam

ietnamese Brides - Are They 'Good Girls' or 'Bad Girls'? The Cultural Boundary of 'Good Women' in Vietnam

Lecture | September 27 | 12:30 p.m. | Institute of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton), 6F Conference Room | Note change in date

Speaker: Mei-Hsien Lee, National Chi Nan University (Taiwan)

Sponsor: Southeast Asia Studies, Center for

Are the Vietnamese brides who marry Taiwanese men as a way to help their families economically, “good women” or “bad women”? In Vietnam, a girl from a traditional family believes “sacrificing” her own interest in order to help her family is a something that a “good daughter” should do. However, in the eyes of the Vietnamese elites, these Vietnamese brides are “bad women” for they pursue a kind of marriage that is not based on love but rather on economics. They see this kind of cross-border marriage as a “national shame” that should be prohibited by law.

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