Chinese men more romantic

Are Chinese men more romantic than Chinese women and, in general, the Chinese more idealistic than the Americans?

Based on two empirical investigation in American and Chinese college/university students, a study finds that in the North American sample (n=693), men, as compared to women, were more willing to marry without love, were more ludic and agapic but less erotic and pragmatic in their love styles, and were less likely to view emotional satisfaction as important to the maintenance of marriage. Whereas the Chinese sample (n=735) shows that Chinese men were more romantic and storgic than Chinese women, but less likely to believe in destiny or fate concerning love. Chinese men were also more likely than Chinese women to view physical pleasure as important for maintaining marriage. In general, the Chinese had both a more idealistic and a more practical approach to love than the Americans.

Source: Susan Sprecher and Maura Toro-Morn's "A Study of Men and Women from Different Sides of Earth to Determine if Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus in their Beliefs about Love and Romantic Relationships," Sex Roles, Vol. 46, No. 5/6, Mar 2002, pp. 131-47.

Other readings at the same time:

Robert H. Frank, Thomas Gilovich, and Dennis T. Regan's "Does Studying Economics Inhibit Cooperation?" Journal of Economic Perspective, Vol. 7, No. 2, Spring 1993, pp. 159-71. exposure to the self-interest model, which is commonly used in economics, does in fact encourage self-interested behaviour.

David Stack's "The Death of John Stuart Mill," The Historical Journal, Vol. 54, No. 1, 2011, pp. 167-90. Stack surveys the fiercely contested posthumous assessments of JSM in the newspaper and periodical press, in the months following his death in May 1873, and elicits the broader intellectual context.