Promiscuous Husbands and Loyal Wives: The Moral Order Among Hong Kong Chinese. East-West Center Working Papers, Population Series No. 108-10

摘要

Marital disputes, extramarital affairs and sexual adventures are becoming increasingly visible in Hong Kong in the last decade. Journalistic reports and marriage counseling case records carry many examples. A most illustrative example is the much-publicized family tragedy of Mr. Chan Kin-hong in 1998. Mr. Chan had a mistress in Shenzhen, a town in mainland China just across the border. Her wife in Hong Kong was disappointed, frustrated and furious. She threw their two sons to death from a tall building and then jumped down herself to her death. Mr. Chan behaved bizarrely in front of the press; he expressed no remorse, took no care of the deaths, went to Shenzhen to find his mistress, failing to find her spent the night with two girls he picked up in a karaoke cluball in front of the press. His behaviour caused a public furor. Some local commentators consider that these events amount to a moral anomie.