[Anthropgrad] pre-field work seminar on Monday 5th Nov.

[Ching-Yin Tien]

Hi all,

 

Ching-ying Tien is going to have her pre-field work seminar on Monday,
5th November, 3:00-4:30pm, at Milgate room, AD hope building.

 

Cross-border love triangle between Taiwan and Vietnam

 

Abstract:

There are underestimated numbers of Taiwanese businessmen and male
managerial employees working in Vietnam alone while their wives stay in
Taiwan taking care of the family. Among these men, a huge ratio gets
involved with local women as so-called "Pao erhnai (keeping mistress)."
A common explanation of this phenomenon is financial demand and supply.
Most of the men are relatively powerful on economic ability compared
with local people. Their relatively high economic ability afforded them
to not only support their families in Taiwan, but to "Pao erhnai"
locally. In such an economic basic argumentation, money plays a
significant role in the extramarital relationships, and men are
represented as performing the leading role in it. In this argumentation,
however, female identity (both the wife and the mistress) has been
slighted. Besides, money cannot alone explain why these men want to
spend money to keep a mistress. Therefore, the author would like to dig
out other factors affecting the forming and keeping of the cross-border
love triangle between Taiwan and Vietnam.

 

Best wishes,

 

Ching-ying Tien

Department of Archeology and Anthropology

Arts and Social Science school

The Australian National University

Email: ching-ying.tien at anu.edu.au <mailto:ching-ying.tien at anu.edu.au>