Hello,
I am a final year Chinese Studies student at the University of Sheffield, England, UK. I am currently doing a dissertation research project into Chinese-British interracial marriages, concentrating on mainland Chinese who marry British citizens.
I have written a dissertation questionnaire which is below. I would very much appreciate it if anyone in a Chinese-British/American marriage could do the questionnaire – it should only take about 15mins at the most.
Please send the completed questionnaire back to: ega00evg@sheffield.ac.uk
Thanks very much for your help!
Emma Gutteridge
QUESTIONNAIRE
Sex: M / F
Ethnicity: (Chinese, British, etc)
Age:
When you first met:
1. Were you looking for a marriage partner when you met your spouse?
2. How and where did you meet?
3. What first attracted you to your spouse?
(Looks, personality, education, economics, all of these?)
4. Why do you think your spouse was first attracted to you?
5. Who instigated the relationship, you or your partner?
6. What did you have in common / not have in common?
(Views, interests, personality traits, etc)
When you got married:
7. How long had you know your prospective spouse when you decided to get married?
8. Why did you decide to get married?
9. When did you tell your family and how worried were you about their reaction? What was their reaction?
10. How did your friends react to your relationship initially?
How did they react to your decision to get married?
11. When and where did you marry?
Was the marriage difficult or easy to organise or apply for?
12. Do you think it is easier these days to marry someone of a different nationality? Why?
Married life:
13. Where do you and your spouse live now?
14. Where do you intend to settle and live in the future?
15. What has been the reaction of people in the street towards you and your spouse (in the U.K., in China…)?
Why do you think they reacted in this way?
16. Did you expect that you would marry someone who was not of the same nationality as yourself?
17. Do you know anyone else who is in a Sino-British / Sino-European relationship or marriage?
Cultural differences:
18. Do you think married life between two people of different nationalities / cultures differs to married life between two people of the same (or your) nationality?
If so, how does it differ?
19. Are there / do you notice many other interracial couples (Chinese and British / European) in China or the U.K.?
20. Can you think of any general reasons why a Chinese person might choose to marry someone of a different nationality rather than a Chinese person?
21. Can you think of any general reasons why a British / Western person might choose to marry someone of a different nationality rather than a British / Western person?
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