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Library Thinkquest. August 2005. China Style. 23 May 2008. <http://library.thinkquest.org/05aug/01780/folk-custom/chinese-marriage-custom.htm>.

The website China Style offers much information on the tradition of Chinese cultures including the old traditional marriage method. They provide in-dept details on the basic rules and principles of marriage done in the old days. Ranging from the basic principles of the three letters to the six etiquettes that are suppose to include in the process of a wedding. China Style offers the reader a glimpse of the traditional wedding style, one which is fully, but not similar to the marriages that are perform today. Compare to the wedding ceremony and process that has been performed before, the weddings today are much more simpler, they do not have to go through so much process. However, some traditions still remain, thought not much. This differs from the article called “Second Wives Club” because while this site talks about the long process of a marriage, the other article centers on the simple ness of taking a second wife. There are no processes or steps that man need to go thought in order to get a mistress.

Liu Melinda. “Second Wives Club.” Newsweek International, Student Edition, Gale.30 July 2001. 22, May 2008 <http://find.galegroup.com/itx/start.do?prodId=STOM>.

In this article called the “Second Wives Club”, it centers mainly on how the lifestyles of a mistress or concubines. A mistress or concubines, during feudal China often serve as a symbol on a men wealth, the more money or power he had the more mistresses he could have. Usually, the mistress would be kept off somewhere and every month or so the man will give the woman allowances, usually in a very large sum. It goes in detail about how sometimes desperate times for young women often leads them to prostitute themselves to earn a little extra cash. Often they want to earn a little money for clothes or for food, they will randomly go up to a man and ask if they need any company that night. This article differs than the one in China Style because instead of focusing on the dedication of a true marriage, it talks about the ways that a perfect marriage can be destroyed.