[ **up:** [[Marriage]] ] --- # Temporary marriage ## China [[“The Utopian socialist Kang You-wei … made a strong plea for ‘love-contracts’ valid for a given period (jia-hao zhi yue).”|Utopian socialist Kang You-wei made a strong plea for 'love contracts' valid for a given period of time; not more than a year, not less than a month; and with the antiquated terms 'husband' and 'wife' to be discarded.]][^1] - *See also:* [[Trial marriage]] [^1]: Wolfram Eberhard, *[[Eberhard. 'A Dictionary of Chinese Symbols', 1986.|A Dictionary of Chinese Symbols: Hidden Symbols in Chinese Life and Thought]]* (London: Routledge, 1986), s.v. ‘sex’.