After reading, “Alive” I felt confused. He loses his family and gains a new one. He seems to have bonded with his new wife and her son and he wants to have a baby with her. Then when he regains his memory, he leaves to go back to his old life. He devastated two families.
In “Broken” we see how sexual activity is monitored and not a private matter. We see suicide and a man scared for his political position. Here in America suicide and political scandal is not foreign.
The Bridegroom talks about homosexuality and remaining faithful to your husband. We can deduct that China is against homosexuality and wants women to stay with their husband even if they are unfaithful.
After reading these stories I personally think that women are thought to be pure because we see that women get more in trouble for being sexually active and unfaithful then men. We also see that the Chinese is against homosexuality, while the US is more accepting.
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Do be careful about generalizing. The story “The Bridegroom” is set a few decades ago, and at the same time in the United States one could find similar views expressed. If one compares the present day views in both countries, things might theoretically be different, although I’m not sure that we could gather that information, since the public in China is not regularly surveyed regarding their views, and in a totalitarian context one cannot feel free to be honest (not that people are always honest when they fill in surveys here in the United States, either!)