The postmodern view of love: The conflicts and possibilities of human intimacy in H.K.

Date:	28-9-2018 (Fri)
Time:	12:45 – 2:00 p.m.
Venue:	B4-LP-06, EdUHK Tai Po Campus
Speaker:	Dr Lung Ching Leung (EdD.,  Durham University,  Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Special Education and Counselling, The Education University of Hong Kong )
Extract：	The meeting of Chinese and Western traditions in Hong Kong creates unique tensions in intimate interpersonal relationships. The diversified sex and gender roles together with the process of socialization make people feel confused in the relationship between the two sexes. The speaker compared the different understandings of intimate interpersonal relationships between modern and postmodern societies, pointed out the current causes of social loneliness of Hong Kong people, and explained the four stages of the Process Model of Intimate Relationship. Recommendations were then made, namely, learning of more effective communication skills from the opposite sex. Through ACT: adjustment (A), communication (C) and tolerance (T), we can deal with difference (D1), disagreement (D2) and difficulties (D3) between men and women, hence building up intimate relationship.