Abstract
Gossip Girl and My Youth Who Call The Shots are two popular TV plays in America and China. The former, based on a series of novels written for teenagers by Cecily von Ziegesar, reflects American young people’s campus life and their love stories; the latter talks about the lives of three Chinese young cousins who have all made transition from youth to adulthood and go in search of freedom, personality and their aspirations. The aim of this paper is to analyze the similarities and differences of American and Chinese young people’s views on marriage and love by contrasting these two TV plays.
This paper compares American view on marriage and love with that of Chinese in these TV plays from the perspective of sociology. Not many research achievements have been made in China and abroad in this field of contrasting different views on marriage and love of American and Chinese young people. Furthermore, no research has been conducted about analysis on similarities and differences of American and Chinese young people’s views on marriage and love from Gossip Girl and My Youth Who Call The Shots. This paper will offer some useful materials and references to the research field of social culture.
Keywords   American   Chinese   marriage   love 

“绯闻女孩”和“我的青春谁做主”是中美两国时下热播的两部青春偶像剧。前者是根据美国作家Cecily同名畅销小说《绯闻少女》制作的一部青春偶像剧，反映美国年轻人的校园生活和爱情故事；后者讲述中国三对年轻情侣从青春期过渡到成年，追寻他们的自由、个性和理想。本文通过对比这两部电视剧分析中美青年在婚姻爱情观方面的异同。
本文从中美社会文化角度对比这两部作品所体现的婚姻爱情观。对通过美
剧与中国的青春偶像剧来分析对比中美青年婚姻爱情观的异同，国内外在这一
领域的研究还很缺乏。而对于这两部电视剧的对比研究在国内外研究领域还是
空白。本文将能够为社会文化学领域增加一些具有参考价值的研究材料。
关键词   美国人   中国人   婚姻   爱情      

1 Introduction
Gossip Girl and My Youth Who Call The Shots are two popular TV plays in America and China. Gossip Girl is based on a series of novels written for teenagers by Cecily von Ziegesar. It reflects American young people’s campus life and their love stories. My Youth Who Call The Shots talks about the lives of three Chinese young cousins who have all made transition from youth to adulthood and go in search of freedom, personality and their aspirations. The two TV plays represent the development of two countries’ youth idol drama. They are enjoyed by audience both old and young all over the world. The aim of this paper is to analyze the similarities and differences of Sino-US young people’s views on marriage and love by contrasting these two TV plays.