Sociological and psychiatric studies on suicide based on Western
ideas about human nature see suicide as social or individual
disorder. Suicide in China, however, should be understood
differently. By analyzing 30 cases, Wu Fei studies the dynamics of
suicide in terms of family politics and local psychology and finds
that suicide is committed when a power balance is broken in the
games of power in the family. Unlike public injustice, domestic
injustice is not only closely related to, but also often
strengthened by emotional interdependence. Suicide and depression
are different responses to the same situation of domestic
injustice. The book also covers suicide as perceived by rural
people outside the family; how suicide is viewed in politics;
suicide prevention and studies of suicide in Chinese modern
intellectual history. Showing that suicide in China is not mainly
caused by too traditional values, but reflects a dilemma in Chinese
modernity, this book should be of interest to students and scholars
in Chinese studies; sociology; anthropology and suicide studies.
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