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Suicide and Justice: A Chinese Perspective: Routledge Contemporary China Series

Autor Fei Wu
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 feb 2013
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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415836845
ISBN-10: 0415836840
Pagini: 240
Ilustrații: 1 black & white tables
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Contemporary China Series

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate

Cuprins

Part I: Introduction  1. Suicide as a Chinese Problem  2. Two Philosophies about Suicide  Part II: Domestic Justice  3. Familial Love  4. Family Politics  5. Fortune  Part III: Human Dignity  6. Suicide and Madness  7. Gambling for Qi  8. Face   9. Thinking Through  Part IV: Conclusion: Suicide as a Public Affair  10. Public Justice  11. Making Good Luck

Notă biografică

Wu Fei is an Associate Professor in the Department of  Religious Studies, Peking University.

Recenzii

"This book is the most serious ethnographic study of suicide to date. Its conclusions challenge but also complement psychiatric research. It is also an important contribution to the study of what is disappearing in rural China today. A real achievement." Arthur Kleinman, Harvard University

Descriere

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.