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- Title
Ling's death: an ethnography of a Chinese woman's suicide.
- Authors
Pearson, Veronica; Meng Liu; Liu, Meng
- Abstract
Over the past decade, great concern has been expressed about the high suicide rates in China, especially among women and young women in particular. However, most of the information that has been presented has considered macro-level data and speculated on why women are so vulnerable to self-harm. This article presents the detailed story of one village woman who killed herself and suggests that motives and behavior are more complex than the cultural script and statistics suggest. Although depression is said to be commonly present in people who kill themselves in Western countries, this may not be the case in China.
- Subjects
CHINA; SUICIDE; WOMEN; SUICIDE &; psychology; COMPARATIVE studies; CONFLICT (Psychology); ETHNOLOGY; ETHNOPSYCHOLOGY; RESEARCH methodology; MEDICAL cooperation; MOTIVATION (Psychology); RESEARCH; RURAL population; SOCIAL values; ETHNOLOGY research; FAMILY relations; EVALUATION research; INTIMATE partner violence
- Publication
Suicide & Life-Threatening Behavior, 2002, Vol 32, Issue 4, p347
- ISSN
0363-0234
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1521/suli.32.4.347.22338