Chinese women and suicide
"In the West we ask of a suicide 'Why?'. In China the question is more commonly, 'Who? Who drove her to this? Who is responsible?'... For a woman it is the most damning public accusation she can make of her mother-in-law, her husband, or her son"
Margery Wolf, "Women and Suicide in China", 1975.
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