...Steven Heine Abstract A distinctive feature of japanese society is its apparent eagerness to embrace various forms of voluntary death or suicide as legitimate, even positive, behavior with a potentially redemptive value. These forms include the samurai's ritualistic disembowelment ( seppuku...

...Ann P. McCauley Trance and Possession in Bali: A Window on Western Multiple Personality, Possession Disorder, and Suicide . By Luh Ketut Suryani and Gordon D. Jensen . Kuala Lumpur : Oxford University Press , 1993 . xvi, 264 pp. $39.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Robert N. Kearney; Barbara D. Miller Abstract The suicide rate in Sri Lanka tripled between 1955 and 1974, soaring from 6.9 to 22.1 per 100,000 population. Sharp increases were recorded for both sexes, most age groups, and all of the nation's twenty-two districts. The incidence of suicide...

...Marilyn B. Young The Suicide of an Elite: American Internationalists and Vietnam . By Patrick Lloyd Hatcher . Stanford: Stanford University Press , 1990 . 429 pp. $35.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990 996 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES in citations...

... University The Thorn in the Chrysanthemum: Suicide and Economic Success in Modern Japan. By MAMORU IGA. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1986. xiv, 231 pp. $19-95. Americans viewing Japanese education, influenced by the competitive mood prevailing today, often correlate the high test...

... explanation of the historical and historiographical context necessary for understanding the case. This research also sheds light on some of the constitutive issues in today's China, such as rule of or by law, and the social and political roles of the private sector. The Suicide of Miss Xi: Democracy...

...Mark J. Ravina Abstract According to standard reference works, the Meiji leader Saigō Takamori committed ritual suicide in 1877. A close reading of primary sources, however, reveals that Saigō could not have killed himself as commonly described; instead, he was crippled by a bullet wound...

... of Suicide .” Nannü 3 1 : 22 – 46 . Chan Ching-Kiu Stephen . 1993 . “The Language of Despair: Ideological Representations of the ‘New Woman’ by May Fourth Writers.“ In Gender Politics in Modern China: Writing and Feminism , ed. Barlow Tani E. . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press...

...Jeanne Marecek In Pursuit of the Good Life: Aspiration and Suicide in Globalizing South India . By Jocelyn Lim Chua . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2014 . xiii, 240 pp. ISBN: 9780520281165 (paper, also available as e-book). Copyright © The Association...

... predicament of democratic agonism that is best illustrated by the story of Feng Xiawei, a grassroots activist whose suicide in Shanghai constituted a key moment in the boycott. Juxtaposing a variety of accounts about Feng's death in journalism, political fiction, reformed opera, and advertisements...

...Seiji M. Lippit Abstract Akutagawa Ryūnosuke's suicide in July 1927, coming little more than half a year after the beginning of the Shōwa period, seemed to many at the time to signify the end of an era. A number of writers and critics, for example, interpreted his death as marking the defeat...

... linked in the novel's fifth chapter with the choices she has faced in the seven years since the end of the Second World War: suicide, flight, or the writing of a “good work of literature.” Throughout the novel Oda dismisses suicide as not in her nature; Ota, in her essay “Ikinokori no shinri...

..., and they too quickly disappeared from the bookstores (Phan Cự Dệ 1974:21). Girls disappointed in love succumbed to the influence of the work and committed suicide by jumping into Lake Tây or Lake Trùe Bạch. The work provoked a debate concerning what was proper reading for young women that continued...

... most often from Thai colleagues? His answer was: 1) Was the execution of the king in 1782 by the founder of the current dynasty legitimate? If not, why did he do it? 2) Was the death of another king in 1946 an accident, a suicide, or an assassination, and if it was the last one, who did it? Thank...

... . Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1988. xvi, 172 pp. $36.00 (paper). In this intriguingly titled book T'ien Ju-k'ang attempts to document and explain the rising incidence and commemoration of widow chastity and suicide in the Ming and Ch'ing dynasties. After describing the gradual increase in official rewards...

...). In this intriguingly titled book T'ien Ju-k'ang attempts to document and explain the rising incidence and commemoration of widow chastity and suicide in the Ming and Ch'ing dynasties. After describing the gradual increase in official rewards for female marital fidelity during the Ming period, T'ien sensibly suggests...

... are based largely on Merton's Social Structure and Anomie, and the frustration-aggression hypothesis. Suicidal and homicidal responses are a function of frustration specifically, "status deprivation." This hypothesis, derived from Henry and Short, states that high homicide and suicide rates are 254 JOURNAL...

... their jurisdictions so as to discourage impulsive widow suicides and encourage instead lifelong widow chastity. He and many others worried that the increasing widow suicides resulted from valuing the conjugal bond of husband and wife over and against the power and authority of the patrilineal family. The Yongzheng...

... suicide to join their “husbands” in death. Lu challenges the assumptions of many modern Chinese scholars who saw faithful maidens as unwitting victims of oppressive Confucian ideology. Instead, she argues that faithful maidens were active agents of their own fate, using Confucian ideals to assert...