ABSTRACT
Although suicide is in most cases a domestic affair, I do not argue that it never happens in the public sphere. In fact, if we did not make sense of suicide as a public issue, this study would be incomplete. While we now understand the dynamics of family injustice in China, we must be aware of how suicide’s meaning is changed when examined from a more general perspective. In this chapter, I examine how domestic matters can be transformed into public matters and how suicide relates to public injustice. In Chapter 11, I examine suicide-prevention programs in China and some suicide discourses in modern Chinese intellectual history.
