@article{ref1,
title="Suicide in early China and the current West",
journal="Australasian psychiatry",
year="2018",
author="Pridmore, Saxby and Pridmore, William",
volume="26",
number="6",
pages="651-654",
abstract="OBJECTIVES: To characterize suicide in early China, as a means of extending knowledge of this behaviour. <br><br>METHODS: We examined Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and collated and considered relevant details. <br><br>RESULTS: In early China, loss of authority/status, loved ones and fortune were triggers for suicide. The expression of the intention to suicide, either by word or action, was observed and elicited a placating response. Less frequent, but nevertheless clearly recorded, were accounts of suicide completed to satisfy the wishes of others. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: The suicide and related behaviour of early China shares many features with late Western societies, but one form (to satisfy the wishes of others) is currently undetected.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1039-8562",
doi="10.1177/1039856218781013",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1039856218781013"
}