An Analysis of Suicide in the Chinese and English Cultural Contexts in the Early Modern Period
September 15, 2020 09:28 Source: Social Sciences in China Press Author: zhao xiurong

zhao xiurong

SCHOOL of History, renmin university of China

  Bet365 app download In Early Modern English and EUROPEAN CULTURE, Suicide was both a sin and a crime. Suicide was conDemned Both By Relige and CIVIL LAW. Property will be confiscated, And his/her family friend be humiliated. In China at the aame time, Suicide was neither a sin nor a crime; the body of a suicide was never subject to any of abuse. Until the 17th Century, The TERM for "Suicide" in English was "Selfmurder." The Terms for "Suicide" in Chinese Convey the Manner of Death, But never suggest the IDEA of "Murder,"And there are many terms in Chinese that start with" xùn "(Meaning" SACRIFIICE One ’s Life For ..."). miLAR Reasons for Committing Suicide (for Love, Illness, DEBTS and Humiliation), TheRe Were Forms of Suicide that Peculiar to Chinese Culture. These Included Suicide to Achieve Merforment; Suicide to RemonStrate or A dmonish; and Suicide as a Way of Redressing A Wrong. In the Early Modern Period, ENGLISH People Beliefed that the right of ownership of life resided solely with god; no one had right to take their own life. By Contrast, The Chinese Were Primarily Concess with WHETHER SOMEHAD CAUSED The Suicide and WHETHER it had committed for a reason. Chinese and English Culture, NOTIONS of the "Self" are different, And the way Suicide is understood in Chinese Culture is different from the way it is confided in English Culture. FFERENCES BETWEEN Confucianism, Buddhism, And Taoism on the One Hand and Christianity On the Other. SUICIDE As RightEous; English Society Focuses on the Absence of a Right to Commit Suicide and Condemns Suicide No Matter What ites motivation might be.

  Keywords: Suicide, Culture, china, English

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