Normal and Abnormal Behavior in Chinese Culture

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiii

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2. Historical and Cultural Background of Beliefs and Norms Governing Behavior

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-5

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   2. Selfhood and Authority in Neo-Confucian Political Culture

      • Thomas A. Metzger

      Pages 7-27

   3. Suicide and the Family in Pre-modern Chinese Society

      • Andrew C. K. Hsieh, Jonathan D. Spence

      Pages 29-47

   4. Normal and Deviant Drinking in Rural Taiwan

      • Stevan Harrell

      Pages 49-59

   5. In the Presence of Authority: Hierarchical Roles in Chinese Spirit Medium Cults

      • Gary Seaman

      Pages 61-74

   6. Insanity in Imperial China: A Legal Case Study

      • Martha Li Chiu

      Pages 75-94

   7. Traditional Chinese Medical Beliefs and Their Relevance for Mental Illness and Psychiatry

      • Keh-Ming Lin

      Pages 95-111

3. Child Development and Childhood Psychopathology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-116

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   2. Conformity and Deviance Regarding Moral Rules in Chinese Society: A Socialization Perspective

      • Richard W. Wilson

      Pages 117-136

   3. Childhood Psychopathology: A Dialogue with Special Reference to Chinese and American Cultures

      • David Yau-Fai Ho

      Pages 137-155

   4. Sex Difference in School Adjustment in Taiwan

      • Wei-Tsuen Soong, Ko-Ping Soong

      Pages 157-165

4. Family Studies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-170

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   2. Deviant Marriage Patterns in Chinese Society

      • James McGough

      Pages 171-201

   3. Family and Community in the People’s Republic

      • William L. Parish

      Pages 203-212

   4. The Effect of Family Pathology on Taipei’s Juvenile Delinquents

      • Hsien Rin

      Pages 213-229

5. Psychiatric Studies: Epidemiological and Clinical

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 231-235

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   2. Overview of Mental Disorders in Chinese Cultures: Review of Epidemiological and Clinical Studies

      • Keh-Ming Lin, Arthur Kleinman, Tsung-Yi Lin

      Pages 237-272

   3. Sex Roles, Social Status, and Psychiatric Symptoms in Urban Hong Kong

      • Rance P. L. Lee

      Pages 273-289

   4. Mental Health Status of Chinese in the United States

      • Mavis Tsai, L. Neal Teng, Stanley Sue

      Pages 291-310

Our purpose in assembling the papers in this collection is to introduce readers to studies of normal and abnormal behavior in Chinese culture. We want to offer a sense o/what psychiatrists and social scientists are doing to advance our under­ standing of this subject, including what fmdings are being made, what questions researched, what conundrums worried over. Since our fund of knowledge is obviously incomplete, we want our readers to be aware of the limits to what we know and to our acquisition of new knowledge. Although the subject is too vast and uncharted to support a comprehensive synthesis, in a few areas - e. g. , psychiatric epidemiology - enough is known for us to be able to present major reviews. The chapters themselves cover a variety of themes that we regard as both intrinsically interesting and deserving of more systematic evaluation. Many of the issues they address we believe to be valid concerns for comparative cross­ cultural studies. No attempt is made to artificially integrate these chapters, since the editors wish to highlight their distinctive interpretive frameworks as evidence of the rich variety of approaches that scholars take to this subject. 'We see this volume as a modest and self-consciously limited exploration. Here are some accounts and interpretations (but by no means all) of normal and ab­ normal behavior in the context of Chinese culture that we believe fashion a more discriminating understanding of at least a few important aspects of that subject.

• Syndrom
• marriage
• neurosis
• pathology
• psychiatry
• suicide
• syndromes

• Division of Cross-Cultural Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Department of Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

  Arthur Kleinman

• Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

  Tsung-Yi Lin

• Departments of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Tokyo, Japan

  Tsung-Yi Lin

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