This book systematically presents and classifies the latest advances in suicide research in contemporary China, examines the status quo of suicides in China and analyzes the reasons for suicides among three high-risk groups, namely: rural females, teenagers, and the elderly. It reveals the deep-seated influence of traditional Chinese values and socio-cultural customs on suicide and puts forward a way to prevent suicide. This book argues that high suicide rates stem from flaws in the social fabric. Effectively reducing suicide rates and mitigating the damage done by suicide as a social disease is not only the responsibility of the state government, but also that of social, educational and medical professionals.

Jianjun Li, born in 1963, Professor of Sociology, is a PhD of History, and a Doctoral Supervisor who enjoys the special allowance of State Council. He held the post of Vice President of Guizhou University and a concurrent post of the President of Guizhou University Press, the Chief Editor of Journal of Guizhou University, as well as the deputy chairman of the fourth session of the Commission for Guizhou Federation of Social Sciences Circles. He is now the President of Anshun University, and the president of Guizhou Sociological Association. He specializes in the education and research of Sociology and History. The Research Projects of National Social Science Fund he takes in charge include The Research on Teenage Suicide from Contextual Perspective of Social Innovation and The Research on Social Culture of Suicide Behavior. He has published seven personal manuscripts in total, including The Research on Chinese Teenage Suicide (China Social Sciences Press), The Research on Social Culture of Suicide Behavior (Guizhou University Press), and Suicide Research (Social Sciences Academic Press). He has published more than 100 academic papers on Sociology Studies and he is also the Chief Editor of eight collected works.

Suicidal Behaviors Pervasively Exist with Human Beings.- Suicide Researches in China.- The Research on the Rate, Means and Space-time of Suicide in China.- The Research on Chinese Female Suicide Problem.- The Research on Chinese Teenage Suicide Problem.- The Research on Chinese Elder Suicide Problem.- The Research on Historical and Cultural factors of Suicide in China.- The Prevention of Suicidal Behaviors.