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Life in Shadows for Mentally Ill in China, With Violent Flares

The New York Times revisits the case of an assailant who attacked school children with a cleaver and was a suspected schizophrenic to look at the state of mental health care in China: It has been nearly 35 years since the end of the Cultural Revolution, when mental illness was declared a bourgeois self-delusion and the sick were treated with readings from Chairman Mao. Psychiatric treatment has re