Forgotten People - The State of Chinese Psychiatric Wards
Lu Nan
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In 1989 and 1990, Lu Nan traveled through ten provinces in China and saw 14 000 mental patients in 38 hospitals. He visited the homes of more than 100 people with mental disorders and met others who were homeless.
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At the time, more than ten million people in China were suffering from severe psychiatric disorders – abandoned and forgotten, their families being of the poorest in the country, heavily in debt or bankrupt, and their plight unknown to the general public. This is the story of how the mentally ill survive, with their families, or alone, living in the streets.
