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The Funeral of Mr. Wang: Life, Death, and Ghosts in Urbanizing China

By Andrew B. Kipnis

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2021
ISBN
9780520381995
DOI
10.1515/9780520381995
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5297904 bytes)
Pages
190\187
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-21 19:07:45

Description

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. In rural China funerals are conducted locally, on village land by village elders. But in urban areas, people have neither land for burials nor elder relatives to conduct funerals. Chinese urbanization, which has picked up drastically in the past decades, has involved the creation of cemeteries, state-run funeral homes, and small private funerary businesses. The Funeral of Mr. Wang examines social change in urbanizing China through the lens of funerals, the funerary industry, and practices of memorialization. It analyzes changes in family life, patterns of urban sociality, transformations in economic relations, the politics of memorialization, and the echoes of these changes in beliefs about the dead and ghosts.

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