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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
0520381971, 9780520381971
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9569410 bytes)
Pages
190\191
Time added
2022-11-14 22:33:08

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 increased drastically in recent decades, involves 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.   Cover Luminos page Title page Copyright Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. The Funeral of Mr. Wang 2. Of Transitions and Transformations 3. Of Space and Place 4. Of Strangers and Kin 5. Of Gifts and Commodities 6. Of Rules and Regulations 7. Of Souls and Spirits 8. Of Dreams and Memories Epilogue Notes References Index

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