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Scythe and the city: a social history of death in Shanghai

By Christian , Henriot

Book information

Publisher
Stanford University Press
Year
2017
ISBN
9780804797467, 9780804798747, 0804798745
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
16 MB (16496250 bytes)
Pages
illustrations (black and white), maps (black and w
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Death--Social aspects;Death--Social aspects--China

Description

The issue of death has loomed large in Chinese cities in the modern era. Throughout the Republican period, Shanghai swallowed up lives by the thousands. Exposed bodies strewn around in public spaces were a threat to social order as well as to public health. In a place where every group had its own beliefs and set of death and funeral practices, how did they adapt to a modern, urbanised environment? How did the interactions of social organisations and state authorities manage these new ways of thinking and acting? Christian Henriot's pioneering and original study of Shanghai between 1865 and 1965 gives new insights into this crucial aspect of modern society in a global commercial hub and guides readers through this tumultuous era that radically redefined the Chinese relationship with death.

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