The Funeral of Mr. Wang : Life, Death, and Ghosts in Urbanizing China
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0520381971
ISBN-13
9780520381971
Publisher
University of California Press
Imprint
University of California Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 27th, 2021
Print length
190 Pages
Weight
284 grams
Dimensions
15.30 x 23.00 x 1.50 cms
Product Classification:
Urban communitiesSociology: death & dyingSocial & cultural anthropology, ethnography
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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.
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