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The Funeral of Mr. Wang - Life, Death, and Ghosts in Urbanizing China (Paperback)
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The Funeral of Mr. Wang - Life, Death, and Ghosts in Urbanizing China (Paperback)
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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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