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Scythe and the City - A Social History of Death in Shanghai (Hardcover)
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Scythe and the City - A Social History of Death in Shanghai (Hardcover)
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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, urbanized
environment? How did the interactions of social organizations and
state authorities manage these new ways of thinking and acting?
Recent historiography has almost completely ignored the ways in
which death created such immense social change in China. Now,
Scythe and the City corrects this problem. Christian Henriot's
pioneering and original study of Shanghai between 1865 and 1965
offers 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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