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Governing Death, Making Persons - The New Chinese Way of Death (Hardcover)
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Governing Death, Making Persons - The New Chinese Way of Death (Hardcover)
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Governing Death, Making Persons tells the story of how economic
reforms and changes in the management of death in China have
affected the governance of persons. The Chinese Communist Party has
sought to channel the funeral industry and death rituals into
vehicles for reshaping people into "modern" citizens and subjects.
Since the Reform and Opening period and the marketization of state
funeral parlors, the Party has promoted personalized funerals in
the hope of promoting a market-oriented and individualistic ethos.
However, things have not gone as planned. Huwy-min Lucia Liu writes
about the funerals she witnessed and the life stories of two kinds
of funeral workers: state workers who are quasi-government
officials and semilegal private funeral brokers. She shows that
end-of-life commemoration in urban China today is characterized by
the resilience of social conventions and not a shift toward market
economy individualization. Rather than seeing a rise of
individualism and the decline of a socialist self, Liu sees the
durability of socialist, religious, communal, and relational ideas
of self, woven together through creative ritual framings in spite
of their contradictions. -- Cornell University Press
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