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The Funeral of Mr. Wang

Author

Kipnis, Andrew B.

Year

2021

Publisher

University of California Press

Type

BOOK

Category

Social Science

Language

English

Pages

191

ISBN

978-0-52038-199-5

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09-Sep-2024

Keywords

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural;SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies;SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying;SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban

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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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