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The Funeral of Mr. Wang: Life, Death, and Ghosts in Urbanizing China

The Funeral of Mr. Wang: Life, Death, and Ghosts in Urbanizing China

Kipnis, Andrew B.

Paperback

AnthropologyDeath & DyingGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 0520381971
ISBN13: 9780520381971
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Jul 27 2021
Pages: 190
Weight: 0.95
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
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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