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Scythe and the City: A Social History of Death in Shanghai

Scythe and the City: A Social History of Death in Shanghai

Henriot, Christian

Hardcover

Chinese HistoryDeath & DyingGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0804797463
ISBN13: 9780804797467
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: May 18 2016
Pages: 496
Weight: 1.70
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

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?

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