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The Funeral of Mr. Wang

Life, Death, and Ghosts in Urbanizing China
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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.

Product Details

PublisherUniversity of California Press
Publish DateJuly 27, 2021
Pages190
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9780520381971
Dimensions9.3 X 6.4 X 1.3 inches | 0.9 pounds

About the Author

Andrew B. Kipnis is Professor of Anthropology at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, coeditor of Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, and author of From Village to City: Social Transformation in a Chinese County Seat.

Reviews

"This is a valuable resource for scholars interested in Chinese religiosity, urbanization, and politics."-- "Religious Studies Review"

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