Governing Death, Making Persons : The New Chinese Way of Death /

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"An ethnography of contemporary urban Chinese death rituals and the Shanghai funeral industry, this book describes how the Chinese Communist Party governed death, how such governance was used to construct specific ideas of persons and citizens, and how such governance has changed after the intr...

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Auteur principal: Liu, Huwy-min Lucia, 1978- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Manners and customs.
Funeral rites and ceremonies.
Death care industry > Government ownership > China.
Death care industry > Government policy > China.
Funeral rites and ceremonies > Government policy > China.
Funeral rites and ceremonies > China > Shanghai.
China > Shanghai.
China.
Shanghai (China) > Social life and customs.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé:"An ethnography of contemporary urban Chinese death rituals and the Shanghai funeral industry, this book describes how the Chinese Communist Party governed death, how such governance was used to construct specific ideas of persons and citizens, and how such governance has changed after the introduction of market economic reforms"--
Description matérielle:1 online resource (270 pages).
ISBN:9781501767234

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