Funeral of Mr. Wang life, death, and ghosts in urbanizing China
"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 picked up drastically in the past decades, has involved the creation of cemeteries...
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- The funeral of Mr. Wang
- Of transitions and transformations
- Of space and place : Separation and distinction in the homes of the dead
- Of strangers and kin : moral family and ghastly strangers in urban sociality
- Of gifts and commodities : Spending on the dead while providing for the living
- Of rules and regulations : governing mourning
- Of souls and spirits : secularization and its limits
- Of dreams and memories : a ghost story from a land where haunting is banned
- Epilogue.
