The Funeral of Mr. Wang: Life, Death, and Ghosts in Urbanizing China by Kipnis, Andrew B.

The Funeral of Mr. Wang: Life, Death, and Ghosts in Urbanizing China (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520381971)

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The Funeral of Mr. Wang: Life, Death, and Ghosts in Urbanizing China by Kipnis, Andrew B.

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

$29.95
The Funeral of Mr. Wang: Life, Death, and Ghosts in Urbanizing China by Kipnis, Andrew B.

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

$29.95
Format: Paperback
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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.


Author: Andrew B. Kipnis
ISBN-10: 0520381971
ISBN-13: 9780520381971
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 07/27/2021
Pages: 190
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.30d
By Andrew B. Kipnis
By Andrew B. Kipnis
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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.

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