Governing Death, Making Persons : : The New Chinese Way of Death / / Huwy-min Lucia Liu.
Governing Death, Making Persons tells the story of how economic reforms and changes in the management of death, in China, affected the governance of persons. The Chinese Communist Party has sought to channel the funeral industry and death rituals into vehicles for reshaping people into "modern&...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
Year of Publication: | 2023 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (270 p.) :; 2 diagrams, 1 chart |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Note on Anonymity and Transliteration -- INTRODUCTION -- Part 1 THE FUNERAL INDUSTRY AND THE MAKING OF MARKET SUBJECTS -- 1. Civil Governance -- 2. Market Governance -- 3. The Fragile Middle -- Part 2 DEATH RITUAL AND PLURALIST SUBJECTIVITY -- 4. Individualism, Interrupted -- 5. Dying Socialist in “Capitalist” Shanghai -- 6. Dying Religious in a Socialist Ritual -- 7. Pluralism, Interrupted -- CONCLUSION -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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Summary: | Governing Death, Making Persons tells the story of how economic reforms and changes in the management of death, in China, affected the governance of persons. The Chinese Communist Party has sought to channel the funeral industry and death rituals into vehicles for reshaping people into "modern" citizens and subjects. Since the Reform and Opening period and the marketization of state funeral parlors, the Party has promoted personalized funerals in the hope of promoting a market-oriented and individualistic ethos. However, things did not go as planned.Huwy-min Lucia Liu writes about funerals she witnessed and the life stories of two kinds of funeral workers: state workers who are quasi-government officials and semi-legal private funeral brokers. She shows that end-of-life commemoration in urban China today is characterized by the resilience of social conventions and not a shift toward market economy individualization. Rather than seeing a rise of individualism and the decline of a socialist self, Liu sees the durability of socialist, religious, communal, and relational ideas of self, woven together through creative ritual framings in spite of their contradictions. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781501767234 9783110751833 9783111319292 9783111318912 9783111319261 9783111318806 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9781501767234?locatt=mode:legacy |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Huwy-min Lucia Liu. |