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

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&...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
VerfasserIn:
Liu, Huwy-min Lucia,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Online Access:
Physical Description:1 online resource (270 p.) :; 2 diagrams, 1 chart
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • 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

Similar Items