Subject: Death in popular culture--China

Death ritual in late imperial and modern China
AuthorRawski, Evelyn SakakidaWatson, James L.Joint Committee on Chinese Studies (U.S.)
PlaceBerkeley
PublisherUniversity of California Press
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook (Proceedings)
SeriesStudies on China ; 8
ShelfReading Room
Call NumberGT3283.D43 1988
Descriptionxv, 334 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
NoteEdited by James L. Watson, Evelyn S. Rawski.
Revised versions of papers presented at a conference held at the Sun Space Ranch Conference Center in Oracle, Ariz., Jan. 2-7, 1985 and sponsored by the Joint Committee on Chinese Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies and Social Science Research Council.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Structure of Chinese funerary rites; historian's approach; funerals in North China, death, food and fertility; funeral specialists in Cantonese society, social hierarchy; grief and grieving, laments of Hakka women, gender/ideological differences in representations of life and death; conflicting themes in Chinese popular religion; graves in Southeastern China; Ming and Qing Emperors and death ritual. Mao's remains, death in the PRC.
ISBN0520071298
LCCN87-5982