| Author | Rawski, Evelyn SakakidaWatson, James L.Joint Committee on Chinese Studies (U.S.) |
| Place | Berkeley |
| Publisher | University of California Press |
| Collection | Ricci Institute Library |
| Language | English |
| Type | Book (Proceedings) |
| Series | Studies on China ; 8 |
| Shelf | Reading Room |
| Call Number | GT3283.D43 1988 |
| Description | xv, 334 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Note | Edited 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. |
| ISBN | 0520071298 |
| LCCN | 87-5982 |
