Governing death, making persons the new Chinese way of death / Huwy-min Lucia Liu.
| Author/creator | Liu, Huwy-min Lucia, 1978- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022. |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Civil Governance and the Making of Political Subjects at the End of Life -- The Making and Unmaking of Market Subjects : Market Governance, Funeral Parlors, and State Practitioners -- Fragility and Moral Ambiguity : Lives of Private Funeral Brokers under an Authoritarian Market Economy -- The Absence of Individuals in Commemorating the Dead -- Dying Socialist in "Capitalist" Shanghai -- Ritual and the Possibility of Pluralist Subjectivity -- The Making of Personal Testimony. |
| Abstract | "An ethnography of contemporary urban Chinese death rituals and the Shanghai funeral industry, this book describes how the Chinese Communist Party governed death, how such governance was used to construct specific ideas of persons and citizens, and how such governance has changed after the introduction of market economic reforms"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Liu, Huwy-min Lucia, 1978- Governing death, making persons Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022 9781501767210 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022010643 |
| ISBN | 9781501767241 (epub) |
| ISBN | (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 9781501767234 (pdf) |
| ISBN | (paperback) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |