Scythe and the City

A Social History of Death in Shanghai

Christian Henriot (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

496 Seiten

2016 | New edition
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8047-9746-7 (ISBN)

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The issue of death has loomed large in Chinese cities in the modern era. Throughout the Republican period, Shanghai swallowed up lives by the thousands. Exposed bodies strewn around in public spaces were a threat to social order as well as to public health. In a place where every group had its own beliefs and set of death and funeral practices, how did they adapt to a modern, urbanized environment? How did the interactions of social organizations and state authorities manage these new ways of thinking and acting?

Recent historiography has almost completely ignored the ways in which death created such immense social change in China. Now, Scythe and the City corrects this problem. Christian Henriot's pioneering and original study of Shanghai between 1865 and 1965 offers new insights into this crucial aspect of modern society in a global commercial hub and guides readers through this tumultuous era that radically redefined the Chinese relationship with death.

Christian Henriot is Professor of Modern History at Aix-Marseille University and the author of numerous books on modern Chinese history, including Prostitution and Sexuality in Shanghai: A Social History, 1849–1949 (2001). He is also Project Director of Virtual Shanghai (virtualshanghai.net).

Introduction
1. Scythe and the City: The Measure of Death
2. Guilds, Charities, and the Community Management of Death
3. Funeral Companies and the Commoditization of the Dead Body
4. A Final Resting Place: From Burial Grounds to Modern Cemeteries
5. Foreign Cemeteries and the Colonial Space of Death
6. Invisible Deaths, Silent Deaths
7. Funerals and the Price of Death
8. The Cremated Body: From Social Curse to Political Rule
9. The Management of Death under Socialism

Erscheinungsdatum	25.05.2016
Zusatzinfo	26 tables, 4 figures, 20 halftones, 19 maps
Verlagsort	Palo Alto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Trennung / Trauer
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	0-8047-9746-3 / 0804797463
ISBN-13	978-0-8047-9746-7 / 9780804797467
Zustand	Neuware