The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
Contemporary practices: Hong Kong
Chan, S. & Chow, A. 2017
‘A cultural sociological review of Chinese funeral ritual’ in N. Thompson & G. Cox (eds) Handbook of the Sociology of Death, Grief and Bereavement: A Guide to Theory and Practice, London: Routledge, 351-365.
Teather, E. 2001
‘Time out and worlds apart: tradition and modernity meet in the time-space of the gravesweeping festivals of Hong Kong’, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 22:2, 156-172.
Teather, E. 1998
‘High rise homes for ancestors: cremation in Hong Kong’, Geographic Review, 89, 409-30.
Westendorp, M. 2018
‘Individual expressions of familial rituals: Buddhist and Anglican ways of paying respect to ancestors in contemporary Hong Kong’, Journal of Ritual Studies, 32:2, 43-54.
