History: 20c China

Henriot, C. 2009

“Invisible deaths, silent deaths”: “bodies without masters” in Republican Shanghai’, Journal of Social History, 43:2, 407-37.

Naquin, S. 1988

‘Funerals in North China: uniformity and variation’, in J. Watson & E. Rawski (eds) Death Ritual in Late Imperial and Modern China, London: University of California Press, 37-79.

Watson, J. 1988

‘Funeral specialists in Chinese society: pollution, performance and social hierarchy’, in J. Watson & E. Rawski (eds) Death Ritual in Late Imperial and Modern China, London: University of California Press, 109-134.

Whyte, M. 1988

‘Death in the People’s Republic of China’, in J. Watson & E. Rawski (eds) Death Ritual in Late Imperial and Modern China, London: University of California Press, 289-316.

Events

The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract