Migration: Chinese

Chung, S. & Wegars, P. (eds) 2004

Chinese American Death Rituals: Respecting the Ancestors, Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press.

Dewi, K.E. & de Meulder, B. 2024

‘Chinese cemeteries in Indonesian colonial and post-colonial urban areas: resistance, urban expansion, nationalistic aspiration, and post-colonial governmentality’, Journal of Chinese Architecture and Urbanism, DOI.

Eom, S. 2023

‘Bulldozing the dead: Chinese, citizenry, and cemetery in post-colonial South Korea’, Modern Asian Studies, 57:1, 53-69.

Han, G-S, Forbes-Mewett, H, & and Yang Wang, W. 2018

‘My own business, not my children’s: negotiating funeral rites and the mobility and communication juncture among Chinese migrants in Melbourne’, Mobilities 13:5, 761-775.

Rodregues, I. 2018

‘“Fallen leaves return to their roots”: the invisibility of death and the idea of “home” in the burial politics of Chinese migration’, in P. Havik, J. Mapril & C. Sariva (eds) Death on the Move: Managing Narratives, Silences, Constraints in a Trans-National Perspective, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 56-73.

Events

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