TY - BOOK ID - 78362269 TI - Scythe and the city PY - 2016 SN - 9780804797467 9780804798747 0804798745 0804797463 PB - Stanford, California DB - UniCat KW - Death KW - S03/0633 KW - S13A/0410 KW - Dying KW - End of life KW - Life KW - Terminal care KW - Terminally ill KW - Thanatology KW - Social aspects KW - History KW - China: Geography, description and travel--Shanghai (incl. concessions) KW - China: Religion--Death, funeral, ancestral worship, graves KW - Philosophy KW - Shanghai (China) KW - Changhaï (China) KW - Ṣămhayi (China) KW - Shang-hai (China) KW - Shang hai shi (China) KW - Shanghai KW - Shanghai Municipality (China) KW - Shanghai Shi (China) KW - Shanghai Shi ren min zheng fu (China) KW - Shankhaĭ (China) KW - Xangai (China) KW - 上海 (China) KW - Social conditions KW - Chang-hai (China) KW - Schanghai (China) KW - 上海市(China) KW - 上海市人民政府 (China) KW - Шанхай (China) KW - Śangqai (China) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78362269 AB - 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, urbanised environment? How did the interactions of social organisations and state authorities manage these new ways of thinking and acting? Christian Henriot's pioneering and original study of Shanghai between 1865 and 1965 gives 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. ER -