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Governing Death, Making Persons

Huwy-min Lucia Liu
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      Governing Death, Making Persons tells the story of how economic reforms and changes in the management of death in China have affected the governance of persons. The Chinese Communist Party has sought to channel the funeral industry and death rituals into vehicles for reshaping people into "modern" citizens and subjects. Since the Reform and Opening period and the marketization of state funeral parlors, the Party has promoted personalized funerals in the hope of promoting a market-oriented and individualistic ethos. However, things have not gone as planned.Huwy-min Lucia Liu writes about the funerals she witnessed and the life stories of two kinds of funeral workers: state workers who are quasi-government officials and semilegal private funeral brokers. She shows that end-of-life commemoration in urban China today is characterized by the resilience of social conventions and not a shift toward market economy individualization. Rather than seeing a rise of individualism and the decline of a socialist self, Liu sees the durability of socialist, religious, communal, and relational ideas of self, woven together through creative ritual framings in spite of their contradictions.
      Format: Hardback CONTRIBUTORS: Huwy-min Lucia Liu EAN: 9781501767210 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 454 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Cornell University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2023-01-15 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Asia / China, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      China, Sociology: death and dying, Anthropology, Social and cultural anthropology, Asian history

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      Huwy-min Lucia Liu is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at George Mason University.
      Governing Death, Making Persons tells the story of how economic reforms and changes in the management of death in China have affected the governance of persons. The Chinese Communist Party has sought to channel the funeral industry and death rituals into vehicles for reshaping people into "modern" citizens and subjects. Since the Reform and Opening period and the marketization of state funeral parlors, the Party has promoted personalized funerals in the hope of promoting a market-oriented and individualistic ethos. However, things have not gone as planned.Huwy-min Lucia Liu writes about the funerals she witnessed and the life stories of two kinds of funeral workers: state workers who are quasi-government officials and semilegal private funeral brokers. She shows that end-of-life commemoration in urban China today is characterized by the resilience of social conventions and not a shift toward market economy individualization. Rather than seeing a rise of individualism and the decline of a socialist self, Liu sees the durability of socialist, religious, communal, and relational ideas of self, woven together through creative ritual framings in spite of their contradictions.
      Format: Hardback CONTRIBUTORS: Huwy-min Lucia Liu EAN: 9781501767210 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 454 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Cornell University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2023-01-15 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Asia / China, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      China, Sociology: death and dying, Anthropology, Social and cultural anthropology, Asian history

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      Huwy-min Lucia Liu is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at George Mason University.

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