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020			_a9781501767227
028			_aBrijwasi Book Distributors _bH-87, Lalita Park, Laxmi Nagar, Delhi _cBW/000326 _d4/11/2025
082			_a393.93 LIU
100			_aLiu, Huwy-min Lucia.
245			_aGoverning Death, Making Persons _b: The New Chinese Way of Death. _c/Huwy-min Lucia Liu.
260			_a, London _b: Cornell University _c, 2022.
300			_axviii, 252p. _c: 24cm.
365			_b2357
520			_aParty 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.
650			_aGoverning Death
650			_a Chinese Way of Death
650			_aDeath in China
700			_aHuwy-min Lucia Liu
942			_cBOOK
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