The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
Contemporary practices: China
Heng, T. 2020
‘Interacting with the dead: understanding the role and agency of spiritis in assembling deathscapes’, Social and Cultural Geography, 23:2, 400-423.
Henriot, C. 2019
‘When the dead go marching in: cemetery relocation and grave migration in Modern Shanghai’, in T. S. Mullaney (ed.) (2019) The Chinese Deathscape: Grave Reform in Modern China, Stamford University Press.
Hetmanczyck, P 2018
‘Frugal deaths: socialist imaginations of death and funerals in modern China’, in S. Arvidsson, J. Beneš & A. Kirsch (eds) Socialist Imaginations: Utopias, Myths, and the Masses, London: Routledge.
Kawaguchi, Y. 2014
‘Traditional funerary rights facing urban explosion in Guangzhou’, in N. Aveline-Dubach (ed.) Invisible Population: The Place of the Dead in East Asian Megacities, Plymouth: Lexington Books, 123-137.
Kipnis, A. 2021
The Funeral of Mr Wang: Life, Death and Ghosts in Urbanising China, Oakland CA, University of California Press.
Liu, H. 2021
Market economy lives, socialist death: contemporary commemorations in urban China’, Modern China, 47:2, 178-203.
Liu, P., Chen, S., & Liu, Y. 2012
‘Construction planning of eco-cemeteries in Daluo Mountain, Wenzhou City of China’, Journal of Landscape Research, 4(9), 27.
Mueggler, E. 2017
Songs for Dead Parents: Corpse, Text and the World in Southwest China, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Mullaney, T. 2019
The Chinese Deathscape: Grave Reform in Modern China, Stamford University Press.
Mullaney, T. 2019
‘No room for the dead: on grave relocation in Contemporary China’, in T. S. Mullaney, T.S. (ed.) The Chinese Deathscape: Grave Reform in Modern China, Stamford University Press.
