The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
Funeral industry: China
Aveline-Dubach, N. 2014
‘The revival of the funeral industry in Shanghai: a model for China’, in N. Aveline-Dubach (ed.) Invisible Population: The Place of the Dead in East Asian Megacities, Plymouth: Lexington Books, 74-97.
Belloq, M. 2012
‘Dealing with the dead: funerary rights in contemporary Shanghai’, in N. Aveline-Dubach (ed.) Invisible Population: The Place of the Dead in East Asian Megacities, Plymouth: Lexington Books, 98-122.
Liu, H. 2021
Market economy lives, socialist death: contemporary commemorations in urban China’, Modern China, 47:2, 178-203.
Watson, J. 1988
‘Funeral specialists in Chinese society: pollution, performance and social hierarchy’, in J. Watson & E. Rawski (eds) Death Ritual in Late Imperial and Modern China, London: University of California Press, 109-134.
