Civil Governance and the Making of Political Subjects at the End of Life -- The Making and Unmaking of Market Subjects : Market Governance, Funeral Parlors, and State Practitioners -- Fragility and Moral Ambiguity : Lives of Private Funeral Brokers under an Authoritarian Market Economy -- The Absence of Individuals in Commemorating the Dead -- Dying Socialist in "Capitalist" Shanghai -- Ritual and the Possibility of Pluralist Subjectivity -- The Making of Personal Testimony.
Summary:
"An ethnography of contemporary urban Chinese death rituals and the Shanghai funeral industry, this book describes how the Chinese Communist Party governed death, how such governance was used to construct specific ideas of persons and citizens, and how such governance has changed after the introduction of market economic reforms"-- Provided by publisher.
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