Title Scythe and the city : a social history of death in Shanghai / Christian Henriot.

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Description	1 online resource
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Scythe and the city : the measure of death -- Guilds, charities, and the community management of death -- Funeral companies and the commoditization of the dead body -- A final resting place : from burial grounds to modern cemeteries -- Foreign cemeteries and the colonial space of death -- Invisible deaths, silent deaths -- Funerals and the price of death -- The cremated body : from social curse to political rule -- The management of death under socialism.
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Subject	Death -- Social aspects -- China -- Shanghai -- History -- 19th century.
	Death -- Social aspects.
	China -- Shanghai.
	History.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	Death -- Social aspects -- China -- Shanghai -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Shanghai (China) -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
	Shanghai (China) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Chronological Term	1800-1999
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Henriot, Christian. Scythe and the city. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2016 9780804797467 (DLC) 2015050120 (OCoLC)932386000
ISBN	9780804798747 (electronic book)
	0804798745 (electronic book)
	9780804797467
	0804797463