Scythe and the City: A Social History of Death in Shanghai by Christian Henriot

Scythe and the City: A Social History of Death in Shanghai

Christian Henriot

496 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

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The issue of death has loomed large in Chinese cities in the modern era. Throughout the Republican period, Shanghai swallowed up lives by the thousands. Exposed bodies strewn around in public spaces were a threat to social order as well as to publ...

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