Unburied, the: the social lives of corpses in qing china
Auteur :
Suh, Joohee
Éditeur :
University of Washington Press
ISBN :
9780295754918
Date de publication :
28 juil. 2026
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
440 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Even as Confucian orthodoxy condemned corpse exposure as ritual failure, ordinary people developed adaptive practices that wove the unburied into moral and social life. This study reframes death in early modern China not as a stable ritual sequence but as an extended, negotiated process.