Scythe and the City
Christian Henriot
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Description for Scythe and the City
Hardcover. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBTB; JHBZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 771.
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 public health. In a place where every group had its own beliefs and set of death and funeral practices, how did they adapt to a modern, urbanized environment? How did the interactions of social organizations and state authorities manage these new ways of thinking and acting?
Recent historiography has almost completely ignored the ways in which death ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804797467
SKU
V9780804797467
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99-50
About Christian Henriot
Christian Henriot is Professor of Modern History at Aix-Marseille University and the author of numerous books on modern Chinese history, including Prostitution and Sexuality in Shanghai: A Social History, 1849–1949 (2001). He is also Project Director of Virtual Shanghai (virtualshanghai.net).
Reviews for Scythe and the City
"Christian Henriot provides an utterly original perspective on Shanghai's modernization. Against a background of periodic epidemics and wars, poverty stands out as the biggest killer. Shanghai sucked in and killed people by the tens of thousands, this human fuel being what fired the city and made it work. Henriot's 'scythe' will stick in readers' minds."
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