1st Edition
Remembering the Dead in Modern China Religious Rituals of Remembrance
Introduction
1. The Ritual Politics of Imperial Death in Modern China - Daniel Barish
2. Brokering Death and Becoming Kin: Grave-Relatives and Urban-Rural Dynamics in the Yangzi Delta, 1821-1911 - Yushuang Zheng
3. Tender Matters: Remembering Dead and Dying Children in Early Twentieth-Century China - Ling Ma
4. Suicidal Communists, Posthumous Punishment, and Politics of Death in Maoist China - Xiangning Li
5. Materializing Yingling Personhood through Objects in the Taiwanese Ritual for Abortion and Miscarriage - Grace Cheng-Ying Lin
6. Ritual Calculations: Omissions and Additions in Chinese Christian Graveside Practices - Chris White
Biography
Stephen G. Covell is the Mary Meader Professor of Comparative Religion at Western Michigan University. A Fulbright scholar, he has written extensively on modern Japanese Buddhism. His research interests include self-cultivation traditions, death and dying, and Japanese religions.
Stuart H. Young is Associate Professor of East Asian Religions in the Department of Religious Studies at Bucknell University. He is the author of Conceiving the Indian Buddhist Patriarchs in China (2015). A scholar of premodern Chinese religions, his research focuses on rituals of silk production, religious uses of silk, and multispecies dimensions of Buddhism and Daoism.
Ying Zeng is Senior Director of Asian Initiatives at Western Michigan University. Her research interests are in Chinese American social history and Asian American Literature.
