Scythe and the city : a social history of death in Shanghai /
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 b...
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Stanford, California :
Stanford University Press,
2016.
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