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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/exploring-death-modern-china/
SUMMARY:Exploring Death in Modern China
DESCRIPTION:\n	Christian Henriot (Professor of modern Chinese history\, Aix
 -Marseille University\, France)\n\n	Chair: Elizabeth Perry (Henry Rosovsky
  Professor of Government\, Harvard University\; Director\, Harvard-Yenchin
 g Institute)\n\n	Co-sponsored with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
 \n\n\n	The issue of death loomed large in Chinese cities in the modern era
 . Despite its intrinsic importance in any society and its particular impor
 tance in the historical experience of Chinese cities\, however\, death is 
 basically absent from the field of Chinese urban history. Based on a study
  of Shanghai between 1865 and 1965\, Christian Henriot explores what death
  meant and represented in China during a period of immense social change. 
 The central question the talk will address is: In view of known Chinese pr
 actices about death\, how did death practices adapt to a modern\, urbanize
 d environment\, and how did the interactions of social organizations and s
 tate authorities manage them? It will unveil facets of urban society in a 
 tumultuous era that radically redefined the relationship of the Chinese wi
 th death.\n\n	About the speaker: Christian Henriot is Professor of modern
  Chinese history at Aix-Marseille University and a Senior Research Fellow 
 at the Institut Universitaire de France (2007-2012). He is the author and 
 editor of several books on modern Chinese history\, including Prostitution
  and Sexuality in Shanghai. A Social History\, 1849-1949 (Cambridge UP\, 2
 001)\, In the Shadow of the Rising Sun. Shanghai under Japanese Occupation
  (Cambridge UP\, 2004) and Visualizing China (Brill\, 2012). His latest mo
 nograph\, Scythe and the city. A social history of death in Shanghai (1865
 -1965) is due in April 2016 at Stanford University Press. Henriot is also 
 the author of a digital research and resource platform on Shanghai history
  (http://virtualshanghai.net). 
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