Huwy-Min Lucia Liu
Biographic Data
| ID | 221924 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Huwy-Min Lucia Liu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Huwy-Min Lucia |
| FAMILY NAME | Liu |
| SIGNATURE | LIU H L |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Mason University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3422-3141 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Governing Death, Making Persons: The New Chinese Way of Death
This book tells the story of how economic reforms and changes in the management of death in China have affected the governance of persons. The Chinese Communist Party has sought to channel the funeral industry and death rituals into vehicles for reshaping people into “modern” citizens and subjects. Since the Reform and Opening period and the marketization of state funeral parlors, the Party has promoted personalized funerals in the hope of promot…
The Funeral of Mr. Wang: Life, Death, and Ghosts in Urbanizing China
This is a timely book on a timely topic. In this book, Andrew Kipnis describes the transformation of death management and death rituals in urban China after the Chinese Community Party adopted a market economy. As Kipnis points out, while death has been seen cross-culturally as a critical social transition, there were no prior monographs on death in the urban areas of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Such an absence of scholarly monographs i…
Market Economy Lives, Socialist Death: Contemporary Commemorations in Urban China
Based on ethnographic fieldwork in funeral parlors in Shanghai in 2010 and 2011, this article finds that regardless of how they lived, urban Chinese in Shanghai today are mainly commemorated in “memorial meetings” 追悼会. By analyzing what memorial meetings are through examining the modernist emotional expression and bodily movements as well as socialist narratives in these rituals, this article shows that memorial meetings transform dead bodies int…
The Civil Governance of Death: The Making of Chinese Political Subjects at the End of Life
This article discusses how the Chinese Communist Party governed death in Shanghai during the first half of the People's Republic of China. It examines how officials nationalized funeral institutions, promoted cremation, and transformed what they believed to be the unproductivity of the funeral industry into productivity (by raising pigs in cemeteries, for instance). I show how each of these policies eliminated possible sources of identity that we…
Ritual and pluralism: Incommensurable values and techniques of commensurability in contemporary urban Chinese funerals
The default funeral in Shanghai today consists of religious variations of a secular socialist civil ritual. Within this ritual, however, is a clear paradox: how can one create religious "variations" of a secular and socialist funeral that explicitly denies any recognition of spirits or the afterlife? How do socialist, religious, Confucian, and even Christian ideas of personhood and death become commensurable in one single ritual? This paper explo…
Ritual and pluralism: Incommensurable values and techniques of commensurability in contemporary urban Chinese funerals
The default funeral in Shanghai today consists of religious variations of a secular socialist civil ritual. Within this ritual, however, is a clear paradox: how can one create religious "variations" of a secular and socialist funeral that explicitly denies any recognition of spirits or the afterlife? How do socialist, religious, Confucian, and even Christian ideas of personhood and death become commensurable in one single ritual? This paper explo…
Market Economy Lives, Socialist Death: Contemporary Commemorations in Urban China
Based on ethnographic fieldwork in funeral parlors in Shanghai in 2010 and 2011, this article finds that regardless of how they lived, urban Chinese in Shanghai today are mainly commemorated in “memorial meetings” 追悼会. By analyzing what memorial meetings are through examining the modernist emotional expression and bodily movements as well as socialist narratives in these rituals, this article shows that memorial meetings transform dead bodies int…
The Civil Governance of Death: The Making of Chinese Political Subjects at the End of Life
This article discusses how the Chinese Communist Party governed death in Shanghai during the first half of the People's Republic of China. It examines how officials nationalized funeral institutions, promoted cremation, and transformed what they believed to be the unproductivity of the funeral industry into productivity (by raising pigs in cemeteries, for instance). I show how each of these policies eliminated possible sources of identity that we…
Ritual and pluralism: Incommensurable values and techniques of commensurability in contemporary urban Chinese funerals
The default funeral in Shanghai today consists of religious variations of a secular socialist civil ritual. Within this ritual, however, is a clear paradox: how can one create religious "variations" of a secular and socialist funeral that explicitly denies any recognition of spirits or the afterlife? How do socialist, religious, Confucian, and even Christian ideas of personhood and death become commensurable in one single ritual? This paper explo…
Market Economy Lives, Socialist Death: Contemporary Commemorations in Urban China
Based on ethnographic fieldwork in funeral parlors in Shanghai in 2010 and 2011, this article finds that regardless of how they lived, urban Chinese in Shanghai today are mainly commemorated in “memorial meetings” 追悼会. By analyzing what memorial meetings are through examining the modernist emotional expression and bodily movements as well as socialist narratives in these rituals, this article shows that memorial meetings transform dead bodies int…
The Civil Governance of Death: The Making of Chinese Political Subjects at the End of Life
This article discusses how the Chinese Communist Party governed death in Shanghai during the first half of the People's Republic of China. It examines how officials nationalized funeral institutions, promoted cremation, and transformed what they believed to be the unproductivity of the funeral industry into productivity (by raising pigs in cemeteries, for instance). I show how each of these policies eliminated possible sources of identity that we…
Governing Death, Making Persons: The New Chinese Way of Death
This book tells the story of how economic reforms and changes in the management of death in China have affected the governance of persons. The Chinese Communist Party has sought to channel the funeral industry and death rituals into vehicles for reshaping people into “modern” citizens and subjects. Since the Reform and Opening period and the marketization of state funeral parlors, the Party has promoted personalized funerals in the hope of promot…
The Funeral of Mr. Wang: Life, Death, and Ghosts in Urbanizing China
This is a timely book on a timely topic. In this book, Andrew Kipnis describes the transformation of death management and death rituals in urban China after the Chinese Community Party adopted a market economy. As Kipnis points out, while death has been seen cross-culturally as a critical social transition, there were no prior monographs on death in the urban areas of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Such an absence of scholarly monographs i…
Chinese history and philosophy (5 works) · China (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (4 works) · Communism (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)