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"Provides new information on funerary practices in East Asia's largest cities in which spatial constraints and the secularization of lifestyles are driving innovation. It reveals common trends in Japan, China and Korea, and addresses emerging challenges such as urban sustainability and growing social inequities."--Publisher's description.

Sommario

Introduction, Natacha Aveline-Dubach
Chapter 1: Creative Destruction-The Shattering of the Family Grave System in Japan, Natacha Aveline-Dubach
Chapter 2: The Experience of Death in Japan's Urban Societies, Katsumi Shimane
Chapter 3: Emerging Burial Spaces and Rituals in Urban Japan, Fabienne Duteil-Ogata
Chapter 4: The Revival of the Funeral Industry in Shanghai: A Model for China, Natacha Aveline-Dubach
Chapter 5: Dealing with the Dead: Funerary Rites in Contemporary Shanghai, Maylis Bellocq
Chapter 6: Traditional Funerary Rites Facing Urban Explosion in Guangzhou, Yukihiro Kawaguchi
Chapter 7: Cremation's Success in Korea: Old Beliefs and Renewed Social Distinctions, Elise Prebin
Chapter 8: Funerary Sites in Seoul: A History Marked by Colonial Experience, Ryohei Takamura
Chapter 9: Overview of Korea's Funeral Industry, Shi-Dug Kim
Conclusion

Info autore

Natacha Aveline-Dubach is research director at the CNRS, specializing in urban land issues and currently posted to the French Research on Contemporary China in Hong Kong. She graduated from INALCO in Japanese studies, received a PhD in urban sciences from EHESS (which was awarded the Shibusawa-Claudel Prize) and the Habilitation from Lyon 2 University in 2005. From 2006 to 2010, she served as director of the Northeast Asia CNRS regional office in Tokyo. She has extensively published on Japanese urban land issues.

Riassunto

This book provides new information on funerary practices in East Asia’s largest cities in which spatial constraints and the secularization of lifestyles are driving innovation. It reveals common trends in Japan, China and Korea, and addresses emerging challenges such as urban sustainability and growing social inequities.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Natacha Aveline-Dubach
• Con la collaborazione di: Natacha Aveline-Dubach (Editore), Aveline-Dubach Natacha (Editore)
• Editore: Rowman and Littlefield
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.03.2014
• EAN: 9780739190906
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-9090-6
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Geoscienze > Geografia; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze sociali, tematiche generali; Soziologie: Sterben und Tod, Sociology, Ostasien, Ferner Osten, Einzel- und Großhandel, Asia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Service, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Urban Sociology, East Asia, Far East, Urban communities, Asian Culture, Sociology: death and dying, Hospitality and service industries, Sociology: Death & Dying, Service industries, international studies, Asian Studies