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The Unburied: The Social Lives of Corpses in Qing China Joohee Suh
The Unburied: The Social Lives of Corpses in Qing China
Joohee Suh
Even as Confucian orthodoxy condemned corpse exposure as ritual failure, ordinary people developed adaptive practices that wove the unburied into moral and social life. This study reframes death in early modern China not as a stable ritual sequence but as an extended, negotiated process.
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| To be released | July 28, 2026 |
| ISBN13 | 9780295754925 |
| Publishers | University of Washington Press |
| Pages | 232 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 10 mm · 336 g |