In rural China funerals were conducted locally: on village land by village elders. But in urban areas people have neither land for burials nor elder relatives who can conduct a funeral. Chinese urbanization, which has picked up drastically in the last decades, has involved the creation of cemeteries, state-run funeral homes, and small private funerary businesses. The Funeral of...(展开全部)

In rural China funerals were conducted locally: on village land by village elders. But in urban areas people have neither land for burials nor elder relatives who can conduct a funeral. Chinese urbanization, which has picked up drastically in the last decades, has involved the creation of cemeteries, state-run funeral homes, and small private funerary businesses. The Funeral of...(展开全部)

理查德·劳埃德·帕里（Richard Lloyd Parry） 英国著名驻外记者、作家，旅居日本20余年，现任《泰晤士报》亚洲主编兼东京分社社长。他本人关注日本社会议题，撰写了大量文章和著作，其中，《疯狂之时》（In the Time of Madness）被提名斯坦福·杜曼年度旅行图书奖，《吞噬黑暗的人》（People Who Eat Darkness）入围塞缪尔约翰逊图书奖长名单。《巨浪下的小学》一书于2018年获福里奥文学奖，并出版日译本。

理查德·劳埃德·帕里（Richard Lloyd Parry） 英国著名驻外记者、作家，旅居日本20余年，现任《泰晤士报》亚洲主编兼东京分社社长。他本人关注日本社会议题，撰写了大量文章和著作，其中，《疯狂之时》（In the Time of Madness）被提名斯坦福·杜曼年度旅行图书奖，《吞噬黑暗的人》（People Who Eat Darkness）入围塞缪尔约翰逊图书奖长名单。《巨浪下的小学》一书于2018年获福里奥文学奖，并出版日译本。

For modern people, ghost stories are no more than thrilling entertainment. For those living in antiquity, ghosts were far more serious beings, as they could affect the life and death of people and cause endless fear and anxiety. How did ancient societies imagine what ghosts looked like, what they could do, and how people could deal with them? From the vantage point of modernity...(展开全部)

For modern people, ghost stories are no more than thrilling entertainment. For those living in antiquity, ghosts were far more serious beings, as they could affect the life and death of people and cause endless fear and anxiety. How did ancient societies imagine what ghosts looked like, what they could do, and how people could deal with them? From the vantage point of modernity...(展开全部)

For modern people, ghost stories are no more than thrilling entertainment. For those living in antiquity, ghosts were far more serious beings, as they could affect the life and death of people and cause endless fear and anxiety. How did ancient societies imagine what ghosts looked like, what they could do, and how people could deal with them? From the vantage point of modernity...(展开全部)

On 11 March 2011, a massive earthquake sent a 120-foot-high tsunami smashing into the coast of north-east Japan. By the time the sea retreated, more than 18,500 people had been crushed, burned to death, or drowned. It was Japan’s greatest single loss of life since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. It set off a national crisis, and the meltdown of a nuclear power plant. And even a...(展开全部)

On 11 March 2011, a massive earthquake sent a 120-foot-high tsunami smashing into the coast of north-east Japan. By the time the sea retreated, more than 18,500 people had been crushed, burned to death, or drowned. It was Japan’s greatest single loss of life since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. It set off a national crisis, and the meltdown of a nuclear power plant. And even a...(展开全部)

Award-winning author Jonathan D. Spence paints a vivid picture of an obscure place and time: provincial China in the seventeenth century. Life in the northeastern county of T'an-ch'eng emerges here as an endless cycle of floods, plagues, crop failures, banditry, and heavy taxation. Against this turbulent background a tenacious tax collector, an irascible farmer, and an unhappy ...(展开全部)