Séances
9 septembre. Introduction au séminaire
The Chinese deathscape (en particulier le chapitre de Thomas Mullaney "No Room for the Dead. On Grave Relocation in Contemporary China")
16 septembre. Historiographical
perspectives: China and Europe
Ariès, Philippe. Essais sur l'histoire de la mort en Occident. Paris: Seuil, 1975, première partie
Laqueur, Thomas W., The work of the dead. A cultural history of mortal remains,
Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2015, 1-27
Cook, Constance A. Death in Ancient China the Tale of One Man’s Journey. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2006, 19-42.
23 septembre.
Death, Chinese culture and rural customs
Rawski, Evelyn S. “A historian’s approach to
Chinese death ritual”, In Death Ritual in Late Imperial and Modern
China, edited by James L.
Watson and Evelyn Rawski, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988, 20-34
De Groot, Jan Jakob
Maria. The
Religious System of China.
Leyden: E. J. Brill, 1892, Preface, i-xv; (Washing dressing) I, 331-342
Watson, James L. “The
Structure of Chinese Funerary Rites: Elementary Forms, Ritual Sequence, and the
Primacy of Performance.” In Death Ritual in Late
Imperial and Modern China,
edited by James L. Watson and Evelyn Rawski, Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1988, 3-19.
30 septembre. The social demographics of
death
Banister, Judith. “A
Brief History of China’s Population.” In The
Population of Modern China,
Springer, Boston, MA, 1992, 51-58
Henriot, Christian. Scythe and the City: A Social History of Death in Shanghai. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016,
chap. 1
King, Michelle Tien. Between Birth and Death: Female Infanticide in Nineteenth-Century China, 2014, 166-178. [ebrary]
7 octobre. Managing death in the city
De Groot, Jan Jakob
Maria. The
Religious System of China.
Leyden: E. J. Brill, 1892, (Coffin) I, 303-304; 319-326; (Free coffins)
III, 862-867
Henriot, Christian. Scythe and the City: A Social History of Death in Shanghai. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016, chap. 2 & 3
Henriot, Christian. Scythe and the City: A Social History of Death in Shanghai. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016, chap. 2 & 3
Asen, Daniel. Death
in Beijing: Murder and Forensic Science in Republican China, Cambridge, Cambridge University
Press, 2016, 27-41
14 octobre. Death in movement: Funeral
processions and coffin shipping
De Groot, Jan Jakob
Maria. The
Religious System of China.
Leyden: E. J. Brill, 1892, (Funeral procession) I, 152-207; 227-231; (Transporting) III, 834-840
Gu, Jiegang. “Funeral
Processions.” In Chinese Civilization: A Sourcebook, edited by Patricia Ebrey, New York: Free
Press, 1993, 385–390
Henriot, Christian. Scythe and the City: A Social History of Death in Shanghai. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016,
chap. 7
21 octobre. Death in place: Burial grounds
De Groot, Jan Jakob
Maria. The
Religious System of China.
Leyden: E. J. Brill, 1892, (Fengshui) III, 1049-56; (Interment) I,
207-227; (Valuables) II, 700-705; (Grave
protection) III, 868-902
Snyder-Reinke, Jeff.
“Afterlives of the Dead: Uncovering Graves and Mishandling Corpses in
Nineteenth-Century China.” Frontiers of History in
China 11, no. 1 (2016):
1–20. [!]
Henriot, Christian. Scythe and the City: A Social History of Death in Shanghai. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016,
chap. 4
4 novembre. "Bad deaths"
De Groot, Jan Jakob
Maria. The
Religious System of China.
Leyden: E. J. Brill, 1892, (Throw away) III, 1386-1389; (Ghosts) V,
470-494, (Cremation) III,
1391-1417
Huntington, Rania, "Ghosts Seeking Substitutes: Female Suicide and Repetition", Late Imperial China, Vol. 26, No. 1 (June 2005), 1-40
Henriot, Christian. Scythe and the City: A Social History of Death in Shanghai. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016,
chap. 6
18 novembre. Cremation
De Groot, Jan Jakob
Maria. The
Religious System of China.
Leyden: E. J. Brill, 1892, (Cremation) III,
1391-1417
Ebrey, Patricia, "Cremation in Sung China", The American Historical Review, Vol. 95, No. 2 (April 1990), 406-428
Henriot, Christian. Scythe and the City: A Social History of Death in Shanghai. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016,
chap. 8
25 novembre. Death under socialism
Henriot, Christian. Scythe and the City: A Social History of Death in Shanghai. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016,
chap. 9
Aveline-Dubach,
Natacha, “The revival of the funeral industry in Shanghai: A model for China”,
in Natacha Aveline-Dubach (ed.), Invisible
population: the place of the dead in East Asian megacities. Lanham,
Lexington Books, 2014, 74-97
Bellocq, Maylis,
“Dealing with the dead: Funerary rites in contemporary Shanghai” in Natacha
Aveline-Dubach (ed.), Invisible
population: the place of the dead in East Asian megacities. Lanham,
Lexington Books, 2014, 98-122
2 décembre. China
today: Body snatchers, funeral strippers, and new traditions
Session finale de discussion des tendances en Chine aujourd'hui à partir d'articles de presse et de vidéos.
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