Making the Semi-Colonial Infrastucture of Death: Public Mortuary in Modern Shanghai (1860s-1930s)
Published online on April 14, 2026
Abstract
Journal of Urban History, Ahead of Print.
This article examines how the materiality of the public mortuary reshaped the urban governance of death and gave rise to the hygienic modernity in modern Shanghai. Since the mid-nineteenth century, the Shanghai Municipal Council had built mortuaries in ...
This article examines how the materiality of the public mortuary reshaped the urban governance of death and gave rise to the hygienic modernity in modern Shanghai. Since the mid-nineteenth century, the Shanghai Municipal Council had built mortuaries in ...