Supermarket of the Dead: Burnt Offerings in China and the Cult of Globalised Consumption by Friederike Assandri, Wolfgang Scheppe
Supermarket of the Dead: Burnt Offerings in China and the Cult of Globalised Consumption

Friederike Assandri, Wolfgang Scheppe

Supermarket of the Dead: Burnt Offerings in China and the Cult of Globalised Consumption

Friederike Assandri, Wolfgang Scheppe

684 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

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In a longstanding Chinese folk custom, paper replicas of money and goods are ritually burned as offerings to win the favor of ancestors, gods and spirits. In more recent years, replicas of traditional objects have been supplanted by emulations of ...

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