Editor ：Sue Fawn Chung and Pricsilla Wegars

Publisher ：AltaMira Press

Publishing Year ：2005

Call Number ：E184.C5 C539ca

Introduction ：

Death rituals have been valued by people thoughout the world for a long time. Nevertheless, people with different cultural backgroud use different ways to remember and commemorate their dead family and ancestors. This book focused on the funerary rituals and cemeteries of Chinese people in America from the late nineteenth century to show the importance of death rituals for them and the changes of the funerary rites over time. Studying individual beliefs, customs, religion, and environment, the authors illustrates the resolution of Chinese Americans on the tension between American mainstream culture and their Chinese heritage.