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Second burial : New Zealand Chinese experience, 1883 and 1902

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  • Other Name

    2nd burial (Alternate title)

  • Description

    "The Cantonese custom of secondary burial, the idea of exhuming the dead, cleaning the bones, and then burying them again, helps to explain why so many (overseas) Chinese were not only willing to exhume their dead but also to clean the bones and put them in containers for shipment back to China."--Back cover.

  • Place
    [Auckland, New Zealand]
  • Other Id

    DU434.5.C5 WON (Library of Congress Call Number)

    86878 (Cat ID)

    86735 (Presto content ID)

  • Department

    Publications

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