Posts Tagged ‘China’
Yes, He Sold Fakes. They Are Supposed to Be Fake. Jeffrey E. Singer and Corey Kilgannon, The New York Times (August 24, 2011) Paper imitations of luxury items are traditional at Chinese funerals as gifts for the dead, but a seller of cardboard handbags was arrested on copyright-infringement charges on Tuesday. Ok ok. So the [...]
- By: John
- In: Cremation|Death + Crime|Death + Popular Culture|Death + the Law
- Tags: China, cremains, Cremation, funerals
No More Big Dead Tombs in China
22, Apr 2011As China’s Income Gap Grows, Tombs Are a Target Sharon LaFraniere, The New York Times (April 22, 2011) From the bottom end of this article: On paper, low-cost burials have been national policy since at least 1997, when State Decree 225 ordered cemetery land conserved and “thrifty funeral arrangements” promoted. The Pine Tree of Longevity, [...]
- By: John
- In: Cemeteries|Death + the Economy|Monuments + Memorials
- Tags: China, grave markers
“Body Fishing Up Ahead”
13, Dec 2010This story has affected me in a way that many others about death have not. The complete and utter sense of tragedy permeating it is hard to shake and the mental imagery conjured up while reading it is the stuff of nightmares. In what has got to be one of the more grim and disturbing [...]
- By: Kim
- In: Death + the Economy|Death Ethics
- Tags: body fisherman, China
Overtime and Under Stress
8, Jun 2010“Maybe this spate of suicides will also serve us as a wake-up call,” he said in an interview last week. “We realize we must do a better job.” —Louis Woo, a high-ranking Foxconn executive The NY Times has written another article about the Foxconn suicides. This follows a second pay raise by the company this [...]
Foxconn Raises Salaries
4, Jun 2010Today’s NY Times reports that Foxconn will raise employee’s salaries by 33 percent. Assembly line workers will now go from the equivalent of approximately $132 per month to $176 per month. A week earlier, company chairman Terry Gou, had promised to improve conditions at the factory and to quell the rash of suicides plaguing the [...]
- By: Kim
- In: Death + Technology|Suicide
- Tags: China, Foxconn