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E-book The Funeral of Mr. Wang : Life, Death, and Ghosts in Urbanizing China

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Mr. Wang died of cancer at the Nanjing Municipal Hospital of Chinese Medicine during the wee hours of the morning on December 14, 2014. He was eighty-four years old and had been at the hospital for almost two weeks. Before coming to the hospital, he saw a series of doctors about pain in his legs and hips, but checked into the hospital when the pain increased. About five days before his death, a doctor at the hospital told his younger daughter that a prostate cancer had spread to his bones and become incurable. The news was a bit of a shock to his family, who had imagined that his pain stemmed from some sort of arthritis. The family did not tell Mr. Wang of the prognosis, but he guessed from their demeanor and asked them to contact his middle child, who lived abroad. His treatment consisted pri-marily of pain relief, though no opiates were used and Mr. Wang often complained of discomfort.Mr. Wang had two daughters and one son, all of whom were in their fifties at the time of his death. His son (the eldest child) and the younger daughter lived in Nanjing, while the older daughter had emigrated to England. As in many Chinese hospitals, the hospital administered his medicine and checked his vital signs regu-larly, but did not provide much physical care. It was up to the family to cook his meals, feed him, help him to go to the toilet, wash his body and change his clothes. Mr. Wang needed someone to be in the hospital room twenty-four hours a day, as the pain from the bone cancer prevented him from getting out of bed without help. A cot was set up so whoever was with him could sleep. His wife was too old and frail to provide this help (she rarely ventured outside of their apartment), and much of the burden fell on the younger daughter, with some help coming from the son. It was too much for the second daughter to handle. She had to return to her home to cook meals for her father, and also could not get time off from work every day. So she hired a helper from the countryside, at a cost of 120 yuan per eighteen-hour shift. (During the period of research, 1 USD was worth approximately 6.5 yuan.) The elder daughter flew back to Nanjing in time to see her father before he died, but not in time to be of much practical assistance.

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301 KIP t

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USA : University of California Press., 2021

Deskripsi Fisik

191 hlm

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English

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9780520381995

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301

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text

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computer

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online resource

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Sociology and Anthropology, Society

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