A locational trend of the cemetery and funeral policy in Beijing City in the Mid-20th Century

Abstract

A purpose of the report is to clarify a locational trend of "a land use after the death" of Beijing City of the mid-20th century and its driving force. The authors pointed out that traditional sense of values concerning the spatial separation of dead and living, and an element of the modern Chinese characteristic of the national construction by the Communist Party government were the strong driving forces of the locational change of "a land use after the death" in conclusion.