Funerals

LIVING IN CHINA

Their Last Portraits: Photographing 3,000 Elders in the Countryside

Photographer Yang Xin takes free “funeral portraits” for elderly people in remote villages, and learns about their attitude to life and death

Jan. 7, 2023

SOCIETY

Staking out hospitals, meeting body quotas: a “body transporter” shares his memories from the competitive undertaking of death

Oct. 25, 2022

LIFE

Worried about buying an expensive tomb? Rest beneath a QR code instead

April 4, 2017

ANCIENT HISTORY

A look behind the ancient Chinese tradition of corpse walking

May 5, 2014