Politics
China funeral: Beijing wants to focus on cremation
This year, China published new rules to regulate funerals. The government advocates affordable and environmentally friendly services in the continuity of its decades-long policy of imposing cremation. But in the countryside – where people have been burying their dead on their lands for centuries – many families resist. How is this modernisation that Beijing wants lived through? Report from Yena Lee, with Lou Kisiela.