"What is important to note here is that all four factors are products of urbanisation itself. Urbanisation makes ghosts...I believe that the totalitarian impulse of the Communist party regime to banish all spirits other than that of the party itself can only increase the haunting of urban China. We must learn to live with our ghosts rather than repress them." https://aeon.co/essays/rapid-urbanisation-is-stoking-paranormal-anxieties-in-china h/t @subtopes #hauntological
Rapid urbanisation is stoking paranormal anxieties in China | Aeon Essays

In Nanjing, Hong Kong and other Chinese cities, rapid urbanisation is multiplying a fear of death and belief in ghosts

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