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Qingming Jie: With No Body, How to Mourn?

Saturday marks Qingming Jie, or Tomb-Sweeping Day, when families traditionally pay respects to the dead. Yet in China’s crowded cities, space for graves is at a premium, and some municipalities are offering incentives for burials at sea. Yet the idea has yet to catch on in a country where human burial is an important tradition. Bruce Einhorn at Bloomberg/Businessweek reports: According to the country’s official English-language newspaper, local governments are