"Burial grounds, as one of the most important landscape that connect the living and the dead, can often represent culture, tradition and aesthetic evaluation of a local community; therefore, understand the similarities and differences among the burial sites can help people understand the culture and tradition of places behind the burial sites. This research studies the similarities and differences among different Western and Chinese burial sites, including Pere Lachaise in Paris, three municipal cemeteries in Michigan, USA, three public cemeteries in Shanghai, China, Two Chinese imperial tombs in Nanjing, China, and two rural ancestral burial grounds in Jiangsu, China." -- Abstract.
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