64Plakaatboek, vol. IX, 1766, pp. 503 and following. 52Further rules were issued that deal with the manner the Chinese must run their graveyards. In particular, they should get rid of all the brushwood twice a year, and dig drainage channels to avoid that water stagnates there.64 As for rich merc...

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第四集 Sacralisation of Ancient Graves 51See C. Salmon, “À propos de quelques tombes chinoises d’Indonésie,” Archipel 12 (1976), pp. 207-218 (...) 33In the late 1970s one could still see some rare remains of former cemeteries. During our successive field works we discovered eight tombs whose...

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