Prof. HUI Yew-Foong2025-08-132025-08-132024In Lye, K. Y., & Heng, T. (Eds.). (2024). Death and the afterlife multidisciplinary perspectives from a global city (pp. 175-193). Routledge.9781032383958http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11861/24505Reinterment may be considered a form of secondary burial, which is not alien to Chinese afterlife practices. However, whereas conventionally, secondary burial has to do with seeking better geomancy for ancestors (and their descendants), the case in Singapore today has more to do with urban (re)development and the need to find alternative spaces for accommodating the dead. In most cases, exhumed remains are cremated and reinterred in private or public columbaria. Where the reinterment process is structured by Chinese religious practices, the experience is both sensory and dialogic, and reaffirms kinship and communal ties, as well as their associated hierarchies. This visual essay features three case studies—the reinterment of remains from an ancestral grave in Bukit Brown Cemetery, an ancestral grave in Seh Ong Cemetery, and a communal grave in Kwong Hou Sua Teochew Cemetery—and reflects on how the relationship between the living and the dead is renewed through a process that is at once intimate and sacred.enBook Chapter