Cannibalism in China?

[Atomicus]

It happened in Taiwan too. My grandparents sure had some crazy stories, but I guess they're now confirmed

 

[Mo0o]

Originally posted by: techs
I feel so much better knowing that China, the country we are willfully turning into a global power, is such a highly civilized and decent country.
I just had a thought. Perhaps the Bill Bennet thread and this thread could be combined to lower crime in the U.S. and end hunger in China


http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=52&threadid=1701036&enterthread=y

You'd be surprised what happens when the fabric of society breaks down in prolonged major disasters. Katrina is nothing compared to the devastation some parts of China experience. Not to say what they did was right, but I'm not surprised it happened

 

[Mucho]

You should read Alive by Piers Paul Read

 

[mercanucaribe]

Originally posted by: DaWhim
i've read that in the history book. not surprised. there is always famine in china, do the math, the river flood once a year. this make new orleans a trivia.

If a river floods every year, it isn't a disaster.

 

[waggy]

i seem to remember reading something that said pretty much the same thing. That during that time hunger was bad so they eat human meat a lot.

think it was on a show on cannibalism.

 

[kb3edk]

Originally posted by: hjo3

Originally posted by: Savarak
it IS wikipedia... some fabricated stuff may or may not be included within reputable stuff... wonder where the person who wrote it got their information about cannibalism in china

Wikipedia doesn't state it as fact, it's from a letter a serial killer wrote in 1934. A friend of his who worked on a steamer that went from San Francisco to Hong Kong told him about the cannibalism in China.

I think it's likely that there is some grain of truth to it, although the story probably got sensationalized after passing through the brain of a serial killer. China and Japan were in a war in 1894 (which China lost), you would assume there would be some drop in agricultural output that year.

There are rumors of cannibalism attached to almost every incident of Chinese upheaval over the past 200 years, from the Taiping Rebellion, to WWII (where the alleged perpetrators were the Japanese), to Maoist China (first in the civil war vs. the Kuomintang, then 20 years later during the Cultural Revolution).

While quite offensive to Western standards of morality, you might consider modern-day China's "one-child policy" as representing a significant improvement over previous population control measures.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: Mik3y
so what? i eat my girlfriend out all the time. disturbing, aint it?

You eat your hand out? :Q

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: OBW96

Originally posted by: Mik3y
so what? i eat my girlfriend out all the time. disturbing, aint it?

Hey, I eat your girlfriend out, too!

You eat his hand out? Ew, now that is disturbing!!! :shocked:

 

[Kenazo]

Originally posted by: kb3edk
While quite offensive to Western standards of morality, you might consider modern-day China's "one-child policy" as representing a significant improvement over previous population control measures.

The problem with it is I presume some of the 2nd's are born before they're killed. I'm thinking gov't funded vasectomies would be the way to go.

 

[mugs]

Some Japanese soldiers ate prisoners during WW II.

 

[Kenazo]

Originally posted by: mugs
Some Japanese soldiers ate prisoners during WW II.

There's reports of German soldiers @ the concentration camps eating jews too.

 

[DaShen]

Originally posted by: Mo0o

Originally posted by: techs
I feel so much better knowing that China, the country we are willfully turning into a global power, is such a highly civilized and decent country.
I just had a thought. Perhaps the Bill Bennet thread and this thread could be combined to lower crime in the U.S. and end hunger in China


http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=52&threadid=1701036&enterthread=y

You'd be surprised what happens when the fabric of society breaks down in prolonged major disasters. Katrina is nothing compared to the devastation some parts of China experience. Not to say what they did was right, but I'm not surprised it happened

QFT... It happens in a lot of different culture when a great disaster strikes. I believe I would never do it personally, but who knows what hunger would do to you.

 

[kb3edk]

Originally posted by: Kenazo

Originally posted by: kb3edk
While quite offensive to Western standards of morality, you might consider modern-day China's "one-child policy" as representing a significant improvement over previous population control measures.

The problem with it is I presume some of the 2nd's are born before they're killed. I'm thinking gov't funded vasectomies would be the way to go.

A good idea, but in the long run unnecessary. Since so many "one-child" couples do pre-birth gender screening and have females aborted, the boy-girl birth ratio in China is currently 120 to 100. They don't need vasectomies because so many of them are going to be lifelong bachelors anyway.

 

[Kenazo]

Originally posted by: kb3edk

Originally posted by: Kenazo

Originally posted by: kb3edk
While quite offensive to Western standards of morality, you might consider modern-day China's "one-child policy" as representing a significant improvement over previous population control measures.

The problem with it is I presume some of the 2nd's are born before they're killed. I'm thinking gov't funded vasectomies would be the way to go.

A good idea, but in the long run unnecessary. Since so many "one-child" couples do pre-birth gender screening and have females aborted, the boy-girl birth ratio in China is currently 120 to 100. They don't need vasectomies because so many of them are going to be lifelong bachelors anyway.

Great the chinese are already buying all the oil and steel, next thing they'll be taking our women.

 

[kb3edk]

Originally posted by: Kenazo

Originally posted by: kb3edk

Originally posted by: Kenazo

Originally posted by: kb3edk
While quite offensive to Western standards of morality, you might consider modern-day China's "one-child policy" as representing a significant improvement over previous population control measures.

The problem with it is I presume some of the 2nd's are born before they're killed. I'm thinking gov't funded vasectomies would be the way to go.

A good idea, but in the long run unnecessary. Since so many "one-child" couples do pre-birth gender screening and have females aborted, the boy-girl birth ratio in China is currently 120 to 100. They don't need vasectomies because so many of them are going to be lifelong bachelors anyway.

Great the chinese are already buying all the oil and steel, next thing they'll be taking our women.

Who knows? Probably not too much to worry about in the West, but if I was a boy growing up in Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, or the Philippines I'd certainly get to work on learning how to charm the ladies :heart:

 

[kb3edk]

Anyway sorry for the threadjack, I'm still not sure whether we established that cannibalism took place in China 110 years ago.

 

[compnovice]

I think the stuff is fabricated... Chinese have probably the most varied diet in the world, from insects to dogs to snakes. Sure they must have had other options than eating humans...Maybe a few cases but not widespread as having market and butchers for human meat

 

[V00DOO]

During 1932-1933 Ukrainian turned to cannibalism when Joesf Stalin decided to mass starvation on the Ukraine. Human body parts were traded as commodity. So I would be surprise if it did happened in China.

 

[DaShen]

I wonder if asians taste better or something? is that why there are more reported cases in asia or the pacific?

Are Anglo-Saxons too gamey?

 

[broon]

The thought once was that when you eat your enemy, you become stronger. Another thought was that you honor the person you killed by eating them. Some cultures still practice it.