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Killing and selling women as "ghost brides"

The high demand for afterlife wives in some rural Chinese villages led one man to commit murder.
Tracy Clark-Flory

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  • Friday, January 26, 2007 03:56 PM

    I'm trying to get my head around this

    China has a surplus of men. Where a commodity (women) is scarce someone will do crimes to supply those who have money and demand.

    But why in the name of all that's holy would a murdered corpse be worth more than a live, breathing woman?

    —anuran Read anuran's other letters

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