http://shanghaiist.com/2006/04/07/what_is_it_with.php All comments for What is it with Gansu and body parts? en-us 2009 shang_kenneth Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:00:13 +0800 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss kenneth@shanghaiist.com kenneth@shanghaiist.com 60 http://shanghaiist.com/2006/04/07/what_is_it_with.php#comment-205185 http://shanghaiist.com/2006/04/07/what_is_it_with.php#comment-205185 Comments Fri, 07 Apr 2006 14:17:40 +0800 <p>It's all a business. In Lhasa at the Barkor, they sell hundrends of those skull caps. The reason the tops are sawed off is becasue the top cap, which is like a drinking vessel or something, is then sold as a toursit item. Hell, a Tibetean kitch shop next to my office on Changshu Lu also has skull cap in the window. They had to get them from somewhere. The question is, if a skull cap would wholesale for say 200 RMB, you think some enterprising mass murder would slaughter LIVE people just to sell skull caps? Probably. </p> http://shanghaiist.com/2006/04/07/what_is_it_with.php#comment-205181 http://shanghaiist.com/2006/04/07/what_is_it_with.php#comment-205181 Comments Fri, 07 Apr 2006 11:55:25 +0800 <p>Gansu and body parts? Gansu, body parts and saws! If it isn't Buddhists who go around sawing the tops off human heads, could it be the same folk who go around sawing arms off babies? Does anyone know what use human skull drinking bowls can be put to in traditional Chinese medicine?</p>