(Daily Beast) As 83-year-old Qi Luji explains in Dead Souls the reason he chose to work in the canteen at Chinas Jiabiangou re-education labor camp in 1958 was because he had heard a story about a couple with five daughters and one young son who some time earlier had been staying at the facility. Faced with crushing hunger the father had decided to kill his boy and eat him. Intervening his eldest daughter argued that the family needed a male heir and that she should be sacrificed instead. Heeding her advice the father stabbed his oldest girl to death and consumed her. Read More