Eating Human Flesh in China: Two Studies

Did the Chinese of the Tang really eat executed criminals and sell human flesh in their markets, as Arab merchants reported? Kuwabara Jitsuzō (1871-1931) answered from the Chinese sources themselves, in a short essay of 1919 and a full study of 1924, both translated here.

Complete and unabridged, with a translator's note on the texts' period views. Contains descriptions of extreme violence.