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luvgabe ago

A short story in Lu Xun's Diary of a Mad Man is his account of Chinese sick with tuberculosis dipping mantou (steamed buns) into the blood of an executed man, in the belief that consuming the blood would heal tuberculosis. https://eastasiastudent.net/china/mandarin/lu-xun-diary-madman-10/

angelafogo ago

Read the whole story. Its full of hidden references.