After 30 years of hanging around with Chinese people, there are some things

I still don’t get. The lurking obsession with cannibalism, for instance,

famously explored by the 20th-century writer Lu Xun in his “Diary of a

Madman.” (See also Jasper Becker’s Hungry Ghosts, and Anthony Burgess’s

novel The Wanting Seed for more on this.)

And now a reader has sent me this.

Er…