The Missing Girls and Women of China, Hong Kong and Taiwan
Huang, Hua-Lun
In the past century, tens of millions of women and girls have disappeared in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. There are many reasons behind this phenomenon: some were sold as "foreign spouses", imprisoned for their political beliefs, taken to night clubs or massage parlors to work as "escorts", provided as "comfort women" to soldiers, or murdered by female corpse dealers and sold as "ghost brides" to families looking to give their deceased sons w...