Executed Chinese prisoners likely used in UK exhibition (2021)

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noman-land ◴[10 Jul 25 15:45 UTC] No.44522295[source]▶

I was taken to the Body Worlds[0] exhibit when it was going around and it was extremely fascinating and disturbing. At the time I knew nothing about it, but when I was looking at the exhibits I noticed that many of people displayed looked Chinese. There were even children in the exhibits. Trying to imagine how those bodies ended up there for us to look at was a very discomforting thought and I didn't enjoy thinking about that at all. Very unusual experience.

[0] https://bodyworlds.com/

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DocTomoe ◴[10 Jul 25 16:02 UTC] No.44522513[source]▶

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Body Worlds - at least when I started in the 1990s (and their website claims: as well as today) - was a 100% european-bodies from volunteers exibition.

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1. maxglute ◴[10 Jul 25 19:09 UTC] No.44524412[source]▶

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As a Bodies enthusiast, anything pre 97 including Body World can be relatively uncontested - PRC execution was still bullet to back of skull then. Lethal injection transition took until 2010s.

All the drama/allegations around executed bodies started popping up during transition period. Mostly around Dalian which became hub of plastination. I think collection went from like 20-200+ bodies over that period. IIRC von Hagen had to return a few bodies he thought was sus. Falungong made claims these were prisoner bodies - there was big FLG round up in late 90s.

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