"'Til death do us part," takes on a much more sinister meaning in China where the business for "ghost brides" is booming. A court in the northern province of Shaanxi heard how the men had made a total ...

Chinese gangsters once again prove the aphorism, "Dead girls don't say no." A ring of gangsters who traded in the bodies of women they murdered, selling them as brides to keep dead bachelors happy in ...

China’s one-child policy has led to an acute shortage of women and an oversupply of bachelors, both in life and in death. In a case that has shocked the nation, 52-year-old farmer Sung Tiantang has ...

This couple’s nuptials were a bit stiff! A crew of body-snatching thieves were arrested in China’s Shanxi Province for allegedly stealing the corpse of a young woman and selling it to be used in a ...

Over the course of two years, especially after DramaFever shuttered their streaming service, Netflix has really upped their selection of Asian dramas proving that Netflix was serious about their foray ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook and Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. So you want to marry a ghost. In some societies, it’s possible—with a few ...

BEIJING -- Police in northern China have detained three people suspected of stealing a corpse to sell as a bride in the ancient Chinese rite of ghost weddings, which join single people who died for a ...

The words “till death do us part” don’t really apply in this case. Quite the opposite, actually. Chinese authorities have arrested 11 people in the eastern province of Shandong for digging up bodies ...

Despite being barred from entering mainland China as a video-platform operator, Netflix is expanding its roster of Chinese-language original content. Production is now underway in Malaysia on “The ...

Even though "The Ghost Bride" is a fictional story, author Yangsze Choo said it is based on real stories she heard growing up in Malaysia. Marriage is seen as a happy milestone in a person’s life, but ...

China: The bodies of dead women in China are being snatched from graves and sold for thousands of pounds to feed a growing demand for 'corpse brides'. In parts of the country an ancient superstition ...

Despite being barred from entering mainland China as a video-platform operator, Netflix is expanding its roster of Chinese-language original content. Production is now underway in Malaysia on “The ...