PEOPLE queue for hours to visit the 'Gallery of the Grotesque' and see Vase Girl, 20-year-old Liang Xiaoping, advertised as standing just 45cm tall in a box that houses her 'deformed' body.
Xiaoping is the main attraction of a freak show that also features a four-legged duck, two-headed snakes and chickens, and ritual Tibetan whips and goblets made from human skin and skulls.
Xiaoping's 'box home' is on show at Wuzhou's Sun Yat Sen Park, in southern Guangxi province.
Her plight is reminiscent of a 19th century imperial tale that says the Empress Dowager Ci Xi had a rival concubine's limbs amputated and her body stuffed into a Ming vase which she kept at the Summer Palace and taunted as if her victim were still alive.
The show, which has toured Shanghai and Guangzhou, draws up to 1,000 people a day.
'We discovered Xiaoping six years ago in her home town of Hefei, Anhui province,' her manager, Ah Hoisai, claimed.
'Although her head is perfectly normal, her body is deformed and limbless.