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Award Of Excellence
Elizabeth Dalziel The Associated Press
"Untitled Story"
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A Plastic surgeon looks at an eyelid surgery
procedure done on a young inner Mongolian immigrant in Beijing, China Oct.
26, 2005. An Estimated one million Chinese people per year flocking to
plastic surgery as a way to boost their confidence as expendable incomes
grow. Fueling the trend is a desire to compete in a rapidly changing society
where image and first impressions count and social stigmas on buying
perfection are few. A few decades ago, a Chinese woman could have been
denounced and maybe even beaten for wearing lipstick, much less undergoing
surgery to improve their looks. In the 1960s and 1970s, the closest thing to
a Chinese beauty ideal was Liu Hulan, a robust 15-year-old country girl with
a practical bob and not a trace of makeup who was decapitated by the
Nationalists when she refused to name her fellow Communists in 1947.
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