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Award Of Excellence
Elizabeth Dalziel The Associated Press
"Untitled Story"
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Hao Lulu, famous in China for her drive to transform
herself through plastic surgery prepares to undergo her 22nd operation in
Beijing, China Aug. 24, 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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