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Award Of Excellence
Elizabeth Dalziel The Associated Press
"Untitled Story"
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X-rays of a leg streching operation lie on a
surgeons's light table in Beijing, China May 15, 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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