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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 shows off her buttocks implants to her
doctors before undergoing 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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