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Award Of Excellence
Elizabeth Dalziel The Associated Press
"Untitled Story"
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A Chinese woman who underwent a leg streching
operation shows the ammount of leg growth she is hoping to achieve 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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