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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 greets the media as she 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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