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Award Of Excellence
Elizabeth Dalziel The Associated Press
"Untitled Story"
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A contestant of the Plastic Surgery makeover
television contest 'Lovely Cinderella' prepares to take off her mask after
undergoing various operations in Changsha, Hunan, China Dec. 1, 2006. 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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