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Getting Sexy in China

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May 12, 2011
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In a globalized world, beauty standards tend to merge. While Nordic features and toned bodies are the dominant aesthetic in advertising and show business, in China where Western looks are genetically unattainable, more and more women are nonetheless resorting to going under the scalpel.

Cosmetic surgery is now a US$2.5 billion annual industry in China an…

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