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It is a new form of dictatorship led by advertising, market forces and mass consumption. Since China has a single child policy, that child has only one option: to be perfect. Daughters, in particular, carry the weight of parental expectations, hopes and wishes. At all costs, they have to be tall, fa...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Pakosz, Elodie (Director)
Format: Video
Language:English
Language Notes:IThis edition in English and Chinese with voice-over in English.
Published: Paris : Ampersand, 2005.
Series:China: new (dis)orders
Current affairs in video
Subjects:
Beauty, Personal > China.
Surgery, Plastic > China.
China.
Chirurgie plastique > Chine.
Beauty, Personal
Surgery, Plastic
China
documentary film.
Documentary films
Documentary films.
Documentaires.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
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Summary:It is a new form of dictatorship led by advertising, market forces and mass consumption. Since China has a single child policy, that child has only one option: to be perfect. Daughters, in particular, carry the weight of parental expectations, hopes and wishes. At all costs, they have to be tall, fair complexioned and smiling. In this exceptional documentary, see how Chinese women lengthen their legs with gruesome surgery. See also how they westernize their eyes and breasts. BEAUTY IN CHINA is a hard hitting illustration of the dark side of China's dive into modernity.
Item Description:Title from resource description page (viewed May 9, 2014).
Physical Description:1 online resource (28 min.).
Playing Time:00:28:16