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Buying beauty : cosmetic surgery in China /
Cosmetic surgery in China has grown rapidly in recent years of dramatic social transition. Facing fierce competition in all spheres of daily life, more and more women consider cosmetic surgery as an investment to gain "beauty capital" to increase opportunities for social and career success...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hong Kong :
Hong Kong University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The cultural history of plastic surgery in China
- China's first "artificial beauty"
- "Being Good-Looking is Capital"
- From the "Iron rice bowl" to the "Rice bowl of youth"
- The comodification of the body
- China's beauty economy and beauty ideology
- From Barbie doll to the Korean wave
- Between the local and the global.