Buying Beauty : Cosmetic Surgery in China /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hua, Wen
Corporate Author: Project Muse
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Hong Kong [China] : Hong Kong University Press, 2013
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Beauty, Personal > Social aspect > China.
Surgery, Plastic > China.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • I. Cultural background of cosmetic surgery
  • 1. The cultural history of plastic surgery in China
  • 2. China's first "artificial beauty"
  • Ii. "Beauty capital" in social transition
  • 3. "Being good-looking is capital"
  • 4. From the "iron rice bowl" to the "rice bowl of youth"
  • Iii. The beauty economy and "beauty diplomacy"
  • 5. The commodification of the body
  • 6. China's beauty economy and beauty ideology
  • Iv. Globalization and the changing image of beauty
  • 7. From Barbie doll to the Korean wave
  • 8. Between the local and the global
  • Conclusion
  • Glossary
  • References
  • Index.

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