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LINDA Zhang flew all the way from Southwest China's Sichuan Province to Shanghai last month and spent about 26,000 yuan (US$3,136) for plastic surgery on her jaw.
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- Handsome profits
LINDA Zhang flew all the way from Southwest China's Sichuan Province to Shanghai last month and spent about 26,000 yuan (US$3,136) for plastic surgery on her jaw.
- New technology adds edge to laser cosmetology
LASER medical cosmetology is becoming more and more popular in Shanghai.
- Face lifting race
XING Xin, the leading doctor in the plastic surgery department of the Changhai Hospital and a medical school lecturer, said he did not think South Korean plastic surgeons were better than their Chinese counterparts. They were popular in Shanghai now merely because of "commercial hype".
- Plastic disasters
One breast too many
- Remoulding beauty
OPERATIONS in the Plastic Surgery Section of Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital are in full swing and the waiting room is thronged with young people waiting for cosmetic surgery.
- Child's play as a career
JUST like any white collar worker, Zhang Chaoxi goes to the office every day, switches on the computer and starts work as usual.
- Cricket matches - Chinese style
FU Cun has a two-storey apartment of about 200 square metres. But he still finds it too cramped, because he always need more space for his favourite crickets.
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- Blow to Iran, US
TEHERAN - Ayatollah Mohammed Baqer al-Hakim may not have espoused an Iranian-style revolution in Iraq, but Iran lost a sympathetic ear that will be difficult to replace when the Iraqi Shi'ite leader was killed last week.
- Slowing the spin should help Blair's prospects
LONDON - Britain's government should see its ratings recover with the departure of communications chief Alastair Campbell, but many analysts believe reports of the death of spin have been greatly exaggerated.
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- Pondering Marx in the dark
On vacation in Toronto recently I was deluged by questions from Canadian friends and family fascinated - but also confused - about the contemporary nature and direction of Chinese society.
- Freakish behaviour
I admit I am a fitness freak - back home in the UK, I row, run up mountains and do the triathlon, as well as paying my gym subscription and actually going! (OK, forget the 'fitness', I'm just a freak, clearly).
- Shanghai critique misses the point
Shanghai has always been a favoured target for verbal attacks by outsiders.
- Piracy and other mortal sins
For yours truly, China is an audiophile's paradise and a heaven for DVDs, the place literally being awash with super music CDs and virtually any movie, music and cultural DVD under the sun both foreign and local can be had for the price of a phone call.
- Plain talk for plain people
Near our school there is a photo studio we call the "magic photo studio". It is a place where student job seekers can expect a resume photograph that will surprise anyone.
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- Disciplining time and space
MANY insiders believe the Shanghai Museum is the most advanced in the country, and it enjoys strong financial support from the municipality as well as efficient management.
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- A way of life
IN our daily life, we Chinese have many interesting common practices, unexplainable but widespread. Have you ever noticed, for example, how we always attach great importance to the choice of auspicious days (huang dao ji ri) to hold ceremonies, such as the corner stone laying ceremony, the opening ceremony, or weddings? Or when we move to a new house, how we pay special attention to the layout of furniture. There are even quite a lot of older people who worry about the people's birthdays (sheng chen ba zi) when pondering upon a possible spouse for their children.
- The oldest school in Shanghai
IN ancient China, schools were established with the same educational principles, based on the doctrines of Confucius and Mencius, and later on the idealistic philosophy of Zhu Xi of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644).
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