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Miss Universal Values

The band was playing Cocaine as the small entourage entered but it was highly doubtful any of them would ever touch the stuff: these were international representatives of China, “athletes” in a land of contradictions, competing for fresh spoils. After years of … Continue reading

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Incest, beauty standards, and manipulating public opinion

A Jiang Wenli ad for Maxam cosmetics has a son saying he’d like to marry his mother. Debate has raged in the Chinese media; feminist commentator Lu Pin says that this is missing the point.

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