From Chief Asian Inspector:
Every two minutes somewhere in China, a woman has cosmetic surgery to give her Western double eyelids. It is now a $3 billion business, divided among 1 million plastic surgery clinics employing 6 million people. Hilariously, Beijing hosted the first “Miss Artificial Beauty” for “manmade beauties” in 2004 – contestants included a transsexual.[full text]
See also “Chinese women under knife in race for jobs, husbands” by China Daily
