"China is undergoing significant socio-economic, cultural as well as political changes. It offers an opportunity to examine how people develop their new perspective of what constitutes beauty, how they would work on their bodies in order to respond to new

"This book contains rich ethnographic detail, offers a good account of how cosmetic surgery has become a fairly common phenomenon, and carefully contextualizes cosmetic surgery in the broader sociocultural changes in contemporary China. Scholars and stude

Wen Hua received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She has worked in academia and international organizations in the field of gender and development.