Feminine Ideal Shifts in China's Cultural Evolution

Feminine Ideal Shifts in China's Cultural Evolution. This article in the LATimes has very little to do with technology... or does it? What is it that makes Lu Yan, so unattractive by chineese standards, the ultimate china-doll by western standards? Does this acceptance and fame filter back to her homeland where she is slowly churning the concepts of beauty, fitting them to her ugly duckling image, make the ugly duckling look more attractive than a swan itself... there is something here.