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Chinese using new techniques to gain upperhand in job market.
  Competition For Jobs, Partners Sparks Height Craze In China TV Regularly Promotes 'Stretching Machines,' Surgery Techniques POSTED: 12:49 pm EDT June 6, 2005 UPDATED: 1:46 pm EDT June 6, 2005 Competition for jobs and marriage partners has sparked a national height craze in China that has people lining up to be surgically stretched or to purchase torture rack-like stretching machines, according to a Local 6 News report. " [edit] there was a video, you can see it on the link below [/edit] A senior executive at one of China's largest job-search Internet sites admits that it's a commonly-held belief that "taller people will have more opportunity for promotion." In recent months, advertisements on Chinese television are regularly promoting "stretching machines," which look like benches reminiscent of the medieval torture rack. Users are supposed to strap themselves in by head and foot and turn a crank to extend the bench beneath them. A voice-over on one of the TV advertisements claims that the "body stretch and exercise machine" can stretch human cartilage and "boost young people's height." Also, a private hospital in Beijing has become famous for its height-extending practice which puts patients out of action for six months or more. If it works, the procedure can extend the length of your bones by more than "15 percent," according to Dr Xia Hetao, who performs the surgery.  Xia uses an adaptation of a method originally developed in Russia more than a century ago.Xia breaks his patient's legs, then attaches metal pins to the separated bones, which are held in place by metal frames around the patient's legs. The patient then has to twist a knob daily to drag the ends of broken bone apart gradually, encouraging new bone to grow to bridge the gap as the fracture heals, resulting in longer bones, and a taller person, according to the report. He insists that his procedure has a high rate of success. However, Xia said that there are other operators in China who botch the job. As leg-lengthening becomes more popular, Xia is calling for official regulation of the practice. China's Ministry of Health says it is very concerned about the trend.  One of Xia's patients, Wang Junhong, traveled thousands of miles from southern China to get her legs lengthened in Beijing.She said she knows of doctors that offer the surgery near where she lives, but she doesn't trust them to get it right. Competition for work and business success in China can pressure job seekers to take drastic action to increase their height. Job advertisements often prominently list height requirements for potential candidates The average Chinese woman is about 5 feet 2 inches tall and the average man about 5 feet 6 inches, according to the report. Original story Click Here Last edited by dapimpstress; Jun 07, 05 at 02:02 PM. 
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I bet so too. this is especially wack though because there are advertisements for the precedure on television! not only THAT but there are freaking HEIGHT REQUIREMENTS for jobs!
and seriously. in a culture where your career makes you, its pretty fuckd to have height requirements on jobs because what the fuck are u sposed to do if you are short? have this extremely painful surgery and process? fuck that.
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Chinese buy into the beauty myth
 Zhang Di won a newspaper competition and 12 operations to give her a new, more Western look. Picture: Hamish McDonald Plastic surgeons are being swamped by affluent ugly ducklings wanting to emerge as swans. Hamish McDonald reports from Shanghai. Three months after her name was proclaimed around the world as China's "Miss Ugly", Zhang Di is looking at the world with new eyes. And a new mouth, in fact. Not to mention a new nose, a new shape to her jaw and a new hairline. [...] The reverse beauty competition, run by a brash tabloid newspaper called Midday News, attracted about 50 entries from young women in Shanghai. The prize was 100,000 yuan ($16,000) worth of cosmetic surgery from Dr Zhang. [...] Dr Zhang details the four procedures involving 12 minor operations that turned her from Yangtse duckling into Shanghai swan. First, to help lengthen the round face, he moved back the hairline with a laser. Then he trimmed some bone from the jaw just below each ear, while injections of botox helped firm up facial muscles. He then built up the rather low bridge of the nose. "The overall goal was to make her nose higher, like a Westerner's," he said. Then the eyes: they were too small and narrow. The eyes were opened wider and a surgical tuck under the skin pulled them a little closer together. "The modern trend is to reshape the smaller Oriental kind of eye into a half-Western kind of eye," Dr Zhang said. 
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