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China’s body image shifts from cultural revolution to sexual revolution

As the Olympic Games draw near, it is not ideology or collective yearning that asserts itself in the Middle Kingdom, but the physical self coming to full consciousness. The civilization known for Confucian morals, Taoist mysticism, acupuncture, tai chi, martial arts-radically different ways of looking at the self in relationship with the cosmos-has wholeheartedly embraced Western culture and mores. "Economic and educational opportunities, readily available telecommunications and the Internet have made the people of China highly mobile, and quite well informed," says Wang, but also "more individual-centered and therefore, less committed to traditional extended family and Confucian social ethics."