Beauty Shopping With My Mother, A Former Cultural Revolution Red Guard

A former beauty editor reflects on the differences between the definition of beauty in America and in China during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, where an “unadorned woman was a symbol of liberation from a patriarchal capitalist system.”

Author: Noël Duan
Source: Racked
Published: Jan 19, 2017
Length: 7 minutes (1,974 words)
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