VIDEO: RISE OF CONSUMERISM IN CHINA
Many Chinese are spending more than ever before. (Video by Jodi Raab in Shanghai for McClatchy) | More China videos from PSU students
VIDEO: PRIVATE SCHOOLS EMERGE IN CHINA
Private schools are a relatively new phenomenon in China. (Video by Kelly Rippin in Shanghai for McClatchy) | More China videos from PSU students
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He Zen's path to cosmetic surgery was fast and simple. Her mother saw an ad in a Shanghai newspaper and figured that more Caucasian-looking eyes would make it easier for her unmarried 28-year-old daughter to find a husband. She made an appointment for her daughter the next Saturday morning. When He Zen went to the clinic and saw some examples of the doctor's work, she agreed to have the $290 operation that afternoon. » read more
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- · PSU students report from China for McClatchy
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This is the second year that Penn State University has taken a group of its student journalists on a reporting trip abroad. Fifteen print, broadcast and multimedia students from our International Reporting course spent a week in Shanghai, the mega-city of soaring skyscrapers that is the embodiment of China's emergence as an economic superpower.
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