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Asian Beauty: Beyond Skin Deep; From foot binding to stilettos, the ideals of feminine beauty have shifted dramatically over the centuries.(museum exhibition of Asian beauty)
Byline: Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop
When the Chinese blockbuster movie "Curse of the Golden Flower" opened last year, Gong Li's ample cleavage stole the spotlight. Historically, Chinese women have more commonly been associated with modesty, and many viewers thought Gong's revealing look was an anachronism in a film set at the end of the Tang dynasty (618-907). In fact, the film was reviving a long-forgotten image of Asian beauty as voluptuous. "In the Sui and early Tang dynasties [late sixth and seventh centuries], willowy figures were idealized in thousands of pottery figurines of female beauties," says University of Melbourne art historian Tonia Eckfeld. "But by ...
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