European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 17, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The changing face of China by Nicholas d. Kristof new York times s China s Campaign against Bourgeois Libora Healion captures the headlines. Zhen Wen gets her facials. We All like to be  said Zhen. 32, a machinery designer whose Blust ins and weathered hair would blend Inlo any new York crowd she waved her Arm Al the dozens of people around her in a Beijing Beauly parlor luxuriating in their new hairdos manicures and facial treatments and added this concerns How people live. Bourgeois Liberal Mahon concerns ideology student demonstrations and thai kind of thing " that sentiment suffuses Ano consoles Beijing while tempests Rago in communist parly circles and the great Hall of the people is tilled with Calls to exorcise Bourgeois liberalization,11 most people quietly enjoy their new Lound Bourgeois pleasures we Light against Bourgeois liberalization said Sun Zenghua. 30, a cashier As a Hairdresser expertly shampooed and mailed her hair. But chinese people like to to Beautiful just like other  some of China s aging Lead is who regularly Hail the virtue of Plain  May take a harder line on preening on sell than does Sun. Bul comments like those irom 2hen and Sun underscore two facts of Lile in the people s Republic How far China has come in the last few years and the resistance to any broadening of the anti liberalization Campaign that in the last few run los has constricted intellectual me and economic experimentation. In jus a few cais the chinese people have radically changed therr appearance ethnic chinese visitors from Hong Kong or Singapore used to be instantly recon anole by thei colourful clothes and fashionable haircuts local residents although they had often graduated from the Blue Mao suits that they wore during the cultural revolution trom 1966 to 1976. Wore dour drab clothing and Plain unisex haircuts. Now a visitor to Beijing needs color film. Old people Silil usually Wear Mao jackets or other somber colors by he Young Wear red Pink Green tue and other clots that until recently were Only seen there in rainbows. Even the bicycles int Jam the capital s streets although still mostly Black and while Are sometimes pointed Green or to if. Young women commonly Curt their hair or have it styled in other ways. Some Wear earrings in newly pierced ears this is  Liu Yufen 24, a kindergarten teacher said As she displayed the Loop earrings running through her lobes an unanswered question to whether me leaders it the anti liberalization Campaign which showed its strength after student demonstrations tote lai.1 year Trown on such sartorial pleasures. Equally Uncertain 13 whether the population would accept a broadening of the Campaign to Clamp Down or. Chang Tia Heng a plastic surgeon examines eyelids of we Fen who wants to have Winder eyes. On the Small liberties of fashion that of most people Mailer More than speeches about Remote topics like Bourges liberalization. The Campaign against Bourgeois liberalization is tailing on Stone Dea cars said an american businessman living in Beijing. And people simply won t allow the government to push them backward in their daily lives to the Way they used to  a chinese official who tuns a company in Washington stale that supplies Timber to China. Yao Wei said economic changes would continue partly because a is not possible o Stop hem people would t allow  women body builders wearing bikinis look part in China s first National body building and aerobic exercise tournament on the other hand analysts who Are More pessimistic say that the chinese people May not be consulted and Shat turmoil in the past was not always predictable in the cultural revolution Lor example Many of the same people who now buy Lacy underwear or by go Blue bicycles did All they could to undermine heir Beauty and sex Appeal. For Alt the uncertainties there Are signs a in its effect on daily life Tho Campaign against liberalization is primarily a retrenchment or a pause instead of a Sharp Retreat As some have feared. For example women body builders wearing bikinis took part recently in China s firs National body building and aerobic exec Cise tournament. Chen Haosou the Deputy mayor of Beijing where the tournament was held asked people not to overreact to i a bikinis adding Don t classify bikinis in i he scope of Bourgeois liberalization the government however recently has cracked Down on restaurants in Southern Guandong province that use Bikini Clad waitresses to entice customers. Tho chinese army announced thai it would go ahead with the reintroduction of military ranks which were abolished As a Mark of class consciousness in 1965. An Exchange for trading Bonds opened this month in to Anim adding to Slock and Bond markets already set up within the last year in Beijing. Shanghai Wuhan and Shenyang. Other Dally pleasures that might strike even an american As Bourgeois scarcely raise an Eyebrow in China cosmetic surgeons Irr Beijing and other cities Are performing record numbers of Beasl augmentations nose corrections and operations to make chinese eyes took More caucasian. Some chinese still sneer at westerners As big noses but others Are willing to pay More than a month s salary to get a Turgor nose. Cosmetic surgery is relatively expensive in China whore most other medical treatment is free. Both plastic surgeons and their a fiends deny thai they Are substituting a Western Standard of Beauty for a classical chinese one. Some say that the chinese Haw always admired folded eyelids and Rou idea eyes and that whiter skin was admired because it meant that a person did not work in inc Sun i m Neil after Western Beauty said Lige a 23-year-old clerk As Slie fingered her newly expanded nose which Cost about s8s three months wages likewise a vivacious Shanghai Law student. We Fen said she was seeking folded eyelids not because they Are a Western Toucin. Bul because she thinks they Are Prelly. Maids who largely disappeared during he cultural revolution Aie reappearing Wmk a vengeance Page u the stars and stripes sunday