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...judges, muscle definition and mass symmetry were everything. But for most of the 5,000 Chinese spectators who jammed the sports coliseum in Shenzhen recently to see 46 female body builders compete, the appeal was far simpler: the ever so brief costumes that showed off more of the feminine form than the Chinese have ever before seen in public...
...demure, one-piece suits, the country's female body builders are creating a sensation with their new sports uniforms. The first blow for navel liberation was struck in September by four competitors at a provincial contest. "A sudden hail of deafening screams and whistles broke out," reported the biweekly Shenzhen Youth Herald. "The four girls trembled at the center of the stage and slowly lowered their heads." When the hall finally quieted and the athletes raised their heads to strike their poses, the 500 spectators went wild...
...traditionalists denounced the trend as an "unhealthy wind." But puritanical worries quickly gave way to more practical considerations. Bluntly put, if Chinese women hoped to compete internationally, they would have to show a little more flesh. Peking finally came around and ruled that bikinis could be worn at the Shenzhen contest. The Chinese press soberly hailed the itsy, bitsy swatches as a "great challenge to the traditional concepts and remnants of feudal ideology." An appreciative whistle might have made the point just as nicely...
...overtake the United States in Internet usage, but the country's blogosphere is a fascinating, still evolving animal. When mobilized, China's 100 million-plus netizens can, by collective effort, accomplish noble ends. Take the case of Foxconn, a Taiwanese company with a factory in the southern boomtown of Shenzhen. After two local journalists published an article questioning labor conditions in the factory (which made parts for Apple's I-pod), Foxconn sued them personally for millions of dollars. But the resulting hue-and-cry on the web prompted the company to back down. Admirable...
...have made Hong Kong's stock market their No. 1 choice for going public. Why? The imposition of onerous reporting requirements on companies listing in the U.S. in the wake of the Enron scandal has knocked some of the shine off New York, while Chinese bourses in Shanghai and Shenzhen are often considered to be too immature and restricted (foreigners are allowed to trade freely only in certain shares). Besides, Hong Kong has no shortage of local and international investors who love to gamble on IPOs. In October, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the country's largest bank...