Research Article
The Social Portrayal of Cosmetic Surgery Phenomenon in Chinese Movies
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.19-10-2021.2316583, author={Mariana Mariana and X Lin}, title={The Social Portrayal of Cosmetic Surgery Phenomenon in Chinese Movies }, proceedings={Proceedings of the First International Conference on Literature Innovation in Chinese Language, LIONG 2021, 19-20 October 2021, Purwokerto, Indonesia}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={LIONG}, year={2022}, month={3}, keywords={social portrayal psychology cosmetic surgery}, doi={10.4108/eai.19-10-2021.2316583} }- Mariana Mariana
X Lin
Year: 2022
The Social Portrayal of Cosmetic Surgery Phenomenon in Chinese Movies
LIONG
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.19-10-2021.2316583
Abstract
Nowadays, in China, there is a new word “beauty economy, it is an essential part of cosmetology, the beauty industry and the cosmetic industry, which increase progressively 20% every year, and total value of 1.8% China GDP. This paper describes The Social Portrayal of Cosmetic Surgery Phenomenon in Chinese Movies such as The Reign of Assassins (2010), Painted Skin: Resurrection (2013) and The Truth About Beauty (2014) and the latter movie become author’s most research object. The Truth About Beauty (2014) has raised the cosmetic surgery as a social phenomenon in China. Through these movies, we understand why women undergo cosmetic surgery, what kind of benefit or harm is caused by doing cosmetic surgery, what kind of influence affected their psychology after the surgery. Job and marriage become the main reason why women in China willing to do cosmetic surgery. Despite that, we also see that although many Chinese people still could not accept cosmetic surgery, cosmetic surgery gradually become a huge industry, and the social phenomenon in China is unstoppable.