Chinese Characters

That suit, that hair, that mole: you immediately recognize Chairman Mao. But who--or what--are those pouty women, with their Western features, retro hairdos and dead-eyed stares? They're store mannequins, manufactured in China for the Chinese market, never appearing solo but always arrayed in chorus lines. Perhaps the discordantly comical images have a darker point: if you have that system of government, you get this kind of dehumanized citizen.