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This generation of women might have escaped the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, and China's "one-child" policy might have relieved them, whether they like it or not, of endless motherhood.

But this is a cultural revolution all of its own, which brings pressures in its own right.

"China is still a male-dominated country -- you can't deny that. It's still much easier for a man to do business in China than it is for a woman," laments businesswoman Eva Ho.

Wang also has concerns.

"People don't want to talk about politics, people don't want to talk about literature. People just want to talk about very, very practical things -- can I get a good job? Can I get a good car? I worry a little bit about the soul-lessness," she says.

But these concerns aside, in this new, glittering China, it's clear that there is a social and sexual revolution underway -- if not a political one.

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