"My patients often bring pictures of the stars they want to look like, but I never do what they say because it wouldn't suit their face, " says Canan Melike Koksuz, a surgeon at Isom, an Istanbul cosmetic surgery practice, which says it has welcomed chief executives and celebrities from as far away as China and Australia for hair transplants.

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Countless brothels operate across China, often thinly veiled as karaoke bars, saunas, massage parlors and hair salons.

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He is a classic type of the generation that received an American education and returned to China a chain-smoker with a thick brush of gray-flecked black hair, Ferragamo eyeglasses, and a bilingual sense of humor.

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Swire also hosts beauty classes, helping new female workers like 22-year-old Wan Xu, who recently graduated from hospitality school in China's central Hubei province, learn how to use make up and fix their hair.

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