They called her "Yang Nan-Nan, " a pet name Shanghainese give to girls who are fair-skinned and pretty.

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He was preposterously fair-skinned, weak in the chin, cherubically curly up top, and had worn the same round wire frames forever.

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Other Internet sites already compete with the advertisements that Indian families place in the newspapers, requesting fair-skinned, slender, domesticated, convent-educated Brahmin girls in their early 20s for their 30-something, tall engineer sons with a five-figure salary.

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