Jessica Gisclair, the associate department chair in the School of Communications, presented her paper "Beauty exposed: A survey of traditional values" at the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, Oct. 17.
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The paper examines the traditional value of what is beauty in Chinese culture. It supports more recent research that posits exposure to Western values does not diminish traditional Chinese values.