In one piece, Barbie’s smiling lips are encircled in a ring of bright, turquoise resin to make an $80 brooch. In another, her eye becomes the center of a $1,200 pendant necklace, winking out ...

She is the mother of more than 20 children, Gong tells Sixth Tone. She isn’t a heedless violator of China’s family-planning laws, however. Her sons and daughters are BJDs, or ball-jointed dolls, who ...