Miss World Canada Says China Blocking Visa
Anastasia Lin, the 25-year-old Chinese-Canadian woman who won the 2015 Miss World Canada...
by Josh Rudolph | Nov 9, 2015
Anastasia Lin, the 25-year-old Chinese-Canadian woman who won the 2015 Miss World Canada...
by Melissa M. Chan | Aug 21, 2012
While Miss China took the Miss World 2012 title, cows in Shanxi Province also had the opportunity to be crowned the winner in the Miss Dairy Cow Pageant, from The New York Daily News: Cows in China got the chance to strut their...
by Samuel Wade | Aug 21, 2012
Three China-based Foreign Correspondents’ Clubs have issued a joint statement condemning “alarming” recent episodes of harassment against foreign reporters. From the Foreign Correspondents’ Club, Hong...
by Melissa M. Chan | Aug 19, 2012
As China embraces beauty pageants, Miss China Yu Wenxia was crowned Miss World on Saturday. She is the second contestant to win from China: 2007’s Zhang Zilin was the first Chinese contestant to win an international beauty...
by Melissa M. Chan | Oct 19, 2011
China is embracing beauty competitions, which it once rejected, and Maoist ideals of equality have been replaced by modeling competitions and beauty pageants for all ages. Although some say that these contests objectify females...
by Sophie Beach | Aug 20, 2011
Lou Zilin, Miss China, is poised to become the China’s first ever Miss Universe at the contest is Brazil next month. To up her chances, she is currently in New York, undergoing extensive training on how to become...
by Sophie Beach | Nov 26, 2008
In these days of tense relations between Beijing and the Tibetan government-in-exile, even the Miss Tibet pageant has become politicized, the Washington Post reports: And the winner was Sonam Choedon, a shy 18-year-old with...
by Priscilla Jiao | Oct 13, 2008
From AFP: A Chinese lawmaker has quit a beauty contest after critics accused her of debasing the pageant with politics, state media said Monday. Yuan Jing, 22, ranked second out of 1,000 contestants in the Miss Chinese...
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