Miss Chinese Vancouver 2013 crowned on Fairchild TV

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      A 23-year-old 5'7" student from Shanghai, Cindy Zhong, became Miss Chinese Vancouver 2013 last night at the Vancouver Convention Centre.

      Zhong will be Vancouver's representative at the Miss Chinese International Pageant, which will take place in Hong Kong in 2014.

      The first runner-up was Vancouver-born dancing and yoga enthusiast Jennifer Diane Lee.

      Second runner-up Jamie Gao is from Heilongjiang, China.

      (Learn about all the finalists here.)

      The event was put on by Fairchild TV.

      Vancouver-born Jennifer Diane Lee is next in line for the crown. Jamie Gao is the second runner-up.
      Yiheng Su
      Cindy Zhong at a photo shoot in advance of the competition.
      Yiheng Su

      Comments

      21 Comments

      Anthony

      Dec 13, 2013 at 8:13pm

      She is pretty but she is Miss China. she isn't suited to represent Vancouver, in my opinion. According to her blog on Fairchild, she only recently got her Canadian citizenship. Meaning she has probably only been in Canada for 3 years. Wow, come on Fairchild.

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      Charlie Smith

      Dec 13, 2013 at 10:40pm

      More than 45 percent of Greater Vancouver residents were foreign-born in the 2011 census. It wouldn't be a Vancouver pageant if there weren't a lot of foreign-born women participating.

      We should be happy that talented young people are moving to Vancouver from other countries.

      Charlie Smith

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      Juno

      Dec 14, 2013 at 5:01am

      In my honest opinion, I think the first runner up deserved the crown more. The standard of beauty is to each their own, I suppose, but she best embodies both Vancouver AND Chinese cultural heritage. Also, the winner's talent performance was just extremely lacklustre. If you can, you should go see it...

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      Chan

      Dec 14, 2013 at 8:43am

      This pageantry culture is so strange to me, total creep show. Although the saber and cape are a pretty sweet incentive.

      Interesting to see Straight readers are all over it with comments like "in my honest opinion" , thanks for that Juno, we really give a f___

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      casper

      Dec 14, 2013 at 2:18pm

      Second place looked hot.

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      casper

      Dec 14, 2013 at 2:19pm

      Make that 2nd runner up, third place.

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      boreal

      Dec 14, 2013 at 2:35pm

      Georgia Straight giving coverage to a racist pageant??
      Times do change.

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      Anthony

      Dec 14, 2013 at 5:57pm

      @Charlie: Having 90% of the participants not even from Vancouver is not called "miss Chinese vancouver pageant". They should have chosen ones who were at least living in Canada for AT LEAST over 5 years... at least then they would understand the cultural, language, etc.

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      Anthony

      Dec 14, 2013 at 6:00pm

      @Juno To begin with, it was already wrong to have so many non-Vancouver running in the pageant.

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      Sing Tao

      Dec 14, 2013 at 6:02pm

      Anyone wanna go for dim sum ?

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