Miss Chinese Vancouver Pageant (Chinese: 溫哥華華裔小姐競選), also known as MCV and formerly branded as Miss Chinese (Vancouver) Pageant, is an annual beauty pageant organized by

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that selects

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's representative for the annual

Miss Chinese International Pageant Miss Chinese International Pageant (, formerly 國際華裔小姐競選), or MCI () for short, is an annual international beauty pageant, organized and broadcast by TVB, a network television station in Hong Kong. It was established in 1988 and t ...

that is held in

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, organized by

TVB Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) is a television broadcasting company based in Hong Kong SAR. The Company operates five free-to-air terrestrial television channels in Hong Kong, with TVB Jade as its main Cantonese language service, and ...

. The current Miss Chinese Vancouver is Yi Yi Wang (王一亦) winner of the 2022 pageant. The pageant replaced the Miss Vancouver Chinatown Pageant, which selected Vancouver's representatives to the Miss Chinese International Pageant from 1988 to 1995. It is one of the most recognized beauty pageants among

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diaspora, alongside its Toronto counterpart. In 2020, the Miss Chinese (Vancouver) Pageant was rebranded as the Miss Chinese Vancouver Pageant.

History

The pageant began in 1995. Contestants must be of at least partial Chinese descent and have resided in Canada for continuous period of 6 months on the day the application form is signed. The age requirement is 17-27 (expanded in 2011). The contestants must have never been married or pregnant or committed a crime. The pageant is held at the

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in December of every year. However, in 2009 the location was moved to the

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due to the media currently taking place at the

for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games.

Masters of ceremonies

*1995:

Lawrence Cheng Lawrence Cheng Tan-shui (born 28 December 1954) is a Hong Kong film actor, director, screenwriter, producer, and master of ceremonies. He was a Hong Kong DJ and radio channel executive. Cheng became famous after he created the radio drama ser ...

鄭丹瑞,

Deborah Moore Deborah Maria Luisa Moore (born 27 October 1963) is an English actress. She is the daughter of actor Roger Moore and Italian actress Luisa Mattioli. Career She made her debut on TV as a child in ''The Persuaders!'' episode "The Long Goodbye" ...

狄寶娜摩亞 *1996:

鄭丹瑞,

Dominic Lam Dominic Lam Ka-wah (Traditional Chinese: Simplified Chinese: ; born 2 April 1957) is an Hong Kong Canadian actor and radio personality for Fairchild Radio in Richmond Hill, Canada. His acting career spans four decades, beginning with his tel ...

林嘉華 *1997:

鄭丹瑞,

林嘉華 *1998:

林嘉華 *1999:

林嘉華, Eva Yang 楊宜文, Walter Ngai 倪啟瑞 *2000:

林嘉華, Sam Wong 黃植森, Eric Li 李潤庭 *2001:

林嘉華, Walter Ngai 倪啟瑞, Crystal Pan 潘欣欣, Natalie Au 區念慈, Delon Lew 廖德隆 *2002:

林嘉華, Eva Yang 楊宜文, Crystal Pan 潘欣欣 *2003:

林嘉華, Eva Yang 楊宜文, Annabelle Louie 雷安娜 *2004:

林嘉華, Eva Yang 楊宜文, Anita Lee 李婉華 *2005: Stephen Au 區錦棠, Eva Yang 楊宜文, Anita Lee 李婉華, Ricky Cheung 張文謙 *2006:

Joey Leung Joey Leung Wing-Chung (; born September 10, 1965), is a Hong Kong actor, director, screenwriter / playwright, program host (TV & Radio) and drama tutor. Career He has starred in movies such as ''Girl Boxer'' (2004), ''Master of Martial Arts'' (1 ...

梁榮忠, Anita Lee 李婉華, Ricky Cheung 張文謙 *2007:

Amigo Choi Amigo(s) (Portuguese and Spanish for ''male friend'') may refer to: People * Carlos Amigo Vallejo (born 1934), Spanish Roman Catholic archbishop emeritus of Seville Places Facilities * Amigos School, a bilingual primary school in Cambridge, Ma ...

崔建邦, Anita Lee 李婉華, Ricky Cheung 張文謙 *2008: Dominic Lam 林嘉華,

Gregory Charles Rivers Gregory Charles Rivers (; born 30 April 1965) is an Australian–Hong Kong actor. Biography Rivers hails from Gympie, Queensland, and attended medical school at University of New South Wales, where he was friends with students from Hong Kong ...

河國榮, Brian Chan 陳本岡, Tsui Li Hsin 崔麗心 *2009: Stephen Huynh 黃長興, Lora Sun 孫青青, Brian Chan 陳本岡 *2010:

Patrick Tang Patrick Tang (; born 6 May 1974) is a Hong Kong singer, actor, and TV show host who has been involved in numerous drama and movie productions. He has three sisters. He started his career with TVB, where he has been from 2000 to the present day. ...

鄧健泓, Brian Chan 陳本岡, Gerald Yang 楊飛 *2011: Jason Chan 陳智燊, Tsui Li Hsin 崔麗心, Brian Chan 陳本岡 *2012: Sunny Chan 陳錦鴻, Mandy Jin 金夢宜, Ricky Cheung 張文謙 *2013: Anna Yau 丘凱敏, Ricky Cheung 張文謙, Fred Liu 劉津 *2014: William Hu 胡渭康, Ricky Cheung 張文謙, Fred Liu 劉津 *2015: Anne Heung 向海嵐, Fred Liu 劉津 *2016: Vinci Wong 王賢誌, Fred Liu 劉津 *2017: Fred Liu 劉津, Delon Lew 廖德隆 *2018: Fred Liu 劉津, BChiu 趙穎䝼, Jack Wu 胡諾言 *2019: BChiu 趙穎䝼, Delon Lew 廖德隆, Tingting Niu 牛婷婷 *2020: BChiu 趙穎䝼, Chris Yuen 袁號殷

Special performing guests

*1995:

Sandra Lang Sandra Lang (, born ) is a former Chinese Cantopop singer who was active in the 1970s and actress in Hong Kong. Lang is credited with over 25 films. Early life In 1953, Lang was born in the United States. Career During the late 1960s, Lang ...

仙杜拉 *1996: Angus Tung 童安格 *1997: ''Info Not Available'' *1998: ''Info Not Available'' *1999: ''Info Not Available'' *2000:

Teresa Carpio Teresa Carpio (born 30 September 1956) is a Hong Kong English- and Cantonese-language pop singer, actress, and singing teacher. Carpio was popular in Hong Kong during the 1970s and 1980s. She is the paternal cousin of actress and singer Rita Ca ...

杜麗莎 *2001:

Public Dreams Society Public Dreams Society was a non-profit organization and registered charity to celebrate and strengthen community spirit in Vancouver Vancouver ( ) is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia ...

Benny Yau Benny Yau (Traditional Chinese: 邱穟恆), born 8 May 1980 is a Canadian television presenter, singer, and actor known for hosting '' What's On'' on Fairchild TV, and as the lead singer of the band The WestCoast Players. Career Yau entered a ...

邱穟恆, Cindy Cheung 張瑋恩, Rebecca Yang 楊詠薇, Jenny Chang 張聖伶, Abraham Siu 蕭正中, Patrick Huang 黃紹廷 *2002:

, Rita Leung 梁璟裕, Kitty Bao 鮑芳, Gerald Kwok 郭嘉豪 *2003:

, Gerald Kwok 郭嘉豪, Bella Chen 陳薇 *2004:

Ah Niu Tan Kheng Seong (Simplified Chinese: 陈庆祥; Traditional Chinese: 陳慶祥; ), better known by his stage namAh Niu or Ah Gu(), is a Malaysian Chinese singer in Malaysia and Singapore. In 1997, his popularity was restricted to mainly Mal ...

(Tan Kheng Seong) 阿牛(陳慶祥) *2005:

Ekin Cheng Ekin Cheng is a Hong Kong actor and singer. Early in his career, he used the name Dior as a first name (because that was what it sounded like when his younger sister tried to call him 二哥 in Cantonese). He has also been referred to as Noodl ...

鄭伊健 *2006:

Anthony Lun Anthony Lun (born 12 April 1957) is a Hong Kong songwriter, arranger, musical director and singer who sings in Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese and English. Biography Anthony Lun is a graduate of La Salle College, Hong Kong, Santa Clara Unive ...

倫永亮 *2007: Jeremy Chang 張洪量,

邱穟恆, Derek Chiu 趙子恆, Phil Lam 林漢輝, Luciano Goncalves, Eric Chen 陳冠勳, Jessica Cheung 張葆頤, Jessica Chow 周美蘭, Peggy Mao 毛立慈, Ginny Huang 黃瀞儀 *2008: Remus Choy 蔡一傑,

Bernice Liu Bernice Jan Liu (born January 6, 1979) is a Canadian actress, singer, and commercial model based in Hong Kong. She has previously held the title Miss Chinese Vancouver 2000 as well as Miss Chinese International 2001, the latter position bringing ...

廖碧兒, Lini Evans 伊雲絲, Derek Chiu 趙子恆, Dionne Phillips 余迪安, Laura Tang 湯有麗, Micky Tang 鄧佑剛, Gary Yan 甄嘉亮 *2009:

Steven Ma Steven Ma Chun-wai (born 26 October 1971) is a Hong Kong actor and singer. In 1993, Ma won a record deal after winning first place at an annual singing contest in Hong Kong, later releasing his debut album, ''Lucky for Meeting You'' (幸運就 ...

馬浚偉,

Richard Yuen Richard Yuen Ming-fai, GBS, JP (, born 6 March 1956), is the former Commissioner of Customs and Excise for the Customs and Excise Department of Hong Kong. Background Richard Yuen joined the Administrative Service in August 1980. He has serv ...

袁卓凡 *2010:

Wong He Wong He (born 27 July 1967), sometimes credited as Wong Hei, is a Hong Kong actor, singer, and presenter. He is best known for his firefighter roles in TVB's ''Burning Flame'' trilogy. As a former police officer, Wong has acted primarily in l ...

王喜 *2011:

Ruco Chan Ruco Chan Chin-pang (; born 14 January 1977) is a Hong Kong actor and singer. Chan is the first TVB actor to win My Favourite TVB Actor at the StarHub TVB Awards for three consecutive years (2014, 2015, 2016), and is also the first actor to make ...

陳展鵬 *2012: Hanjin Tan 陳奐仁 *2013:

Justin Lo Justin Lo (, stage name ; born 1 July 1976) is a Hong Kong American singer-songwriter, actor and record producer working in Hong Kong. Biography Lo was born in Syracuse, New York, and moved to Hong Kong with his parents when he was two years ...

側田 *2014:

Alfred Hui Alfred Hui Ting-hang (born 29 April 1988) is a Hong Kong singer and dentist. He rose to prominence as the eleventh-place finalist in the first season of ''The Voice'' (). His debut studio album ''Departure Trilogy'' earned gold certification. H ...

許廷鏗 *2015: Alex Hung 洪杰 *2016: Mak Cheung Ching 麥長青 *2017: Joel Chan 陳山聰 *2018: Lok-yi Lai 黎諾懿 *2019:

Matthew Ho Matthew Ho Kwong-pui (born 3 August 1988) is a Hong Kong people, Hong Kong actor and television presenter contracted to TVB. He had asthma when he was young. Ho won the Most Improved Male Artiste award at the 2018 TVB Anniversary Awards. Ea ...

何廣沛 *2020:

Pakho Chau Pakho Chau Pak-ho (; born 12 November 1984), is a Hong Kong Cantopop singer, songwriter, and actor. He signed with Warner Music Group and officially entered the Hong Kong music industry in 2007. He left Warner Music in July 2017 and subsequent ...

(virtual due to

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)

Past pageant results

Major award winners

*a ^ 'Originally, the Second Runner-Up of 2010 was Linda Wang 王冠. However, she relinquished the title in May 2011 due to personal reasons and 4th place Jessie Li was awarded the title.''

Other award winners

MCV at Miss Chinese International Pageant

Vancouver has generally been fairly successful at the

(MCI) despite not placing in the top 3 until 1993, when Miss Vancouver Chinatown 1992, Elaine Barbara Der finished as 2nd runner up. In 2001, Miss Chinese Vancouver produced Vancouver's first MCI winner, Bernice Liu. Liu later joined

and is currently an actress. She was succeeded by Shirley Zhou in 2002.

Linda Chung Linda Chung Ka-yan (; born on 9 April 1984) is a Chinese-Canadian actress, singer and songwriter. She signed a long-term contract with TVB in 2004 after winning the Miss Chinese International. Chung was always Non-official Best Actress during ...

and

Leanne Li Leanne Li Yanan (; born 25 November 1984) is a Chinese people, Chinese-born Canadians, Canadian actor, actress and television host. She was the 2005 Miss Chinese International Pageant winner hailing from Vancouver, British Columbia. Early life L ...

then both won the Miss Chinese International 2004 and 2005 titles, represectively. Vancouver has produced 7 winners and including two back-to-back wins (2001 and 2002; 2004 and 2005), a record no other city has yet to break. ''Note: The winners from 1987 to 1994 (competing at Miss Chinese International 1988 to 1995) are Miss Vancouver Chinatown, the pageant that was replaced by MCV. ¹ Age at the time of the Miss Chinese International pageant ''Note: This chart only reflects Miss Chinese International Pageant contestants that were winners of Miss Chinese (Vancouver) Pageant, not of Miss Vancouver Chinatown Pageant, which is a separate pageant altogether.''

References

External links

Miss Chinese ( Vancouver ) Pageant 2010 Official SiteMiss Chinese ( Vancouver ) Pageant 2008 Official SitePageant Organizer Fairchild Television Official Website
{{Miss Chinese International Pageant

Chinese-Canadian culture in Vancouver Beauty pageants in Canada 1995 establishments in British Columbia Events in Vancouver

History

Masters of ceremonies

Special performing guests

Past pageant results

Major award winners

Other award winners

MCV at Miss Chinese International Pageant

See also

References

External links