Miss Chinese International Pageant 2001 was held on January 20, 2001 in

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. At the end of the pageant,

Bernice Liu Bernice Jan Liu Bik-yee (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 ...

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, Canada was crowned the 13th

Miss Chinese International Miss Chinese International Pageant ( zh, 國際中華小姐競選, formerly 國際華裔小姐競選), or MCI ( zh, 華姐) for short, is an annual international beauty pageant, organized and broadcast by TVB, a network television station in Hong ...

. This was the first victory for the Canadian city. Prior to this, Vancouver has never placed higher than 2nd runner up.

Pageant information

The theme to this year's pageant is "The Gathering of Cosmopolitan Treasure, The Brightness of Eastern Pearl" 「名都瑰寶滙聚東方明珠生輝」. The Masters of Ceremonies were

Carol Cheng Carol Cheng Yu Ling (; born 9 September 1957), nicknamed Do Do, is a Hong Kong host and actress. Cheng made her break in TVB series, ''Man in the Net'' (1979-1980). She is the first to win both the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress and th ...

and

Vincent Kok Vincent Kok Tak-chiu (; born 15 August 1965) is a Hong Kong actor, scriptwriter and film director. Vincent's ancestral hometown is Shandong province. Kok is best known for his frequent collaborations with Stephen Chow, acting and co-writing w ...

. Special performing guests were

cantopop Cantopop (a contraction of "Cantonese pop music") is a genre of pop music sung in Cantonese. Cantopop is also used to refer to the cultural context of its production and consumption. The genre began in the 1970s and became associated with Hon ...

singers

Alan Tam Alan Tam Wing-lun (; born 23 August 1950) is a Hong Kong singer and actor. He played a major role in developing the Cantopop scene in the 1980s as he was known for singing romantic ballads with modern arrangements. From 1983 to 1987, Alan Tam re ...

Edison Chen Edison Chen Koon-hei (, born Chen Hing-wah on 7 October 1980) is a Canadian-born Hong Kong actor, singer, rapper, fashion designer and entrepreneur. In 1999, at the age of 19, Chen was scouted to shoot a credit card commercial with Leon Lai. H ...

, Ding Fei Fei and

mandopop Mandopop or Mandapop refers to Mandarin popular music. The genre has its origin in the jazz-influenced popular music of 1930s Shanghai known as Shidaiqu; later influences came from Japanese enka, Hong Kong's Cantopop, Taiwan's Hokkien pop ...

singer

Elva Hsiao Elva Hsiao (, born 24 August 1979) is a Taiwanese singer. Having gained widespread popularity for her R&B-influenced ballads, she is recognized as one of the four lesser “Queens of Heaven” of Mandopop. Life and career 1979–1998: Earl ...

Results

Special awards

*Miss Friendship: Hsin-Ting Chiang 江欣婷 (Taipei) *Miss Cosmopolitan: Bernice Liu 廖碧兒 (Vancouver) *Miss Internet Goodwill: Mandy Chen 陳育嬬 (Brisbane) *Miss Talent: Bernice Liu 廖碧兒 (Vancouver)

Contestant list

Crossovers

Contestants who previously competed or will be competing at other international beauty pageants: ;

Miss Universe Miss Universe is an annual international major beauty pageant that is run by a Thailand and Mexican-based Miss Universe Organization.Natalie Tadena (July 2, 2015"Donald Trump's Miss USA Pageant Lands on Reelz Cable Channel". ''The Wall Stree ...

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, : Hsin-Ting Chiang
(''representing '') ;

Miss International Miss International (''Miss International Beauty'' or ''The International Beauty Pageant'') is a Japan-based international major beauty pageant organized by the International Culture Association. First held in 1960, it is the fourth largest page ...

2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

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, : Hsin-Ting Chiang
(''representing '')

Mandy Chen & Edison Chen scandal

The delegate representing

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, (20) Mandy Chen 陳育嬬, became entangled in a photo scandal with one of the pageant's performers

, when suspected nude pictures of Mandy Chen engaging in sexual acts, along with pictures of other Hong Kong female celebrities surfaced in early 2008. During the pageant, Edison Chen has stated that Mandy Chen is his favourite delegate.DWNews Article Dated February 6, 2008 - In Chinese
Retrieved May 4, 2009. Mandy Chen has yet to comment on the incident.

References

External links

* ttp://tvcity.tvb.com/special/misschi2001/update.html Official Webpage {{Miss Chinese International TVB 2001 beauty pageants 2001 in Hong Kong Beauty pageants in Hong Kong Miss Chinese International Pageants