Once rejected, China embraces beauty pageants
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In 1993, when the Miss World beauty pageant was commanding 1.8 billion viewers worldwide, the front page of the state-run Beijing Youth Daily published an article with a bright red headline reading, “Peking University women reject beauty pageants.”
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