Inside the Miss N.Y. Chinese Beauty Pageant
August 16, 2007
This year’s Miss New York Chinese beauty pageant gave full access to The New York Times writer Brooke Hauser and she responds with “The Rainbow Runway,” a portrait that captures the pathos, rumors, scandals, contradictions of the pageant and how ethnic “beauty contests” reflect the idealized, sometimes skewed dreams of their communities. C.N. Le of Asian-Nation responds with a piece on the pressure to succeed in Asian America. (And don’t miss the NYT’s Miss N.Y. Chinese beauty pageant slideshow.)
