[1] Early in 1960 the Space Mass Communication sponsored the Taipei beauty contest and named as "Miss China".
The first title holder of 1960 was Janet Lin Chin-Yi who competed at the first annual Miss International 1960 in Long Beach, United States.
[3] The 1965 pageant was not held due to financial difficulties and controversies related to the personal lives of contestants.
Personnel representing the Miss Universe contest visited Taiwan in 1984, to convince the government to resume the Miss China pageant, as mainland China refused to participate in such a "capitalistic activity".
The Kuomintang government's official position through 1986 discouraged beauty pageants, citing the austerity policy in force at the time and its focus on the anti-communist war effort.