Chi-Pao also known in Mandarin Chinese as qipao (旗袍) or the cheongsam is a body-hugging one-piece Chinese dress for women, and Mandarin gown in English. The stylish and often tight-fitting cheongsam or qipao (chi-pao) that is best known today was created in the 1920s in Shanghai and made fashionable by socialites and upper class women in China.
Below are the 48 most amazing chi-pao wore by modern Chinese beauties:
1. Liu Tao

2. Zhou Xun

3. Ni Ni

4. Li Bingbing

5. Hu Ke

6. Jiang Qinqin

7. Li Xiaoran

8. Liu Yifei

9. Yang Mi

10. Zhao Wei

11. Chen Hao

12. Sun Li

13. Twins

14. Fan Bingbing

15. Ruby Lin

16. Han Xue

17. Maggie Cheung

18. Zhang Ziyi

19. Chen Shu

20. Hu Jing

21. Angie Chiu

22. Huang Shengyi

23. Hsu Chi

24. Tao Hong

25. Michelle Monique Reis

26. Yao Chen

27. Xiao Qiang

28. Carina Lau

29. Chen Hong

30. Cecilia Yip

31. Cherrie Ying

32. Gigi Lai

33. Anita Yuen

34. Yuan Quan

35. Yan Danchen

36. Cecilia Cheung

37. Xu Jinglei

38. Yang Ruoxi

39. Mei Ting

40. Huang Yi

41. Li Xiang

42. Ewong

43. Irene Wan

44. Vivian Chow

45. Joey Yung

46. Ren'e Liu

47. Dong Xuan

48. Annie

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