HBICtv: Ultra Rich Asian Girls (Chinese: ?????; pinyin: G?ngzh? w? zuìdà) is a Canadian reality television web series, broadcast in Mandarin and English, featuring daughters of affluent Chinese Canadians living in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
The series is created by Kevin K. Li in 2014 and modeled after Lifestyles of Rich and Famous and the House Wives series., produced by Veyron Media, Kevin K. Li and Desmond Chen.
Ultra Rich Asian Girls has two seasons airing on YouTube hosted by four to five girls each season: Chelsea, Coco, Flo.Z, Joy in the first season; Chelsea, Pam, Weymi, Ray, Lim May Yiin, and Diana in the second season. The series were filmed worldwide, from Venice, Milan, Los Angeles, New Mexico to Vancouver.
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Premise
Kevin Li, the creator of HBICtv: Ultra Rich Asian Girls and House My Style, was born and raised on Vancouver's working-class Eastside. During the past decades, he has witnessed the demographics of the city's 400,000-strong Chinese community shift. He grew up with second generation Hong Kong immigrants like himself, then noticed another generation of people flowing into Vancouver - ones who were more affluent with much more money to spend. Inspired by his curiosity of those ultra rich people's lives, Kevin announced a casting call for his series Ultra Rich Asian Girls; and the responses exploded in Canada and Asia.
Ultra Rich Asian Girls features a group of Mandarin-speaking girls, who Li describes as "having fun, spending daddy's money... enjoying life and funding an economy" and follows them as they shop, dine, and attend social functions. The show offers a unique perspective of the lives of ultra rich Asian girls -- specifically examining the new-money class of fuerdai, Chinese "rich second generation", who provoke reactions of both "envy and censure" for their patterns of conspicuous consumption.
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Casting
Season 1
Chelsea Jiang
Chelsea was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She studied in private schools in Beijing from 7 to 14, and graduated from Honour Math program in the University of British Columbia. Her goals are getting into fashion and running her own business - a clothing line called C3 which stands for Choice, Change and Challenge. In the first season of Ultra Rich Asian Girls, Chelsea shared her background, daily lives and her life attitudes.
Flo.Z (Florence)
Florence graduated from the prestigious Master program of Fashion Design school at Istituto Marangoni in Milan. She speaks English, Mandarin, French and a little Italian. She is an entrepreneur and owns her own fashion line called "Flo.Z". She performs her self-reflective and thoughtful side in the series.
Coco Paris
19 year-old Coco is a Taiwanese who aspires to become an entertainer (singing, dancing, and acting). Coco has been studying instruments since 7 years old, she can play the Guzheng, flute, drum and violin.
Joy
Joy is an international student focusing on Fashion Marketing. She walked her first runway show in September 2014, and showed up during the Opening Gala at Vancouver Fashion Week in Summer 2015. Her goal is to become a model.
Season 2
Chelsea Jiang
Chelsea comes back to Ultra Rich Asian Girls Season 2! In this season, she shares her excitement about being pregnant, welcoming her baby and new life.
Weymi
Weymi graduated from Blanche Macdonald with a Fashion Marketing degree. She got half a million dollars financials from her parents and she plans to launch a bilingual luxury-life-style magazine.
Pam
Pam is the Founder of PLY Talent Management, a local modeling agency. She also started a flower business named Concept Floral Vancouver.
Ray
Ray holds dual Finance and Marketing degree from Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia. She's started a company called Rono Marketing Group Ltd.
Diana
Diana is a student at the University of British Columbia and is talented at language - she speaks English, Chinese, Korean and Japanese. She would like to try and bring out a real estate app.
Series list
Season 1
Season 2
Media reviews
Peter Guy of the South China Morning Post called the show a "case study in how not to flaunt wealth," citing the anonymous quote "You show me a highly unequal society and I'll show you a revolution or a police state."
The show Ultra Rich Asian Girls features a cultural drama, girls in the show are not trying to be anyone else, they are trying to be Chinese. Moreover, the show was larger than fashion, wealth and reality TV. "I soon discovered issues of race, culture and gender were also present." said R!c, the editor at Asian Pacific Post. The series targets on the issues of cultural identity and changing trends in Chinese immigration, and the social value in the show "puts a certain group of people on the radar in a different way". (Alden Habacon, Oct 2014)
This series has exploded both in Canada and overseas Asia and has raised social discussion on Asian immigration to North America, and the unique problem of capitals concentration in a communist country like China.
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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