Chiung Yao

Chiung Yao
Born	April 20, 1938 (1938-04-20) (age 73)

Chiung Yao (simplified Chinese: 琼瑶; traditional Chinese: 瓊瑤; pinyin: Qióngyáo; Wade–Giles: Chiung Yao; born 陳喆 on April 20, 1938 in Sichuan, China) is the penname of a popular Taiwan romance novelist. Many of her works have been made and remade into movies and TV series. Films based on her books have been made in the Republic of China (Taiwan) since the 1970s, and were very popular during their time. They often featured Brigitte Lin, Lin Feng-jiao, Charlie Chin and/or Chin Han, who were then collectively known as the "Two Lins and Two Chins".

In the 1990s, TV series adapted from her works continued to be watched in Taiwan and sometimes, in Mainland China. Huan Zhu Ge Ge, or Princess Pearl in English, is the best-known and popular of her recent novels, owing to the popularity of the 1997, 1999 and 2003 TV series.

Life

Both her father (陳致平) and mother (袁行恕) received a good education. She was born in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province. In 1949, along with her family, she moved to Taiwan, where she attended 臺北師範附小 and Taipei Municipal Zhong Shan Girls High School (臺北市立中山女子高級中學). At the age of 16, she published her first novel. During high school she had published over 200 articles. After graduation from high school and failure to enter college, she got married and became a housewife, and at the same time started her writing career. Her first novel, still often read today, is Chuangwai ("Outside the Window").

Chiung Yao's romance novels were very well received in Taiwan when they were first published, and by the 1990s she was also one of the best-selling authors on the mainland.^[1] Her novels feature women who would go through years of intense psychological suffering for the sake of love, with male leads who are often weaker than the female protagonists. Oftentimes the novels are set in the early Republican era, when family dictums were feudalistic and chauvinistic. Princess Pearl is the first of her many novels which ended happily for her female protagonists.

However her romance novels have also been criticized for their melodramatic plotlines and extremely longwinded dialogues^{[by whom?]}.

Works

• 窗外 (1963)
• 幸運草 (1964)
• 六個夢 (1966)
• 煙雨濛濛 (Romance in the Rain) (1964)
• 菟絲花 (1964)
• 幾度夕陽紅 (1966)
• 潮聲 (1966)
• 船 (1966)
• 紫貝殼 (1966)
• 寒煙翠 (1966)
• 月滿西樓 (1967)
• 翦翦風 (1967)
• 彩雲飛 (1968)
• 庭院深深 (1969)
• 星河 (1969)
• 水靈 (1971)
• 白狐 (1971)
• 海鷗飛處 (1972)
• 心有千千結 (1973)
• 一簾幽夢 (Dreams Link) (1974)
• 浪花 (1974)
• 碧雲天 (1974)
• 女朋友 (1975)
• 在水一方 (1975)
• 秋歌 (1976)
• 人在天涯 (1976)
• 我是一片雲 (1976)
• 月朦朧鳥矇矓 (1977)
• 雁兒在林梢 (1977)
• 一顆紅豆 (1978)
• 彩霞滿天 (1979)
• 金盞花 (1979)
• 夢的衣裳 (1980)
• 聚散兩依依 (1980)
• 卻上心頭 (1981)
• 問斜陽 (1981)
• 燃燒吧﹗ 火鳥 (1981)
• 昨夜之燈 (1982)
• 匆匆﹐ 太匆匆 (1982)
• 失火的天堂 (1984)
• 我的故事 (1989)
• 冰兒 (1968)
• 剪不斷的鄉愁 (1989)
• 雪珂 (1990)
• 望夫崖 (1991)
• 青青河邊草 (1992)
• 梅花烙 (1993)
• 鬼丈夫 (1993)
• 水雲間 (1993)
• 新月格格 (1994)
• 煙鎖重樓 (1994)
• 還珠格格 (Princess Pearl I) 《三之一》 陰錯陽差 (1997)
• 還珠格格 《三之二》 水深火熱 (1997)
• 還珠格格 《三之三》 真相大白 (1997)
• 蒼天有淚《三之一》 無語問蒼天 (1997)
• 蒼天有淚《三之二》 愛恨千千萬 (1997)
• 蒼天有淚《三之三》 人間有天堂 (1997)
• 還珠格格第二部《五之一》風雲再起 (1998)
• 還珠格格第二部《五之二》生死相許 (1998)
• 還珠格格第二部《五之三》悲喜重重 (1998)
• 還珠格格第二部《五之四》浪跡天涯 (1998)
• 還珠格格第二部《五之五》紅塵作伴 (1998)
• 還珠格格第三部《三之一》天上人間 (2002)
• 還珠格格第三部《三之二》天上人間 (2002)
• 還珠格格第三部《三之三》天上人間 (2002)

References

1. ^ Kristof, Nicholas D. (February 19, 1991). "A Taiwan Pop Singer Sways the Mainland". The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE4DD153CF93AA25751C0A967958260. Retrieved May 25, 2010. 

External links

• Chiung Yao's official website
• [1]
• Chiung Yao at the Internet Movie Database

Persondata
Name	Chiung, Yao
Alternative names
Short description	Romance novelist
Date of birth	April 20, 1938
Place of birth	Sichuan, China
Date of death
Place of death