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Chiung Yao (born Chen Zhe on April 20, 1938 in Chengdu, Sichuan) is the pen name of a popular Chinese romance novelist based in Taiwan. 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 ''My Fair Princess'' in English, is the best-known and popular of her recent novels, owing to the popularity of the 1998-1999 TV series. == Life == Both her father, Chen Zhiping (), and mother, Yuan Hangshu, () 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 the Affiliated Experimental Elementary School of University of Taipei (台北师范附小|) and Taipei Municipal Zhong Shan Girls High School (s=台北市立中山女子高级中学). 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. 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. However her romance novels and film adaptions have also been criticized for their melodramatic plotlines and extremely long-winded dialogues. In December 2014, Yao sued the producers of the television series ''The Palace: The Lost Daughter'', claiming that the show was plagiarized from her 1993 book ''Meihualao'' (Plum Blossom Scar). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chiung Yao」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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