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Chang Hui Mei, (Chinese: 張惠妹; pinyin: Zhāng Huì Mèi) (born August 9, 1972), better known as A-mei, is an aboriginal Taiwanese pop singer and is occasionally a songwriter. She was born in the rugged mountains of eastern Taiwan and is the third youngest of nine siblings. A-mei made her music debut in 1996, achieved instant mega commercial success. She has been constantly titled diva in the Mandarin pop music scene, as well as the "Pride of Taiwan" since then, capturing numerous music awards and becoming one of the biggest music sensations within the pop music pantheon of the Chinese-speaking world. (Read more...)
This biography was the Selected Biography from June 2006 to November 2006.
Ang Lee (Chinese: 李安; pinyin: Lǐ Ān) (born October 23, 1954) is an Academy Award-winning Taiwanese film director. Lee won the 2006 Best Director Oscar for Brokeback Mountain (2005).
Many of Ang Lee films have focused on the interactions between modernity and tradition. Some of his films have also had a light-hearted comic tone which marks a break from the tragic historical realism which characterized Taiwanese filmmaking after the end of the martial law period in 1987. Lee's films also tend to draw on deep secrets and internal torment that come to the surface, such as in the gay-themed films The Wedding Banquet (1993) and Brokeback Mountain (2005), the martial arts epic Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director, and the comic book adaptation Hulk (2003). (More...)
Teresa Teng (sometimes spelled Teresa Tang or Teresa Deng; traditional Chinese: 鄧麗君; simplified Chinese: 邓丽君; pinyin: Dèng Lìjūn; Wade-Giles: Teng Li-chün, popular in Japan as テレサ・テン or Teresa Ten) (January 29, 1953 - May 8, 1995) was one of the most famous singers in East Asia, from Taipei, Taiwan.
She was born in Tienyang, a village in Yunlin County, Taiwan to a mainlander family originating from Hebei province. She was educated at Ginling Girls High School, and commenced her professional singing career in 1967 with Universal Records.
She recorded several famous songs, including "When Will You Return?" (simplified Chinese: 何日君再来; pinyin: Hé Rì Jūn Zài Lái). In addition to her Mandarin repertoire, she also recorded songs in the Taiwanese dialect (a variant of Min Nan), Cantonese, Japanese, Indonesian (in 1977) and English.
Jen-Hsun Huang (黃仁勳; pinyin: Huáng Rénxūn) (born February 17, 1963) co-founded NVIDIA Corporation in 1993 and is currently the CEO and President.
Born in Taipei, Taiwan, he spent several years living in Thailand until he was accidentally sent to Oneida Baptist Institute, a Christian boarding reform school in Kentucky. His uncle and aunt, recent immigrants to Tacoma, Washington who spoke little English, unwittingly thought it was a prep school but soon learned otherwise.
Vivian Hsu (Hanzi: 徐若瑄, pinyin: Xú Ruòxuān, Wade-Giles: Hsu Jo-hsuan, Japanese: ビビアン・スー) born March 19, 1975 in Taichung, Taiwan, is a famous singer, actress, and model who has worked mainly in Taiwan and Japan.
The second of three children, Vivian was born 徐淑娟 (py. Xú Shújuān), and used this name until she began modelling nude. Her parents divorced when she was a child. She attended Taipei Jianxing Elementary School and Taipei Shulinguo Junior High School.
She got her start in entertainment after winning first place in a "Talented Beautiful Girl" contest held by Taiwan CTS TV in 1990. At this point, she was working by delivering food on her bicycle, and her customers began to recongise her from her television appearances. The same year she joined a musical duo named 少女隊 (py. Shào nǔ Dùi, en. Girls Team). They released two albums, in 1991 and 1992, then broke up. Following this, Vivian got her start in modelling.
Audrey Tang (Traditional chinese: 唐鳳; born April 18, 1981 as 唐宗漢, formerly known as Autrijus) is a Taiwanese free software programmer, best known for initiating and leading the Pugs project, a joint effort from the Haskell and Perl communities to implement the Perl 6 language.
She is also known for internationalization and localization contributions to several Free Software programs, including SVK, Request Tracker and Slash, as well as heading Traditional Chinese translation efforts for various Open Source-related books.
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Liu Chi-hsiang (劉啟祥; February 3, 1910 - April 27, 1998) is a Taiwanese painter. He was born in Liouying, Tainan, in the period of Japan-ruled Taiwan. Liu study abroad in Japan and went to France later. He study painting by imitate some european oil paint works, especially the impressionism paintings. After his Europe travel, Liu received several art awards in Japan and Taiwan for his oil paint works, and got married in 1937. He lived in Japan until the World War II was end. After the end of war, Liu returned to Taiwan, continued to work on his artistic creations. He moved to Kaohsiung in 1948 and married with his second wife in 1952. Liu spent his old age promoting the art education of Taiwan.
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