Chiung Yao

Chen Che (; 20April 19384December 2024), better known by her pen name Chiung Yao (), was a Taiwanese writer and producer. The name ''Chiung Yao'' is taken from the ''Classic of Poetry'', where it means "splendid pure jade". Born in Chengdu, Sichuan, her family moved to Taiwan in 1949 after the Communist takeover.

A leading figure in Chinese romance novels, she rose to fame with ''Outside the Window'' (1963), which led to her acquaintance and romantic involvement with Ping Hsin-tao, the owner of the . After both divorced their original spouses, they married and co-founded several companies to adapt Chiung Yao's works into films and TV dramas. Her novels have been adapted into more than 100 films and TV dramas, which are popular in the Chinese-speaking world as well as Southeast Asia. The BBC describes her as "the world's most popular Chinese language romance novelist" and her TV drama ''My Fair Princess'' (1998) as "the most popular Chinese-language drama shows of all time". Provided by Wikipedia