Taiwanese writer Chiung Yao, whose romance novels were wildly popular in the Chinese-speaking world, has died, authorities ...

CNA/AFP via Getty Taiwanese romance novelist Chiung Yao has died in an apparent suicide, according to reports from BBC, The Straights Times and Taiwan News. She was 86. The author was found in ...

Chiung Yao, born Chen Che, the beloved storyteller whose romantic tales enchanted generations of readers, has died at the age ...

The death of acclaimed novelist Chiung Yao has shocked Taiwan and rekindled discussions on elderly support and suicide. The ...

Writing from Taiwan, she shaped her readers’ idea of romantic love with a raft of best sellers, many adapted for the screen. Newborns were named after her characters. By Li Yuan Chiung Yao ...

Chiung Yao was born in the southwestern Chinese city of Chengdu on April 20, 1938, Taiwan's semi-official Central News Agency reported. She fled to Taiwan with her family in 1949 after Chiang Kai ...

She was 86. The author was found in her home in New Taipei City, Taiwan on Dec. 4. Outlets report that Yao's 63-year-old son ...

But in truth, a lot of us learned them from Chiung Yao," Eileen Chow, a Sinologist at Duke University who grew up in Taiwan, said in an interview. "I feel like I'm a poetry professor in some ways ...