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A prolific author and screenwriter, she shaped Chinese-language literature and cinema with her tales of love, loss, and forbidden relationships. Celebrated romance novelist Chen Che, better known by her pen name Chiung Yao, died Wednesday at her home in Taiwan, according to local media. She was 86. A prolific author, Chiung was one of the most popular and best-known Chinese-language writers of the mid-20th Century. Many of her novels, including “My Fair Princess” and “Romance in the Rain” were adapted into successful films and dramas in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the Chinese mainland. Chiung’s son, Chen Chung-wei, confirmed that she died by suicide to TVBS Wednesday afternoon. In her final Facebook post, written before her death and published by her secretary as per her wishes, Chiung wrote, “I am a ‘spark,’ and I did my best to burn brightly.” Born in Chengdu, in southwestern China’s Sichuan province, in 1938, Chiung’s family moved to Taiwan in 1949. She began publis
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