Qiong Yao (simplified Chinese: 琼瑶; traditional Chinese: 瓊瑤) is a contemporary Chinese writer. She was born in Chengdu, China on April 4th, 1938 as Chen Che (simplified Chinese: 陈喆; traditional Chinese: 陳喆). In 1949, she moved to Taiwan with her father. She has used Xinru (simplified Chinese: 心如) and Fenghuang (simplified Chinese: 凤凰) as pen names.
Xiao Cao is a young orphan living with her cruel aunt and uncle. She has a sisterly bond with her neighbour, Qing Qing, who is being forced into a marriage with a much older man by her older brother. Desperate to escape their unfortunate circumstances, the two girls manage to run away together on the day of Qing Qing's wedding. During their escape they coincidentally meet He Shiwei, a young university student who is also running away from his family due to an arranged marriage. After a few initial misunderstandings the three decide to travel together. However, things become complicated when they encounter the Fu family, and the family matriarch mistakes He Shiwei for her son, Fu Yuankai, who died 10 years ago.
Release Date1992-03-17
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Episode Count42
Vote Count1
Centers around the legend of Princess Huanzhu during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty.
Release Date1998-04-28
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count112
Vote Count41
Release Date2011-07-16
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count98
Vote Count1
Zi Ling is a dreamer who has always been overshadowed by her perfect older sister Lu Ping. For a long time, she's secretly been in love with Chu Lian, who also happens to be Lu Ping's boyfriend. Lu Ping is busy with her own dream of becoming a successful professional dancer and has little time for Chu Lian. Conflict arises when Chu Lian realizes that the one he truly loves is Zi Ling. An unfortunate accident forces a guilt-ridden Chu Lian to enter an unhappy marriage with Lu Ping, but he is unable to forget Zi Ling. Fei Yun Fan is a mysterious, wealthy, and much older man who loves Zi Ling with all his heart. Hoping to move on with her life, Zi Ling gradually reciprocates Fei Yun Fan's affection.
Release Date2007-09-28
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count46
Vote Count2
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count4
Release Date2013-08-06
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count2
Release Date2013-08-06
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Lu Yiping, one of many children of a retired general with nine wives, is banished from her family home due to Wang Xueqin. Driven by resentment, she plots revenge by targeting her stepsister's love interest, He Shuhuan. But as Yiping navigates life with her mother, she unexpectedly finds forgiveness and love through the people she meets, transforming her journey of vengeance into one of self-discovery and healing.
Release Date2001-04-03
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Episode Count49
Vote Count17
Release Date1986-08-11
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count40
Vote Count1
Release Date1994-10-17
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Episode Count26
Release Date1987-05-04
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Episode Count40
Vote Count1
Release Date2004-07-07
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Release Date1990-12-24
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Episode Count24
Vote Count1
5 years after fleeing Korea, Jang Yeojin returns as primary school teacher Lee Seonyoung to teach her ex-husband's autistic daughter - unraveling the household and five years of pain in the process.
Release Date1992-08-17
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Episode Count24
Release Date1990-03-15
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Episode Count19
Release Date1988-01-11
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Episode Count40
TUAN Wan-lu is a naïve and carefree young woman raised in the family of a professor and doted on by her protective older brother and childhood friend KU Yu-lan. Though Wan-lu is deeply attracted to MENG Chiao, their romance is thwarted by the taunts of MENG Chiao’s mother. At the same time, she discovers she is actually the illegitimate daughter of a club hostess. In the face of this double blow, she decides to marry Yu-lan, the one who has always been there for her. Caught between MENG Chiao’s persistent wooing and her own wavering heart, how will Wan-lu will find her way out?
Release Date1977-02-20
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count1
A melodrama depicting the true form of love that one should pursue through the life of a woman who spends her youth struggling due to the fate of first love. The environment surrounding the main character Ji-woo is burdensome, including the betrayal of her fiancé, the death of her younger brother, and her mother who has a mental illness. In the midst of all this, she meets different men and experiences love and conflict, but tries to give up all love for fear of experiencing the failure of her first love again,
Release Date1992-03-29
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Episode Count20
Kao Han (Kenny Bee) and Pan-yun (Xiu-ling Lu) meet for the first time as strangers in a pet shop. It is destiny that they meet a second time and Kao Han takes a chance in this second meeting to pursue Pan-yun. Pan-yun is reluctant to get involved with Kao Han because she still thinks about and love her late-husband and also her late-husband's niece, Ko-hui (Lan-xi), is in love with Kao Han. Reluctantly and unwillingly Pan-yun falls for Kao Han but their love is not so easily obtained.
Release Date1981-02-05
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Taiwanese romance film.
Release Date1965-09-25
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
An early Brigitte Lin Romance.
Release Date1974-12-12
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Taiwanese romance film.
Release Date1978-07-08
DepartmentWriting
JobLyricist
Release Date1979-01-23
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
Brigitte Lin's debut film is a melodrama in which her character gets involved in a socially unacceptable relationship and then forced into marriage.
Release Date1973-08-24
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Vote Count2
The Unforgettable Character is a 1975 Taiwanese romantic drama film directed by Chang Mei-chun and written by Chiung Yao.
Release Date1975-06-05
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count1
Taiwanese romance film.
Release Date1983-03-26
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
A photographer travels with her boyfriend to a seaside village in Penghu. There she strikes up a relationship with a blind man. When they reencounter one another back in Taipei, where he is preparing to undergo an operation to restore his sight, their connection intensifies.
Release Date1981-11-18
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count13
A journalist meets three girls with the same appearance but different identities. Finally, it turns out that these girls are the same person. Why does she use different identities? As the journalist tries to get the answer, he falls into the labyrinth of love.
Release Date1974-04-11
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Thrown out by their masters for disobedience, the two rascals Sun and Ho yearn to be Kung Fu giants. Through a series of incredible adventures, they toughen up and develop into powerhouse Kung Fu Kids, both feared and revered. Watch their fists fly in some of greatest action packed martial arts fighting you'll ever see.
Release Date1980-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
A Taiwanese romantic drama
Release Date1968-08-22
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Release Date1976-11-15
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Meng Yun Lao, a college student originally from Hong Kong, stays at a family friend’s house and falls in love with their daughter, Hai Ni. Hai Ni is born with a serious heart defect. When she is notified that Yun Lao is heading back to Hong Kong, she suffers depression and dies. Yun Lao leads his life in despair until he meets a pop singer Hsiao Mei, who looks exactly like Hai Ni.
Release Date1973-06-30
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Vote Count1
A young lady sacrificed her first love when she discovered her boyfriend had a crush on her younger sister whom she was guilt-ridden of her loss of eyesight since childhood days. Years later, when she found her new love, her relationship with her new boyfriend was again put to test when he saw her blind but beautiful sister...
Release Date1982-01-25
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
After studying drama in the UK, Tan-feng returns to Taiwan to investigate her sister's death. She suspects that her sister committed suicide because her boyfriend, Huai, jilted her. Out of bitterness, Tan-feng begins to plot her revenge by seducing Huai and his childish brother. However, things don't go to plan as she falls crazily in love with the enemy.
Release Date1979-03-24
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
A talented woman painter falls in love with a gallery owner, who is married. His son falls in love with her niece at first sight. The painter gets along well with the gallery owner's grown son and daughter. In order to keep their family united, his son and daughter ask her to withdraw from her love relationship, and she promises to do so to save the gallery owner's marriage.
Release Date1976-10-07
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Brigitte Lin and Charlie Chin star in this Taiwanese drama about a kindergarten teacher who falls in love with a divorcee but leaves him because she thinks he's still in love with his ex-wife.
Release Date1978-02-07
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Story from Qiong Yao's novella collection "Shui Ling"
Release Date1977-07-01
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Release Date1975-07-11
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
When a rich guy met a poor gal and fell in love, his authoritative father disapproved of their relationship owing to his girlfriend’s complicated family background and a retarded brother. The gal was forced to leave but despite of all obstacles, the guy persevered in his effort to win his right for love…
Release Date1976-01-31
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Taiwanese drama film.
Release Date1967-08-25
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
An old granny missed her beloved grand-daughter who was away in America for many years. Little did she know that her grand-daughter had met a mishap and died long ago. In view not to hurt the old granny, her grandson found a girl who was his sister look-a-like to feign her...
Release Date1981-03-28
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Taiwanese drama film.
Release Date1968-05-24
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Adaptation of Chiung Yao's novel "Fire and Rain".
Release Date1965-09-09
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Shaw Production
Release Date1968-01-05
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Taiwanese drama film.
Release Date1967-12-09
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
A girl who weds her love against her wishes repents after their daughter is born and her decision makes her husband leave her. He returns 10 years later to see the child.
Release Date1971-03-21
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Vote Count1
Taiwanese drama film.
Release Date1968-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
A romance that was destined to be, becomes altered by a man's insecurity and a woman's pride. Will their love stand the test of time?
Release Date1967-11-23
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Release Date1965-09-25
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
The son of a wealthy man married a peasant’s daughter against his family’s objection . When he became a successful author, his wife felt belittled and fearsome as their social status gap had widen . Thus she willingly accepted his sister’s proposal to change her appearance so as to match his current status...
Release Date1977-01-01
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Release Date1965-10-29
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Taiwanese drama film.
Release Date1967-02-22
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
A new secretary for the Hsiao family met an office boy on her first day at work. She was puzzled when he asked if she would marry into Hsiao family. Upon understanding the fact that all the Hsiao secretaries had married the Hsiao sons, she assertively assured that she would not follow the trend, they started dating and soon fall in love. Then one day an angry man stormed into the office and revealed the true identity of the office boy. He was actually the youngest son of the Hsiao family…
Release Date1982-01-25
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Vote Count1
Shaw production
Release Date1967-08-02
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count1
Release Date1980-03-29
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
