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Standard Mandarin. Hanyu Pinyin. Lín Qīngxiá. Yue: Cantonese. Jyutping. lam4 cing1 haa4. Brigitte Lin Ching-hsia ( Chinese: 林青霞; pinyin: Lín Qīngxiá; born 3 November 1954) is a Taiwanese actress. She is regarded as an icon of Chinese language cinema for her extensive and varied roles in both Taiwanese and Hong Kong films.
Lin Ching-hsuan was born in Kaohsiung to an ordinary peasant family. Being interested in writing, he decided to become a writer since he was only eight years old. With his talent in writing, he started to publish articles in newspapers. Lin won the first prize in the Tainan writing competition during his high school days.
Hsiao Bi-khim[ note 1] ( Chinese: 蕭美琴; pinyin: Xiāo Měiqín; Wade–Giles: Hsiao1 Mei3-ch'in2; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Siau Bí-khîm; born Bi-khim Louise Hsiao[ 1] on 7 August 1971) is a Taiwanese politician and diplomat. She is the incumbent vice president of the Republic of China (Taiwan) after winning the 2024 presidential election, and is ...
Charlie Chin Hsiang-lin ( Chinese : 秦祥林; pinyin : Qín Xianglín; Jyutping : Ceon4 coeng4 lam4) is a Taiwanese actor, born on May 19, 1948 in Nanking and grew up in Hong Kong. Throughout the twenty-four years of his acting career, Chin had participated in over one hundred films. As a member of the "Two Qins, Two Lins" (二秦二林 ...
Swordsman II. Swordsman II, also known as The Legend of the Swordsman, is a 1992 Hong Kong wuxia film very loosely adapted from Louis Cha 's novel The Smiling, Proud Wanderer. It was the second part of a trilogy: preceded by The Swordsman (1990) and followed by The East Is Red (1993). Directed by Ching Siu-tung, [ 1] Swordsman II starred Jet Li ...
Hanyu Pinyin. Sūn Xiángzhōng} Chin Han (秦漢; born 24 April 1946), is a Taiwanese actor whose birth name is Sun Siang-chong (孫祥鐘), and got his first stage name Kang Kai (康凱) from Li Han-Hsiang (李翰祥) at the beginning of his acting career. He changed his stage name to Sun Ge (孫戈) during the shooting of Five Brothers from ...
Lin ( [lǐn]; Chinese: 林; pinyin: Lín) is the Mandarin romanization of the Chinese surname written 林, which has many variations depending on the language and is also used in Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Myanmar, Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia .
Tâi-lô. Luā Tshing-tik. Lai Ching-te ( Chinese: 賴清德; born 6 October 1959), also known as William Lai, is a Taiwanese politician and former physician who is currently serving as the 8th president of the Republic of China since May 2024. He is the third member from the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) to assume the office of president.