Chiung Yao

Chiung Yao was a Taiwanese novelist, screenwriter, and television producer whose romantic fiction became the basis for popular film and television dramas.

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My Fair Princess: A Chinese television series about a spirited young woman who becomes entangled with the Qing imperial court. This hit series brought her storytelling to a new generation through a screenplay she wrote.
Romance novel: A novel centered on the development of a romantic relationship and its emotional consequences. Her novels belong to this genre, though their melodrama and settings give them a distinctive style.
Ping Hsin-tao: A Taiwanese publisher and media executive who founded Crown Publishing and married Chiung Yao. He published her books and helped build the media enterprise behind many adaptations.
Qiong Yao plagiarism controversy: A public dispute over alleged unauthorized use of Chiung Yao’s work in the television series The Palace. The dispute brought her forceful defense of copyright into public view.
Romance in the Rain: A Taiwanese television drama adapted from Chiung Yao’s novel, set in Republican-era China. It is a prominent television adaptation of her fiction and screenwriting.
Melodrama: A dramatic mode that heightens emotion through intense conflicts, moral contrasts, and reversals. Her stories use heightened feeling and dramatic reversals to drive romantic plots.
Crown Publishing: A Taiwanese publishing house founded by Ping Hsin-tao in 1954. The company published much of her fiction and became closely associated with her career.
The Palace: A Chinese historical romance television series that became the subject of a copyright dispute with Chiung Yao. Its contested similarities to her script sparked a major legal and media confrontation.
The Prince of Han: A 1960s Taiwanese film adapted from a Chiung Yao novel. Early film adaptations established a screen audience for her romantic fiction.
Republican China: The period of Chinese history from the 1911 revolution to the establishment of the People’s Republic in 1949. Many stories draw on this era’s social upheavals and changing family conventions.