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Portal:Taiwan/Selected biographies/1 Chang Hui-mei (Chinese: 張惠妹; pinyin: Zhāng Huìmèi; Wade–Giles: Chāng Huì-mèi; born August 9, 1972), also known as A-mei, is an aboriginal Taiwanese pop singer and is occasionally a songwriter. She was born in the rugged mountains of eastern Taiwan and is the third youngest of nine siblings. A-mei made her music debut in 1996, achieved instant mega commercial success. She has been constantly titled diva in the Mandarin pop music scene, as well as the "Pride of Taiwan" since then, capturing numerous music awards and becoming one of the biggest music sensations within the pop music pantheon of the Chinese-speaking world.

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Ang Lee (Chinese: 李安; pinyin: Lǐ Ān) (born October 23, 1954) is an Academy Award-winning Taiwanese film director. Lee won the 2006 Best Director Oscar for Brokeback Mountain (2005).

Many of Ang Lee films have focused on the interactions between modernity and tradition. Some of his films have also had a light-hearted comic tone which marks a break from the tragic historical realism which characterized Taiwanese filmmaking after the end of the martial law period in 1987. Lee's films also tend to draw on deep secrets and internal torment that come to the surface, such as in the gay-themed films The Wedding Banquet (1993) and Brokeback Mountain (2005), the martial arts epic Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director, and the comic book adaptation Hulk (2003).

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Portal:Taiwan/Selected biographies/3 Teresa Teng (sometimes spelled Teresa Tang or Teresa Deng; Chinese: 鄧麗君; pinyin: Dèng Lìjūn; Wade–Giles: Teng Li-chün; Japanese: テレサ・テン Teresa Ten; January 29, 1953 - May 8, 1995) was one of the most famous singers in East Asia.

She was born in Tianyang (田洋村), a village in Yunlin County, Taiwan, to a mainlander family originating from Hebei Province. She was educated at Ginling Girls High School, and commenced her professional singing career in 1967 with Universal Records.

She recorded several famous songs, including "When Will You Return?" (Chinese: 何日君再來; pinyin: Hérì Jūn Zàilái) and "The Moon Represents My Heart" (Chinese: 月亮代表我的心; pinyin: Yuèliàng Dàibiǎo Wǒ de Xīn). In addition to her Mandarin repertoire, she had also recorded songs in the Hokkien, Cantonese, Japanese, Indonesian (in 1977) and English.

Teng, a lifelong sufferer from asthma, died from a severe respiratory attack while on vacation in Thailand in 1995, at the age of 42.

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Jen-Hsun Huang (simplified Chinese: 黄仁勋; traditional Chinese: 黃仁勳; pinyin: Huáng Rénxūn)(born February 17, 1963) is a Taiwanese-American entrepreneur and businessman. Born in Taiwan, Huang spent several years in Thailand before moving to the United States. He grew up in Oregon, graduating from the Oregon State University. He then moved to California where he graduated from the Stanford University.

Huang co-founded Nvidia and serves as president and chief executive officer (CEO) of the graphics-processor company. As of 2008, Forbes listed him as the 61st highest paid CEO in a list of U.S. CEOs.

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Vivian Hsu (Chinese: 徐若瑄; pinyin: Xú Ruòxuān; Wade–Giles: Hsu Jo-hsuan; Japanese: ビビアン・スー; born March 19, 1975 in Taichung, Taiwan) is a famous singer, actress, and model who has worked mainly in Taiwan and Japan.

The second of three children, Vivian was born Hsu Su-chuan (Chinese: 徐淑娟; pinyin: Xú Shújuān), and used this name until she began modeling. Her parents divorced when she was a child. She attended Taipei Jianxing Elementary School and Taipei Shulinguo Junior High School.

She got her start in entertainment after winning first place in a "Talented Beautiful Girl" contest held by Taiwan CTS TV in 1990. At this point, she was working by delivering food on her bicycle, and her customers began to recognize her from her television appearances. The same year she joined a musical duo named Shaonu Dui (Chinese: 少女隊; pinyin: Shàonǔ Dùi; lit. Girls Team). They released two albums, in 1991 and 1992. Following the dissolution of the duo, Vivian got her start in modeling.

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S.H.E is a Taiwanese girl group whose members are Selina Jen, Hebe Tien, and Ella Chen. The name of the group is an alphabetism derived from the first letter of each member's name. Since releasing their first album Girls' Dorm (2001), S.H.E has recorded 10 albums with sales totalling over 4.5 million, and set ticketing records in each of their two concert tours. The group has acted in seven drama series, hosted two variety shows, and contributed 10 songs to six drama soundtracks. S.H.E has endorsed more than 30 companies and products, including Coca-Cola and World of Warcraft. Thanks largely to S.H.E's success, other Taiwanese record labels began forming their own girl groups.

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Portal:Taiwan/Selected biographies/7 Chen Chun-yu (陳君玉) was a Taiwanese songwriter and author born in 1905 at Dadaocheng. He wrote many Hokkien songs such as Thiau Bu Si Tai (跳舞時代) and Siu Be Toa Kang Tiau (想要彈同調), and had served as an officer of the Columbia Record, a Japanese-owned disc company. Chen could speak Mandarin Chinese fluently, he was an introducer of Standard Mandarin in postwar era of Taiwan. Chen died from hepatic cancer on March 4, 1963.

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Portal:Taiwan/Selected biographies/8 Pieter Nuyts or Nuijts (1598 – 11 December 1655) was a Dutch explorer, diplomat, and politician. He was part of a landmark expedition of the Dutch East India Company in 1626–27, which mapped the southern coast of Australia. He became the Dutch ambassador to Japan in 1627, and he was appointed Governor of Formosa in the same year. Later he became a controversial figure because of his disastrous handling of official duties, coupled with rumours about private indiscretions. He was disgraced, fined and imprisoned, before being made a scapegoat to ease strained Dutch relations with the Japanese. He returned to the Dutch Republic in 1637, where he became the mayor of Hulster Ambacht and of Hulst.

He is chiefly remembered today in the place names of various points along the southern Australian coast, named for him after his voyage of 1626–27. During the early 20th century, he was vilified in Japanese school textbooks in Taiwan as an example of a "typical arrogant western bully".

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Liu Chi-hsiang (Chinese: 劉啟祥; pinyin: Liú Qǐxiáng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lâu Khé-siông; February 3, 1910 – April 27, 1998) was a Taiwanese painter born in Liouying, Tainan, in the period of Japan-ruled Taiwan. Liu study abroad in Japan and went to Paris to further his studies. He studied painting by imitating some European oil paint works, especially the impressionism paintings. After his return, Liu received several art awards in Japan and Taiwan for his oil paint works, and got married in 1937. He lived in Japan until the end of World War II and returned to Taiwan afterwards to continue to work on his artistic creations. He moved to Kaohsiung in 1948 and married with his second wife in 1952. Liu spent his old age promoting art education in Taiwan.

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Portal:Taiwan/Selected biographies/10 Tsai Wan-lin (蔡萬霖; November 10, 1924 – September 27, 2004) was a Taiwanese businessman. He was born into a poor farmer's family in Miaoli, and started out in Taipei by selling vegetables and soybeans with his brothers as a child. Tsai did not attend college.

Tsai was first listed by Forbes as a billionaire in 1987. At the peak of his wealth in 1996, Tsai was considered to be the fifth richest person in the world, with a family net worth of US$12.2 billion. At the time of his death in 2004, he was the richest man in Taiwan. He founded the Lin Yuan Group, a large banking and insurance group.

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Wang Jin-ping (Chinese: 王金平; born March 17, 1941) is a Taiwanese politician. He is the President of the Legislative Yuan, analogous to the chairperson of the national congress. He began to serve as a member of the Legislative Yuan in 1999. As one of the leading figures of the Kuomintang, Wang is considered to be soft-spoken and a concilatory figure.

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Jay Chou (traditional Chinese: 周杰倫; simplified Chinese: 周杰伦; pinyin: Zhōu Jiélún; Wade–Giles: Chou Chieh-lun; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Chiu Kia̍t-lûn) (born January 18, 1979) is a Taiwanese musician, singer, producer, actor and director who has won the World Music Award four times. He is well-known for composing all his own songs and songs for other singers. In 1998 he was discovered in a talent contest where he displayed his piano and song-writing skills. Over the next two years, he was hired to compose for popular Chinese singers. Although he was trained in classical music, Chou combines Chinese and classical music from Western culture styles to produce songs that fuse R&B, rock and pop genres, covering issues such as domestic violence, war, and urbanization.

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Teng Yu-hsien (鄧雨賢; Hakka Language: Then Yí-hièn; Hokkien Language: Tēng Ú-hiân; July 21, 1906 - June 11, 1944), a Taiwanese Hakka musician, was born in Longtan, Taoyuan of Japanese-ruled Taiwan. He is noted for composing many well-known Hokkien songs, such as the Bang Chhun Hong (望春風) and Goat Ia Chhiu (月夜愁). He made a representative work U Ia Hoe (雨夜花) in 1934, a song that depicts the mood of a fictional pathetic woman. Between 1934 and 1937, Teng composed many other songs include the Moa Bin Chhun Hong (滿面春風) and Su Kui Hong (四季紅). He died from lung disease and heart disorder at Jhudong, Hsinchu.

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