Pai Bing-bing

Pai Bing-bing
Background information
Chinese name 白冰冰 (traditional)
Chinese name 白冰冰 (simplified)
Pinyin Bái Bīngbīng (Mandarin)
Born 白月娥
(1955-05-17) 17 May 1955
Keelung, Taiwan
Occupation Singer, actress, media personality, social activist
Years active 1973-present
Spouse(s)
Ikki Kajiwara
(m. 1979; div. 1981)
Children Pai Hsiao-yen

Pai Hsueh-hua (born 17 May 1955), born Pai Yueh-o, better known by her stage name Pai Bing-bing, is a Taiwanese singer, actress, media personality and social activist.

Life and career

Born to an impoverished family in Keelung, Pai dropped out of formal education in her teenage years. In 1973 she won a prize in a singing contest held by Taiwan Television and following this success she pursued a career in the local entertainment business. In 1975 she moved to Japan to study singing and acting. At this time she had a relationship with Japanese comics writer Ikki Kajiwara and they later married. Their daughter Pai Hsiao-yen was born in 1980 but their marriage was quickly dissolved the next year after Kajiwara engaged in an extramarital affair and committed domestic violence. Pai Bing-bing had to return to Taiwan and raised Hsiao-yen as a single mother. Since mid-1980s, Pai has been gaining popularity for her bantering style, becoming one of the best-known Taiwanese entertainers. Richard Lloyd-Parry of The Independent described Pai as the "Cilla Black of Taiwan".[1] Besides her entertainment career, Pai also had significant investments in local catering service industry.

In 1997 Pai Hsiao-yen, then 16 years old, was kidnapped, raped, tortured and murdered. This event subsequently made the elder Pai into a social activist to advocate the use of death penalty; Pai founded the Swallow Foundation and chaired it to date to advocate capital punishment as well as provide legal support to local crime victims. Lloyd-Parry described the attention around the murder of Pai's daughter as giving Pai "a greater, though more terrible, fame than she had as an entertainer."[1] In 2010, in the wake of the global anti-capital punishment movement, Pai successfully held a protest against former ROC Minister of Justice Wang Ching-feng, resulting in Wang's resignation and the resumption of executions in the Republic of China.[2]

Filmography

Film

Year English title Original title Role Notes
1978Karate Warsカラテ大戦争
1983Chinese Magic中國法術
1990The Hilarious Army大笑兵團
Ghost Married鬼出嫁Hua
Seventh Moon七月鬼門開
1992Kung-Fu Kids沒大沒小Nanny Gu
1994Lonely Hearts Club寂寞芳心俱樂部Chen Chunnu
1997Yours and Mine我的神經病
2010Comedy Makes You Cry拍賣春天Lingling
2016Like Life人生按個讚Hsu Chuan-chenalso co-writer, supervising producer

Television series

Year English title Chinese title Role Notes
1994The Seven Heroes and Five Gallants七俠五義Gu Atao
2006Emerald on the Roof屋顶上的绿宝石Fang Min
2007Love at First Fight武十郎Lei Laohu
I Shall Succeed我一定要成功Chen Suchun

References

  1. 1 2 Lloyd-Parry, Richard. "Celebrity killings stir rage in Taiwan". The Independent. Sunday July 13, 1997. Retrieved on December 12, 2009.
  2. ↑ "Taiwan justice minister resigns over death penalty". BBC. Friday March 12, 2010. Retrieved on September 6, 2011.
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