Pai Bing-bing

Taiwanese actress and singer

In this Chinese name, the family name is  Pai.

Pai Bing-bing

Pai in 2010

Born|

Pai Yueh-o (白月娥)

(1955-05-17) 17 May 1955 (age 70)

Keelung, Taiwan

Occupation(s)| Singer, actress, media personality, social activist
Years active| 1973–present
Spouse|

Ikki Kajiwara

(m. 1978; div. 1981)​

Children| Pai Hsiao-yen
Chinese name
Chinese| 白冰冰
| Transcriptions

Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin| Bái Bīngbīng
Wade–Giles| Pai Ping-ping
Pai Yueh-o
Chinese| 白月娥
| Transcriptions

Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin| Bái Yuèé
Wade–Giles| Pai Yüeh-o
Pai Hsueh-hua
Traditional Chinese| 白雪嬅
| Transcriptions

Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin| Bái Xuěhuá
Wade–Giles| Pai Hsüeh-hua

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

## Life and career

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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.[citation needed] 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.[citation needed]

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 Minister of Justice Wang Ching-feng, resulting in Wang's resignation and the resumption of executions in Taiwan.[2]

## Filmography

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### Film

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Year  | English title  | Original title  | Role  | Notes

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

### Television series

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Year  | English title  | Chinese title  | Role  | Notes

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

## References

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

## External links

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pai Bing-bing.

* Bing-Bing Pai at IMDb
* The Swallow Foundation (in Traditional Chinese)
* Pai Bing-bing Official blog (Traditional Chinese)

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* Hsu Wei-ning (2024)

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