Pai Bing-bing

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In this Chinese name, the family name is Pai.
Pai Bing-bing
Pai Ping Ping (cropped).JPG
Born
Pai Yueh-o (白月娥)

(1955-05-17) 17 May 1955 (age 66)
Keelung, Taiwan
OccupationSinger, actress, media personality, social activist
Years active1973–present
Spouse(s)
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(m. 1979; div. 1981)​
ChildrenPai Hsiao-yen
Chinese name
Chinese白冰冰
Pai Yueh-o
Chinese白月娥
Pai Hsueh-hua
Chinese白雪嬅

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[]

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

Onsen meme[]

In early 2021, a self-shot video of Pai from 2019 where she bathes at an onsen became a internet meme that was used in a bait-and-switch contexts similar to rickrolling. The meme spread during the height of the controversy between YouTubers  [zh] and  [zh] when the former claimed to have found a remedy for gallstones and the latter, who is a doctor, refuted those claims. Pai expressed amusement at the meme, saying that she is fine with the video as long as it's not defamatory.[3][4] In one instance, a video that showed someone scanning a COVID-19 contact tracing QR code, only to be led to Pai's onsen video, was widely circulated and criticized.[5]

Filmography[]

Film[]

Year English title Original title Role Notes
1978 Karate Wars カラテ大戦争
1983 Chinese Magic 中國法術
1990 The Hilarious Army 大笑兵團
 [zh] 鬼出嫁 Hua
Seventh Moon 七月鬼門開
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[]

Year English title Chinese title Role Notes
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[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: 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. Friday 12 March 2010. Retrieved 6 September 2011.
  3. ^ 莊雅婷 (26 February 2021). "泡裸湯片被網瘋傳　白冰冰「首發聲」點名陽帆" [Naked bathing video goes viral online, Pai Bing Bing speaks out, calls out Yang Fan] (in Chinese). TVBS. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  4. ^ 李紹綾 (25 February 2021). "釣魚影片「冰冰姐泡湯」瘋傳 白冰冰發聲回應了！" [Fishing video "Pai Bing Bing at the onsen" goes viral, Pai Bing Bing responds!] (in Chinese). Liberty times. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  5. ^ "還在鬧！網掃實名制QRcode 跑出「白冰冰泡湯」影片" [Still messing around! When the contact tracing QR Code, the Pai Bing Bing onsen video showed up instead] (in Chinese). Liberty Times. 26 May 2021. Retrieved 3 August 2021.

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