Her role in the teen drama catapulted her to fame as a pop idol. She was also a TV host and appeared in films.

“Meteor Garden” Filipino OST singer Josh Santana and Shan Cai’s dubber Cynthia Villanueva paid tribute to Taiwanese actress Barbie Hsu, who died of influenza-induced pneumonia at 48 last ...

She was 48 years old. Tributes poured in from Barbie’s fellow artists and “Meteor Garden” fans for their beloved Shan Cai. Dong Shan Cai was the fierce main character in the series. It follows the ...

Her breakthrough as an actress came in 2001 when she portrayed Dong Shan Cai in Meteor Garden, followed by its sequel the next year. Starring alongside Taiwanese showbiz heavyweights Jerry Yan, Vic ...

She rose to fame in 2001 as the strong-willed yet impoverished Shan Cai in the Taiwanese TV drama Meteor Garden. After an 11-year marriage to Chinese businessman Wang Xiaofei, Hsu spent nearly ...

I got influenced by you since when I started my career. We will always remember you," she wrote. Barbie starred as the feisty Dong Shan Cai in "Meteor Garden." The series follows the life of Shan Cai ...

It was the elder Hsu's role as Dong Shan Cai in Taiwan's popular 2001 television series "Meteor Garden" that made her a star across Asia. "I'm grateful to have been her sister in this lifetime ...

If you are a Batang ‘90s, you lived through the Meteor Garden craze. Every 4:30 PM, Philippine households tuned in to their TV to watch Shan Cai get bullied (and later loved) by the F4 boys. We ...

Meteor Garden didn’t just deliver a love story—it set the standard. Female lead Shan Cai is both enviable and relatable. Despite being an ordinary girl, she finds herself entangled with the elite ...

She became a big part of my teenage life.' Barbie Hsu was a Taiwanese actress, singer, and television host who played Shan Cai in Meteor Garden drama based on the Japanese manga Boys Over Flowers.

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Barbie Hsu, a Taiwanese actress who starred in the popular TV drama “Meteor Garden” that once swept Asia, died after contracting pneumonia triggered by the flu. She was 48.