Pai Bing-bing

Pai Bing-bing
Pai in 2010
Born	Pai Yueh-o (白月娥) (1955-05-17) 17 May 1955 (age 68) Keelung, Taiwan
Occupation(s)	Singer, actress, media personality, social activist
Years active	1973–present
Spouse	Ikki Kajiwara ​ ​ (m. 1979; 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
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

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]

Filmography

Film

Television series

References

External links

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)

This page was last edited on 15 April 2024, at 05:59