Li Yuan, better known by his pen name Hsiao Yeh, is a Taiwanese novelist and screenwriter.
12 Facts About Hsiao Yeh
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Hsiao Yeh's father was a statistician and his mother taught writing at National Taiwan Normal University, later becoming a journalist.
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Hsiao Yeh published his first book in 1974, and was hired by the Central Motion Picture Corporation in 1981.
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In 1986, Hsiao Yeh won his first Golden Horse Award for Best Original Screenplay.
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Hsiao Yeh stated in 2001 that, while he was at CMPC, many of his superiors came from military backgrounds and films were often made according to Kuomintang-led governmental directives.
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Shortly after starting May Productions, Hsiao Yeh won the 1990 Golden Horse Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
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Hsiao Yeh worked for Taiwan Television from 2001 to 2004 and served as general manager of Chinese Television System from 2006 to 2008.
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Hsiao Yeh contributed to the book Touring Taiwan, released in 2008.
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Shortly after Tsai Ing-wen founded Thinking Taiwan in August 2012, Hsiao Yeh was one of the first invited to join.
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In March 2013, Hsiao Yeh participated in an anti-nuclear demonstration planned by the Green Citizens' Action Alliance and held around the Presidential Office.
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Hsiao Yeh was largely supportive of the Sunflower Student Movement in 2014.
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Hsiao Yeh joined the 2018 Taipei mayoral campaign of political independent Ko Wen-je as campaign director.