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

Barbie Hsu, a Taiwanese actress who starred in the popular TV drama “Meteor Garden” that once swept across Asia ... in particular her high-profile divorce from Chinese businessman Wang Xiaofei. Her ...

Taiwanese actor Barbie Hsu, who rose to fame across East Asia as the romantic lead in the 2001 television drama "Meteor Garden," has died of influenza at 48, her sister said Monday.

But it was Meteor Garden, a TV adaptation of a 1990s Japanese comic, that turned Hsu into a star whose fame stretched beyond Chinese entertainment. In the drama, Hsu played Shancai, a teen from a ...