Taiwan’s Meteor Garden was a series adaptation of a 1990s Japanese comic of the same name. Hsu played Shan Cai, a teenager from a middle-class family who attends an elite private school and ...

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.

In 2001, Hsu rose to fame as the star of “Meteor Garden,” the first live-action adaptation of Japanese manga series “Boys Over Flowers,” alongside boy band F4. A sequel, “Meteor Garden ...

TAIPEI--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. Hsu ...