They went on to have a successful career as TV hosts. Hsu is best-known for her work on Meteor Garden, a TV adaptation of a 1990s Japanese comic of the same name. The actress played Shancai ...

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. It became a massive hit across Asia ...

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 ...

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.

The family had been vacationing in Japan. In “Meteor Garden,” an adaptation of the Japanese manga “Boys Over Flowers,” Ms. Hsu played Dong Shan Cai, a naïve yet headstrong student from a ...

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 ...