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Is Chiung Yao, author of My Fair Princess, the queen of bad romance?
The Chinese world’s most famous romance novelist might have attracted controversy for her love-above-all stories, but she also sparked a love for the Chinese language.
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Chiung Yao, known for her romance novels such as My Fair Princess, died on Dec 4 at the age of 86.
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At a friend’s home many summers ago, a few of us children spent the afternoon building a little Lego house surrounded by plastic trees and flowers.
We called it Han Yan Villa.
