Her breakthrough as an actress came in 2001 when she portrayed Dong Shan Cai in Meteor Garden, followed by its sequel the next year. Starring alongside Taiwanese showbiz heavyweights Jerry Yan, Vic ...

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

“Meteor Garden” Filipino OST singer Josh Santana and Shan Cai’s dubber Cynthia Villanueva paid tribute to Taiwanese actress Barbie Hsu, who died of influenza-induced pneumonia at 48 last ...

She was 48 years old. Tributes poured in from Barbie’s fellow artists and “Meteor Garden” fans for their beloved Shan Cai. Dong Shan Cai was the fierce main character in the series. It follows the ...

She rose to fame in 2001 as the strong-willed yet impoverished Shan Cai in the Taiwanese TV drama Meteor Garden. After an 11-year marriage to Chinese businessman Wang Xiaofei, Hsu spent nearly ...

I grew up watching Taiwanese dramas with my mom, so it was no surprise that she introduced me to the hit show Meteor Garden in 2001 ... Barbie Hsu stars as Shan Cai, the female lead. The author as ...

It was the elder Hsu's role as Dong Shan Cai in Taiwan's popular 2001 television series "Meteor Garden" that made her a star across Asia. "I'm grateful to have been her sister in this lifetime ...

If you are a Batang ‘90s, you lived through the Meteor Garden craze. Every 4:30 PM, Philippine households tuned in to their TV to watch Shan Cai get bullied (and later loved) by the F4 boys. We ...

Meteor Garden didn’t just deliver a love story—it set the standard. Female lead Shan Cai is both enviable and relatable. Despite being an ordinary girl, she finds herself entangled with the elite ...

Barbie Hsu’s portrayal of Shan Cai in Meteor Garden played a significant role in the drama’s success in the Philippines, making it one of the most well-loved Asian series of its time. Her performance ...