Writing from Taiwan, she shaped her readers’ idea of romantic love with a raft of best sellers, many adapted for the screen.

Chiung Yao, a romance writer who published best-selling novels in the Chinese-speaking world, died on Wednesday. She was 86. She died at her home in New Taipei City, Taiwan. She began writing in the ...

A prolific author and screenwriter, she shaped Chinese-language literature and cinema with her tales of love, loss, and ...