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Chinese version ( )New York Times (2024-12-8): Influential Taiwanese romance novelist Chiung Yao helped shape the idea of romantic love there for generations; In Chiung Yao's (1938-2024) novels, love transcends everything else. It's worth giving up one's family, career, social status, even — literally — one's limbs (in novel "一簾幽夢", 1973). Radio Free Asia (2024-12-5): Chiung Yao offered a glimpse of a romantic world in which dreams of love were the main point of being alive. A professor at Fudan University of China said that Qiong "portrayed pure, sincere, passionate, gentle, and firm love. It was a beautiful belief that coexisted with life". China's Global Times (2024-12-6, 2024-12-4): Several generations on both sides of the Taiwan Straits have been influenced by Qiong Yao (Chiung Yao), who is dubbed " a cultural symbol of an era" by The Global Times. Radio Free Asia (Washington D.C.): Chiung Yao's work was "hugely influential"; Chiung said she always believe in love and idealism. New York Times: "Believing in love was Chiung Yao's lifelong mission". Both her first love and first husband are poor intellectuals. (BBC, 2024-12-4: Top Chinese language novelist, arguably the world's most popular Chinese language romance novelist. AFP, 2024-12-4: wildly popular in the Chinese-speaking world )
However, young adults in today's Taiwan are, mostly, no longer "Chinese Romeo and Juliet".
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South China Morning Post (2024-8-6) : Taiwan has one of the highest divorce rates in Asia. United Daily (Taiwan, 2023-12-17): The divorce rate is rising steadily. 34.75 % divorced within five years of their marriage.
New York Times, 2021-11-18 ("What makes people happy" ): Most world people in a Pew Research Center survey said that family made them the happiest, such as the Australians (56%), New Zealanders (55%), Americans (49%), English(46%), Swedish, Italians, Canadians etc ranked family first, their percentages are about 3-4 times of that (15%) of Taiwanese, the % in Singapore and Japan is about 2 times of that in Taiwan. Taiwanese ranked "Material well-being" ( US Google AI Overview, 2025-1-3 : a person's standard of living, which includes their financial situation, the ability to afford necessities, and their satisfaction with their material conditions ) above family. According to Wikipedia (2022-7-11, 2022-1-23, 2021-11-28): The number of crude Divorce Rate in Taiwan is higher than that in most countries of Asia & Pacific, such as Vietnam, Mongolia, Thailand, Malaysia, Japan, Singapore, S. Korea, Sri Lanka, Australia, New Zealand, etc. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divorce_demography ). Mainland China's divorce rate was worse than Taiwan's. Telegraph (UK, telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/8714097/China-tries-to-stop-women-marrying-for-money-rather-than-love.html) reported that in mainland China, "Most pretty girls now try to trade on their beauty. It is an unhealthy trend", With divorce rates soaring, and widespread worries about a new culture of hyper-materialism, the Chinese government is now trying to stop women marrying for money.p
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