Cui Xiao-ping in high-heeled shoes and Qipao

Tsui Hsiao-ping (; 1922/23 – 11 March 2017) was a Taiwanese radio personality and director. Tsui was born in

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, China as the daughter of a postal worker. Her family was forced to move away from their home due to the

Second Sino-Japanese War The Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) or War of Resistance (Chinese term) was a military conflict that was primarily waged between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. The war made up the Chinese theater of the wider Pacific Th ...

. She studied at Sichuan's Sixth Middle School in

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and later attended National Drama College. Tsui arrived in Taiwan as a member of the touring Shanghai Audience Company in late 1947. When the Kuomintang retreated to Taiwan in 1949, Tsui found it impossible to return to China. Subsequently, she began working for China Broadcasting Company in Taiwan. Her ''Broadcast Drama'', on the air weekly on Sunday evenings, became immensely popular. In 1968, Tsui was arrested and charged with colluding with the

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. Sentenced to fourteen years imprisonment, she was released in 1977. In 2000, she was honored with the

Golden Bell Award The Golden Bell Awards () is an annual Taiwanese television and radio production award presented in October or November each year by the Bureau of Audiovisual and Music Industry Development, a division of Taiwan's Ministry of Culture. It is the ...

for Special Lifetime Achievement. The next year, Tsui published a memoir. Over the course of her career, Tsui taught at

National Taiwan University of Arts National Taiwan University of Arts (NTUA; ) is a university in Banqiao District, New Taipei City, Taiwan. It is the oldest and most prestigious art university in Taiwan. History National Taiwan University of Arts (NTUA) was established as the N ...

Shih Hsin University Shih Hsin University (SHU; ) is a private university known for its mass communication departments in Taiwan, founded in Muzha, Taipei in 1956. SHU ranked 22nd overall among top 30 liberal arts Universities in Taiwan in 2020 and secured the top ...

, and

National Taiwan College of Performing Arts The National Taiwan College of Performing Arts (NTCPA; ) is a public college located in Taipei, Taiwan. History It was known as Fu Sheng (Fu Xing Ju Xiao) or Lu Kwan Peking Opera school. Although called a Peking Opera school, students actually ...

. Tsui died in 2017, aged 94, at

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in Taipei.

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* * 1920s births 2017 deaths Taiwanese radio presenters Taiwanese women radio presenters Radio directors Taiwanese people from Shandong Chinese Civil War refugees Academic staff of Shih Hsin University Taiwanese prisoners and detainees Prisoners and detainees of Taiwan Taiwanese memoirists Taiwanese women writers Writers from Jinan Women memoirists Women radio directors Academic staff of the National Taiwan University of Arts {{Taiwan-writer-stub