By Ash Wu Barbie Hsu, a Taiwanese actress ... also called F4 — for “Flower Four” — making “Meteor Garden” an early example of the genre known as idol drama, formulaic but addictive ...

In one episode, Shan Cai also flipped the damsel in distress trope when Dao Ming Si punished the people who wronged her—by tying them to a moving car. She even found her bully, Qian Hui, begging for ...

There, she meets F4, a group of handsome and wealthy boys who essentially rule the school, thanks to the red ... tied to Taiwanese actor Lan Cheng-lung (Blue Lan) and her Meteor Garden co-star ...

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 ...

Barbie Hsu, a Taiwanese ... fame as the star of “Meteor Garden,” the first live-action adaptation of Japanese manga series “Boys Over Flowers,” alongside boy band F4.

Her four male co-stars in Meteor Garden would later form the Taiwanese boyband F4, one of the most popular Mandopop groups of the 2000s. On Monday, F4 member Ken Chu shared a black, empty screen ...

Hsu’s four male Meteor Garden co-stars later formed the Taiwanese boyband F4, which became one of the most popular Mandopop groups in the 2000s. Hsu was married to South Korean singer DJ Koo ...

Her four male co-stars in Meteor Garden would later form the Taiwanese boyband F4, one of the most popular Mandopop groups of the 2000s. On Monday, F4 member Ken Chu shared a black, empty screen as ...