https://www.scmp.com/rss/330810/feed The latest news on Jay Chou, Taiwanese singer-songwriter, actor, director and businessman, including music and film news. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Born to an Australian dad and a Chinese-Korean mum, and raised in Taiwan, Hannah Quinlivan married the “King of Mando-pop” Jay Chou in a fairy tale wedding in 2015, and is currently pregnant with their third child. Despite her humble beginnings as an aspiring starlet and retail store worker, Quinlivan has proven time and again that she’s more than just another celebrity wife. Also known as Jen Wu and Kun Ling, the Taiwanese-Australian talent has already built an impressive resume and become a... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/celebrity/article/3165807/who-hannah-quinlivan-jay-chous-pregnant-taiwanese?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/celebrity/article/3165807/who-hannah-quinlivan-jay-chous-pregnant-taiwanese?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 04 Feb 2022 05:56:17 +0000 1.5/5 stars A world champion gamer (played by Tsao Yu-ning) with no prior driving experience is recruited by a professional rally team in Nezha, Jem Chen Yi-xian’s frustratingly derivative motor racing drama. Not since Armageddon sent roughnecks into space, rather than teach trained astronauts how to drill a hole, has such an implausible plot device been embraced so enthusiastically. Produced by Taiwanese pop icon Jay Chou Jie-lun and starring his wife, Hannah Quinlivan, as the championship’s... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3146269/nezha-movie-review-taiwanese-racing-drama-starring-hannah?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3146269/nezha-movie-review-taiwanese-racing-drama-starring-hannah?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 25 Aug 2021 08:15:21 +0000 This article originally appeared on ABACUS When people are looking to stream the latest surprise album from Beyoncé, they don't have to choose between Spotify or Apple Music. But in China, listening to some of the world’s most popular musicians requires using one of Tencent’s three dominant music streaming apps. One of those artists is Jay Chou, a Taiwanese singer who’s been immensely popular in mainland China for nearly two decades. The pop idol hailed as the “King of Asian Pop” has been the... https://www.scmp.com/abacus/tech/article/3037153/lawsuit-over-pop-star-jay-chou-speaks-volumes-about-chinas-streaming?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/abacus/tech/article/3037153/lawsuit-over-pop-star-jay-chou-speaks-volumes-about-chinas-streaming?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 11 Nov 2019 02:00:11 +0000 When people are looking to stream the latest surprise album from Beyoncé, they don't have to choose between Spotify or Apple Music. But in China, listening to some of the world’s most popular musicians requires using one of Tencent’s three dominant music streaming apps. One of those artists is Jay Chou, a Taiwanese singer who’s been immensely popular in mainland China for nearly two decades. The pop idol hailed as the “King of Asian Pop” has been the subject of a lawsuit between Tencent and... https://www.scmp.com/tech/lawsuit-over-pop-star-jay-chou-speaks-volumes-about-chinas-streaming-war/article/3036699?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/lawsuit-over-pop-star-jay-chou-speaks-volumes-about-chinas-streaming-war/article/3036699?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 11 Nov 2019 02:00:09 +0000 Whenever a bubble tea shop becomes Instagram-trendy in China, you can count on scalpers to be there reselling a drink for many times its retail price. Like paid line-holders in the States, scalpers—known in Chinese as 黄牛 (huangniu), or “yellow cattle”—have become ubiquitous at limited-edition pop-ups, from White Rabbit bubble tea stands to just regular bubble tea stands that have inexplicably become famous. And the latest shop to be besieged by these “yellow cattle” is a Taiwanese chain that was... https://www.scmp.com/food/jay-chou-machi-machi-bubble-tea/article/3030936?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/food/jay-chou-machi-machi-bubble-tea/article/3030936?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 30 Sep 2019 08:01:37 +0000 Twenty years on, Jay Chou is still going strong. The Taiwanese pop sensation broke sales records—and a music streaming site—this week after his latest single, “Won’t Cry,” was downloaded more than eight million times. The track was so popular that Chinese streaming giant QQ Music crashed momentarily from the traffic spike on Monday, when the song came out. But the schmaltzy ballad and its music video have also garnered criticism in China for being out of touch with the times. The video, which... https://www.scmp.com/culture/jay-chou-wont-cry-chinese-song/article/3029701?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/culture/jay-chou-wont-cry-chinese-song/article/3029701?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 20 Sep 2019 09:45:18 +0000 Despite breaking the Chinese internet with a new hit song, Taiwan’s “King of Asian Pop” Jay Chou has received some heat for promoting “sexist” values with a music video that features the female lead sacrificing for her boyfriend.  The star’s latest single, Won’t Cry, has sold millions of digital copies and topped charts in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan hours after its release on Monday night.  But for some fans, the song depicts an ancient and tired archetype of a self-sacrificing woman... https://www.scmp.com/arts/some-chinese-think-taiwanese-singer-jay-chous-new-song-sexist/article/3027662?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/arts/some-chinese-think-taiwanese-singer-jay-chous-new-song-sexist/article/3027662?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 17 Sep 2019 10:14:45 +0000 The first time Wang Yan was told he looked like Taiwanese pop star Jay Chou, he didn’t even know who the singer was. It was 2005, the peak of Chou’s career. Wang was a 16-year-old high school student in Jiangsu province. One day, he received a text message from an anonymous student that read, “I love you, Jay Chou. Please be my boyfriend!” “I had no idea who Jay Chou was at the time,” Wang recalls. “I didn’t understand why that girl was calling me by that name.” After learning more about Chou,... https://www.scmp.com/culture/becoming-jay-chou-life-chinese-celebrity-impersonator/article/3000616?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/culture/becoming-jay-chou-life-chinese-celebrity-impersonator/article/3000616?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 28 Jan 2019 06:03:38 +0000