King-Yao, then a young girl at Maryknoll Sisters' School - now called Marymount Primary School - recalls her mother commenting that people would rather buy a designer bag than a piece of art.

Her style was so distinct that people’s overly sentimental remarks could draw comments like “You’re so Chiung Yao!” On both sides of the Taiwan Strait, many women bear “Chiung Yao names ...

Chiung Yao asked young people "not to give up on life easily" and to confront death only when "you live until 86 or 87". She asked her followers not to be sad for her. She has not been active in ...