Bowie Tsang Po Yee (; born 21 February 1973) is a Taiwanese television host, singer, actress, and writer. She is also known by her nickname Ah-Po ().

Career

She graduated with a bachelor's degree in

sociology Sociology is the scientific study of human society that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of Interpersonal ties, social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. The term sociol ...

from

National Taiwan University National Taiwan University (NTU; zh, t=國立臺灣大學, poj=Kok-li̍p Tâi-oân Tāi-ha̍k, p=, s=) is a National university, national Public university, public research university in Taipei, Taiwan. Founded in 1928 during Taiwan under J ...

in 1995. While in college, she worked as an assistant producer at Zhen Yan She, a subsidiary of

Rock Records The Rock Records Co., Ltd. () commonly known as Rock Records (), is a record label based in Taipei, Taiwan. Founded in the 1980s as the Rock Music Publishing (滾石有聲出版社; ) by Tuan Chung-tan and Tuan Chung-i, It is the largest record ...

. When she returned to Hong Kong, she worked different jobs behind the camera, such as being a script supervisor and production assistant, as her father, actor

Eric Tsang Eric Tsang Chi-wai ( zh, t=曾志偉; born 14 April 1953) is a Hong Kong actor, film director, producer, and television host, best known for hosting the variety show ''Super Trio series'' on the Hong Kong television network Television Broadcasts ...

, did not want to support her career within the entertainment industry. Tsang returned to Taiwan in 1997 and her first screen appearance as a host on

Chung T'ien Television Chung T'ien Television (CTi TV; ), is a nationwide cable TV network based in Taiwan. It belongs to Want Want China Times group, which also owns China Television (CTV). History Founded in 1994, CTi TV was originally called the Chinese Television ...

(formerly CTN). She was discovered by Taiwanese producer Chang Hsiao-yen, who signed Tsang to her management company in 1999. From 1999 to 2003, she released six albums. Tsang is well known in

mainland China "Mainland China", also referred to as "the Chinese mainland", is a Geopolitics, geopolitical term defined as the territory under direct administration of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in the aftermath of the Chinese Civil War. In addit ...

for her roles in television dramas. She won Best Entertainment Program Host at the 2013

Golden Bell Awards 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 (Taiwan), M ...

. In 2019, she was the interviewer on

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's documentary series, ''The Eve of Tomorrow.''

Personal life

Tsang has a younger sister and two younger half brothers. Her parents are

Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...

actor

and his first wife, Taiwanese actress Wang Mei Hua (王美華). Her half-brother,

Derek Tsang Derek Tsang Kwok-cheung (; born 8 November 1979) is a Hong Kong filmmaker and actor. The son of actor Eric Tsang, Tsang got his start in the Hong Kong film industry working for director Peter Chan after graduating from University of Toronto Sca ...

, from her father's second marriage, is an

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- and

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-nominated director. While her father stays in Hong Kong for his acting career, Tsang currently lives in Taiwan with her mother and her siblings. She speaks

Mandarin Mandarin or The Mandarin may refer to: Language * Mandarin Chinese, branch of Chinese originally spoken in northern parts of the country ** Standard Chinese or Modern Standard Mandarin, the official language of China ** Taiwanese Mandarin, Stand ...

Hokkien Hokkien ( , ) is a Varieties of Chinese, variety of the Southern Min group of Chinese language, Chinese languages. Native to and originating from the Minnan region in the southeastern part of Fujian in southeastern China, it is also referred ...

Cantonese Cantonese is the traditional prestige variety of Yue Chinese, a Sinitic language belonging to the Sino-Tibetan language family. It originated in the city of Guangzhou (formerly known as Canton) and its surrounding Pearl River Delta. While th ...

Hakka The Hakka (), sometimes also referred to as Hakka-speaking Chinese, or Hakka Chinese, or Hakkas, are a southern Han Chinese subgroup whose principal settlements and ancestral homes are dispersed widely across the provinces of southern China ...

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, and some

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Selected filmography

Hosting

* TVBS-G《Super Live 3-5》 * 台灣電視公司《綜藝旗艦 Hello Jacky!》 * TVBS-G《晚安各位觀眾》 * TVBS-G《哈囉各位觀眾》 * 飛碟電台《飛碟小點心，寶貝七點鐘》 * 香港亞洲電視《亞洲星光大道》 *

Taiwan Television Taiwan Television Enterprise, Ltd. ( zh, t=臺灣電視公司, p=Táiwān Diànshì Gōngsī, poj=Tâi-ôan-tiān-sī-kong-si), commonly known as TTV and formerly known as Central Television and Voice of Taiwan, is the first terrestrial televisi ...

- 百萬小學堂 * ''Let's Go Home'' (2020) * ''Let's Go Home'' (2022; season 2) * ''Music Viva Viva'' (2022)

As actress

Discography

Bibliography

* 《阿寶靚湯》 * 《阿寶靚湯2：寶媽寶妹幸福湯》 * 《阿寶靚湯3：美人湯．孕婦湯42品》 * 《阿寶靚湯4：40道養生美容素食湯方》 * 《寶媽寶妹交換日記：不能和媽媽說的事》

References

External links

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