{{Short description|Taiwanese film producer and real estate developer}} thumb|Chiu Fu-sheng {{Chinese |order=ts |t=邱復生 |s=邱复生 |p=Qiū Fùshēng }} '''Chiu Fu-sheng''' ({{zh|first=t|t=邱復生}}; born 19 July 1947) is a Taiwanese film producer and real estate developer.
== Life and career == Born in Pingtung County in 1947, Chiu is of Hakka descent. He attended the Political Warfare Cadres Academy.<ref name="Hsubk146">{{cite book|last1=Hsu|first1=Chien-Jung|title=The Construction of National Identity in Taiwan's Media, 1896-2012|date=2014|publisher=BRILL|isbn=9789004227699|page=146|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qdhXAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA146}}</ref> Chiu began his career in media as an advertiser in the 1970s before founding Era Communications, which began as a video and independent film distribution company in 1982.<ref name="Wangbk">{{cite book|last1=Wang|first1=Shujen|title=Framing Piracy: Globalization and Film Distribution in Greater China|date=2003|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=9780742519800|page=115|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nWzxt2UsQFEC&pg=PA115}}</ref><ref name="curtinbk">{{cite book|last1=Curtin|first1=Michael|title=Playing to the World's Biggest Audience: The Globalization of Chinese Film and TV|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=abIwDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA113|date=2007|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=9780520251342|page=113}}</ref>
After returning from a business trip to the 1988 Cannes Film Festival, Chiu wondered why Taiwanese films were not featured at international awards shows. He found that Taiwanese filmmaking lacked several widely used technologies and techniques, such as synchronous recording, optical printing, and layered audio.<ref name="ttint" /> Through Era,<ref name="Wangbk" /> Chiu produced Hou Hsiao-hsien's 1989 film ''A City of Sadness''. During post-production, Chiu sent the film to Japan, where he made two copies. One returned to Taiwan for review by the Government Information Office and the other was sent to the Venice Film Festival.<ref name="ttint" />
Martial law had been lifted two years ago prior to the film's release, but the depiction of the 228 Incident in ''A City of Sadness'' still caused controversy within the Kuomintang-dominated government,<ref name="ttint" /><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Rayns|first1=Tony|title=Made in Taiwan|journal=Index on Censorship|date=1 March 1991|volume=20|issue=3|page=6 |doi=10.1080/03064229108535051|s2cid=147572569 |doi-access=free}}</ref> which believed that Chiu had broken the law in sending the film out of the country.<ref name="ttint" /> Its eventual approval by the GIO nearly resulted in the firing of office director Shao Yu-ming.<ref name="ttint">{{cite news|last1=Lan|first1=Tzu-wei|translator-last1=Hetherington|translator-first1=William|translator-last2=Chung|translator-first2=Jake|title=INTERVIEW: Chiu Fu-sheng's vanity film ended up making history|url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2017/10/11/2003680125/2|accessdate=12 October 2017|work=Taipei Times|date=11 October 2017}}</ref>
In 1991, Chiu produced ''Raise the Red Lantern'' directed by Zhang Yimou. ''Raise the Red Lantern'' won the BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language and was nominated for the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Foreign Film in 1993.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Ilott|first1=Terry|title='End' in front for BAFTA|url=https://variety.com/1993/film/news/end-in-front-for-bafta-103900/|accessdate=12 October 2017|work=Variety|date=11 February 1993}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Film Not in the English Language in 1993|url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/1993/film/film-not-in-the-english-language|accessdate=12 October 2017|agency=British Academy of Film and Television Arts}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Past Awards|url=https://www.aacta.org/aacta-awards/past-awards/range/1990-1999/year/1993/|accessdate=12 October 2017|agency=Australian Film Institute/Australian Academy Cinema Television Arts}}</ref> He then co-produced Hou Hsiao-hsien's ''The Puppetmaster'' (1993) before Zhang's 1994 film ''To Live''.<ref name="Wangbk" /> ''To Live'' earned Zhang and Chiu a second BAFTA Award in 1995.<ref>{{cite news|title=Four Weddings' sweeps British awards|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1995/04/23/Four-Weddings-sweeps-British-awards/8512798609600/|accessdate=12 October 2017|work=United Press International|date=23 April 1995}}</ref> TVBS was founded in 1993 and Chiu was elected the company's first chairman.<ref name="tvbshist">{{cite news|title=History|url=http://vip.tvbs.com.tw/project/ours/en/growth-record.html|accessdate=12 October 2017|agency=TVBS}}</ref> The joint venture between Shaw Brothers Studio's TVB and Era remained under Chiu's leadership until 2003, though Chiu began focusing on Era Television in 1998.<ref name="Wangbk" /><ref name="tvbshist" /><ref name="Hsubk147">{{cite book|last1=Hsu|first1=Chien-Jung|title=The Construction of National Identity in Taiwan's Media, 1896-2012|date=2014|publisher=BRILL|isbn=9789004227699|page=147|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qdhXAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA147}}</ref> Because TVBS lost the television broadcast rights to Chinese Professional Baseball League games, Chiu founded Taiwan Major League in 1996.<ref name="Wangbk" /> The four-team TML were consolidated into the CPBL in 2003. Chiu divested from TVBS in 2005.<ref name="Hsubk147" />
Chiu left Era in 2008 and became a real estate developer, chairing the Taiwan Land Development Corporation.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Hsu|first1=Crystal|title=TLDC to raise capital through private placement|url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2017/03/31/2003667771|accessdate=13 October 2017|work=Taipei Times|date=31 March 2017}}</ref> The TLDC has several developments in Hualien, including "Sunrise Village," a group of environmentally friendly homes,<ref name="creativity">{{cite news|last1=Hsu|first1=Crystal|title=Creativity key to growth: TLDC|url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2017/01/19/2003663345|accessdate=13 October 2017|work=Taipei Times|date=19 January 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Hsu|first1=Crystal|title='Green' homes to be invitation only|url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2015/10/03/2003629124|accessdate=13 October 2017|work=Taipei Times|date=3 October 2015}}</ref> and "Huallywood," a project dedicated to the Taiwanese film industry, reminiscent of Hollywood, California.<ref name="creativity" /><ref>{{cite news|last1=Hsu|first1=Crystal|title='Huallywood' film studio planned for Hualien County|url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2016/06/22/2003649160|accessdate=13 October 2017|work=Taipei Times|date=22 June 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Hsu|first1=Crystal|title=TLDC partners with WPC Media to build data bank|url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2016/11/17/2003659397|accessdate=13 October 2017|work=Taipei Times|date=17 November 2016}}</ref> Elsewhere in Taiwan, TLDC operated developments in Hsinchu, Kinmen, and Nantou under Chiu's leadership.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Hsu|first1=Crystal|title=TLDC aims to cash in on savings reform funds|url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2017/06/29/2003673488|accessdate=13 October 2017|work=Taipei Times|date=29 June 2017}}</ref> The TLDC has also researched the possibility of investment in other countries, namely Vietnam.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Hsu|first1=Crystal|title=TLDC to scout Vietnam options|url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2017/09/30/2003679399|accessdate=13 October 2017|work=Taipei Times|date=30 September 2017}}</ref>
==Personal life== Chiu Fu-sheng's daughter {{ill|Vicki Chiu|zh|邱于芸}} served as deputy minister of culture in the Ma Ying-jeou presidential administration from January to October 2015.<ref>{{cite news|title=MOC fires deputy Vicki Chiu over letter|url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2015/10/18/2003630342|accessdate=13 October 2017|work=Taipei Times|date=18 October 2015}}</ref>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Chiu, Fu-sheng}} Category:1947 births Category:Living people Category:People from Pingtung County Category:Taiwanese film producers Category:Real estate and property developers Category:Taiwanese people of Hakka descent Category:Taiwanese businesspeople in the real estate industry Category:Taiwanese company founders Category:20th-century Taiwanese businesspeople Category:21st-century Taiwanese businesspeople Category:Producers who won the Best Foreign Language Film BAFTA Award