Pauline Chan Bo-Lin

Pauline Chan Bo-Lin (simplified Chinese: 陈宝莲; traditional Chinese: 陳寶蓮; pinyin: Chén Bǎolián; May 23, 1973 – July 31, 2002) was a Chinese-Hong Kong actress who aroused significant attraction and controversies in the Greater China Area during her active years in the 1990s.

Pauline Chan
Born(1973-05-23)May 23, 1973
Shanghai, China
DiedJuly 31, 2002(2002-07-31) (aged 29)
Shanghai, China
OccupationActress
Years active1990–2002
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese陳寶蓮
Simplified Chinese陈宝莲

Career

Born in Shanghai, Chan's parents divorced when she was very young and she immigrated to Hong Kong with her mother at the age of 12. She started to work as a part-time fashion model at the age of 15 and contested in the 1990 Miss Asia Pageant. Chan did not win any title in this contest but her figure, 175-centimeter length and mature look drew the attention of local pornographic film industry. She entered this industry in 1991 at only 18-year-old, mainly for her mother's expectations to finance their family.[1][2] Until 1997, Chan showed up in more than 25 Hong Kong Category III films and gained widespread attraction for her bold performance, becoming a prominent sex symbol in the Greater China Area at that time.

Downfall

In 1997 Chan began a relationship with the playboy Taiwanese investment tycoon and celebrity Hwang Jen-chung (黃任中, also credited as Wong Yam-Chung (黄蔭衷) in Cantonese whom she met in 1993, and was 33 years older than she was. She moved to Taipei to cohabit with Huang until they broke up in early 1999. After her death, in a media interview Huang revealed that Chan had been involved in drug abuse and sorcery since 1998; Chan did so in anticipation to soothe herself and win his heart back during their emotional low tides.[3][4]

Between 1998 and 2001 Chan was involved in a chain of negative news. She attempted suicide during a TV interview, repeatedly attacked people, undressed in public, tried to enter foreign countries without valid travel documents and was deported as a result, set fire to her residence, and was frequently hospitalized for drug abuse.[5] In December 1999 she was briefly imprisoned in the United Kingdom for beating an unrelated person in public.[6]

Death

Chan hit rock bottom and secluded herself in Shanghai. Her final stage appearance was a bit role in a Taiwanese TV series in March 2002.[7]She gave birth to a baby boy in early July 2002 out of wedlock. Around PM 17:30 on 31 July 2002 Chan jumped out of her 24th-floor apartment window to her death:[8] in her suicide note she cited her postpartum depression as a reason for suicide, and besides expressing her deepest sorrow and blessing to Hwang Jen-chung (黃任中), she also asked everybody to seek her son's father, a Chinese American disk jockey in 臺北 Taipei.[9]Her funeral was a high-profile Buddhist ceremony on 3 August 2002 and her body was cremated.[10] Chan was portrayed posthumously by Chinese actress Sun Ya-Lee (孫亞莉), in the 2002 biopic Pauline's Life. Sun later also committed suicide in 2009 in part due to her debts.[11]

Chan's son was later adopted and raised by Taiwanese film producer Chiou Lee-Kwan (邱瓈寬). Chiu gave him the name Chiu Hwang-Wei (邱煌禕).[12][13][14]

Filmography
  • Millennium Mambo (2001)
  • Paramount Motel (2000)
  • Hunting Evil Spirit (1999)
  • Flowers of Shanghai (1998)
  • 02:00 A.M. (1997)
  • Passionate Nights (1997)
  • Boys? (1996)
  • Hong Kong Showgirls (1996)
  • Once Upon a Time in Triad Society (1996)
  • A Sudden Love (1995)
  • Dream Lovers (1994)
  • From Beijing with Love (1994)
  • All Over the World (1993)
  • Angel the Kickboxer (1993)
  • Flying Dagger (1993)
  • Love is Over (1993)
  • A Man of Nasty Spirit (1993)
  • Run For Life - Ladies From China (1993)
  • Sex for Sale (1993)
  • Slave of the Sword (1993)
  • Whores from the North (1993)
  • A Wild Party (1993)
  • Behind the Pink Door (1992)
  • Devil of Rape (1992)
  • Erotic Ghost Story 3 (1992)
  • Escape from Brothel (1992)
  • The Girls from China (1992)
  • Girls Without Tomorrow 1992 (1992)
  • It's Now or Never (1992)
  • Spider Force (1992)
  • Queen of the Underworld (1991)

References
  1. 盤點香港三級片 十位應該被記住的艷星 Archived 2008-12-03 at the Wayback Machine
  2. "陈宝莲 Pauline Chan". Archived from the original on 2010-09-22. Retrieved 2009-07-13.
  3. 人物风流：股市大亨黄任中与陈宝莲的爱恨纠葛 Archived 2009-02-12 at the Wayback Machine
  4. “情敌”小潘潘曝料：陈宝莲生前曾“养小鬼” Archived 2012-07-20 at Archive.today
  5. 名人生死簿／三級片起家　陳寶蓮起起伏伏演藝路
  6. 一念之差　陈宝莲沦为三级女星难翻身 Archived 2009-02-13 at the Wayback Machine
  7. 陳寶蓮自殺原因成謎
  8. http://www.brns.com/hkactors/pages/page30.html at site "Hong Kong Cinema - View from Brooklyn Bridge"
  9. 陳寶蓮最後遺言︰請替我找孩子的生父
  10. 陳寶蓮家屬首次公開确認自殺原因
  11. "Porn star found dead in hotel". The Straits Times. 9 February 2009. Archived from the original on 12 February 2009. Retrieved 9 January 2010.
  12. 傳收養陳寶蓮兒15年…邱瓈寬曬慶生照　盼能有平靜生活
  13. 還記得已逝女星陳寶蓮兒子嗎？
  14. 生父成謎，與竇靖童青梅竹馬，陳寶蓮16歲兒子邱煌禕今高大帥氣
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