From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Chu Tien-wen (Chinese: 朱天文, born August 24, 1956 in Taipei, Taiwan) is one of Taiwan's most prominent writers. She is the daughter of Chu Hsi-ning and the older sister of Chu Tien-hsin. Some of her literary works include "Fin-de-Siècle Splendour" (1990) and Notes of a Desolate Man (1994). She wrote many of the scripts for the famous Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien. Her screenwriting credits include movies like Taipei Story, The Puppetmaster, Goodbye South, Goodbye, Millenium Mambo, City of Sadness (1989) and many more. Description above from the Wikipedia article Chu Tien-wen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia​