Huang Ching-chi (Chinese: 黃慶綺; born December 18, 1956), known professionally by Hsia Yu (夏宇), Tung Ta-lung (童大龍), and Katie Lee (李格弟), is a Taiwanese poet, writer, lyricist, and playwright.
[1][2] Born December 18, 1956,[3] Lee graduated from National Taiwan University of Arts with a film studies degree and had a few part-time jobs in publishing and TV broadcasting companies.
Chung-tan Tuan from Rock Records advised Tai Hsiang Lee to rewrite the lyrics and contacted Hsia Yu to assist.
[5][1] Since her debut as a lyricist in 1984, Lee has written over 200 songs, including “I'm Not Good Looking But I'm Very Gentle 我很醜，可是我很溫柔” by Chief Chao, “Ni Zai Fan Nao Xie She Me Ne?
[8] Lee also created Sandee Chan's “Leaving on a Jet Plane乘噴射機離去”, Jolin Tsai's “Play我呸”, Waa Wei's “You Lovely Bastard 還是要相信愛情啊混蛋們”, and others.
More recent lyrics by Lee include Cheer Chen's “A Box of Rain 雨水一盒”, Hebe Tien's “A Better Rival in Love 請你給我好一點的情敵”, Jam Hsiao “Golden Love 純金打造”, Chris Lee “Cun Zai Gan 存在感”, Shin “煉金術 Alchemy”, and songs she collaborated on with Greeny Wu such as “As a Monster作為怪物” and “Ah!
“Bei Wang Lu 備忘錄”, the poetry collection she published in 1984, was a self-funded publication which Hsia Yu edited, formatted, and designed.
Hsia Yu then self-funded her second publication, “Ventriloquy 腹語術”, which was described by Chi Cheng Luo 羅智成as “a book that’s against realities”.
In 2017, Hsia Yu was invited to six stage performances combining poetry and music by FICEP at the event “Nuit de la literature 文學之夜”, located in Villa Belleville in Paris.
In July, her poetry was presented in the exhibition “Dream Makers in the section of “Desire for Words 渴望詞語”, where she used ink to cover 19 of her poems.
In the September of the same year, Subjam and Hsia Yu published an anthology in Simplified Chinese, incorporating five of her previous publications: “Ventriloquy 腹語術”, “Mo Ca · Wu Yi Ming Zhuang 摩擦·無以名狀”, “Salsa”, “Pink Noise”, and “Poetry Sixty 詩六十首”.
[12] Published in July 2019, “Luo Man Shi Zuo Wei Dun Wu 羅曼史作為頓悟” is Hsia Yu's newest work, compiling 19 poems written after the publication of “First Person 第一人稱”.
Following the printing style of her previous work, Hsia Yu published "Ji Zhui Zhi Zhou 脊椎之軸" in 2020.
They allow songwriters to explore new possibilities from different perspectives.” Music critic Shi Fang Ma commented, “I adore Katie Lee.
How good can she get?”[13] The Nobel laureate in Literature, Xingjian Gao commented on Hsia Yu’s work: “This anthology defeats all misty poems.
[14] Occasionally, she has filled in the lyrics according to the melody, such as the collaboration with Jian Min Jiang “Happy While In Pain痛並快樂著”, and many songs in 2019's collaboration with Shin's “Alchemy 煉金術” album, including “Alchemy 煉金術” and “Ran Liao 燃料”, and “醒” (melody by David Tao).