Yang Li-hua

Yang Li-hua is a Taiwanese opera performer. During her career, she performed in nearly 170 productions on TTV. Unusually for Chinese opera, she played a wide variety of male roles.

Early life

Yang was born in Yuanshan, Yilan County, into a family with a theatrical background; her grandfather was the organiser of an amateur "peikuan" orchestra group, and her mother, Hsiao Chang-sou, was a male role-player with a Taiwanese opera group in Yilan County. During her childhood, Yang often accompanied her mother on tour, exposing her to Taiwanese opera from an early age. Yang began to play walk-on roles when she was four years old. At the age of seven, she played the lead in a play called An-An Chases Chickens《安安趕雞》. 2025: National Cultural Award (shared with and )

In 1996, Yang was voted as one of the "ten hottest idols" by a gay and lesbian organization.