The entertainment industry is abuzz with speculation that pop star Selina Jen (任家萱), who has been recuperating since suffering serious burns while shooting a movie in Shanghai three months ago, will soon call a press conference. Selina is a member of the three-girl pop group SHE, one of the most popular in Taiwan.
Ella Chen (陳嘉樺), also a member of the group, said arrangements were still being made, but declined to give details.
Chang Cheng-chung (張承中), Selina’s fiance, said in a blog posting that it was just a matter of time before she would have to face the future after suffering third-degree burns over 54 percent of her body. The question was “when and how to face it,” Chang said.
“She can hide herself from the public for a time, but not for a lifetime,” he added.
Selina underwent surgery for burns to over half her body in a hospital outside Taipei in October after being rushed back from Shanghai.
In response to media questions, Ella said Selina would be mentally prepared if she were to face the press.
“I am sure she is worried because she has to confront many challenges, but that also proves that Selina is a true SHERO — a woman hero,” she said.
What worried Chang was how the media will look at her.
“Would she be photographed? Would those photographs sell given the public’s curiosity? And how will she carry herself?” he said.
Selina has recovered far more quickly than doctors had expected, according to Chang and Ella.
Her hair has grown back to the length it was before the incident.
As to her physical scars, Chang said it would take much longer for those injuries to fully heal. Psychologically, Selina is “much stronger and braver than you would imagine,” Ella said.
A group of Taiwanese-American and Tibetan-American students at Harvard University on Saturday disrupted Chinese Ambassador to the US Xie Feng’s (謝鋒) speech at the school, accusing him of being responsible for numerous human rights violations. Four students — two Taiwanese Americans and two from Tibet — held up banners inside a conference hall where Xie was delivering a speech at the opening ceremony of the Harvard Kennedy School China Conference 2024. In a video clip provided by the Coalition of Students Resisting the CCP (Chinese Communist Party), Taiwanese-American Cosette Wu (吳亭樺) and Tibetan-American Tsering Yangchen are seen holding banners that together read:
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