Background
In 1994, when Chen Chien-chou was 17, his father was killed in the China Airlines Flight 140 crash.
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Chen Chen
Chen Chien-chou , also known as Blackie Chen, is a Taiwanese TV presenter, actor, filmmaker, singer, philanthropist, basketball manager and a former basketball player.
Education
He made the Chinese Taipei junior national team and played in the 1995 ABC Under-18 Championship where they finished 5th.
Career
He got into a brawl and was detained by the police. Chen Chien-chou felt so ashamed that he was determined to turn himself around. He practiced basketball very seriously.
Although only 190cm (short for even Taiwanese standards), Chen played in the paint. He modelled his game after Charles Barkley, also an undersized big man (hence his English name of "Charles Chen"). In 1999, after missing the cut for the Chinese Taipei national basketball team, he played for the B national team at the William Jones Cup.
Later, playing for a club in the Singaporean league (where he led the league in scoring and rebounding), he tore his anterior cruciate ligament for the second time in an accident. His basketball career ended prematurely as a result. Chen became a performing artist, and a host of numerous variety shows.
Because of his dark skin, he has come to be known by the nickname "Blackie", it is also because the name rhymes with Jackie Chan, in which they both are trained in judo, which Blackie obtained a blue belt. He has been in a relationship with Christine Fan for 10 years, before finally getting engaged in 2010. The documentary was well received and earned him widespread acclaim and accolades from the Taiwanese film industry.
Many consider it the high-water mark of Taiwanese sports related documentary films. Blackie is also a successful, popular, and well-known television personality and host for several television shows. He is slated to play Peng Dehuai in the highly anticipated miniseries Untold Stories of 1949, to be produced for HBO Asia.
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