Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards
Some fans, notably Zhang Jinran, claimed her death was a murder. Her apparent suicide came as a shock to many of her readers and was accompanied by public expressions of grief throughout the Chinese-speaking world. There has been much speculation regarding the reason for her suicide: a cancer scare, disappointment over losing the Taiwan movie Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards for her script to the film "Red Dust", a loss which she took poorly, or depression over her husband Jose's death, which had occurred 12 years earlier. She was buried at the Chin Pao San Cemetery.