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Chen Chun-yu (陳君玉) was a Taiwanese songwriter and author born in 1905 at Dadaocheng. He wrote many Hokkien songs such as Thiau Bu Si Tai (跳舞時代) and Siu Be Toa Kang Tiau (想要彈同調), and had served as an officer of the Columbia Record, a Japanese-owned disc company. Chen could speak Mandarin Chinese fluently, he was an introducer of Standard Mandarin in postwar era of Taiwan. Chen died from hepatic cancer on March 4, 1963.