Hu Po-yuan (胡柏源; pen name Sunny Hu, H‧Sunny) was born in Taichung in 1944. He is a
first-generation Taiwanese detective-fiction writer and a painter.
As a writer he has a style of his own: most of his stories appeared in Mystery Magazine (推理雜誌),
drawing on Taiwanese people, places and manners, and he created the "Detective Cheng" (鄭探長探案)
form — fifty stories are collected on the family site, and he continues to write. Critics note that his
fiction doubles as a record of Taiwanese social history.
He is a son of
Hu Shu-lin (胡樹琳), known as the godfather of Taiwanese guitar, and has long been
involved in local art as a senior member of the Nantou Fine Arts Association. He lives in Canada.
He paints mainly in oils; his output is large and widely collected.
His canvases take mountains, lakes, stone, harbours and the figures of everyday labour as their
subjects, mostly 16 × 20 inch, quiet in colour and dense in paint. After finishing a painting he would
write a short poem for it, calling these his "nonsense talk" (胡言囈語), numbered to match the work —
a footnote to the painting, and a second way of looking at it. This site gathers 96 works collected
between 2004 and 2014; twenty-eight of them carry a poem.
Books: stories for Mystery Magazine; children's books including One Thousand and One Nights,
The Prince and the Genie, Alice in Wonderland, The Rose Princess, The Frog King, Chinese Heroes and
The Life of Sun Yat-sen (Dazhong Publishing).
Source: the Chinese Wikipedia article on 胡柏源.