(right) Arthur Liu, whose Western pop music radio shows were a big hit back in 1960s Taiwan, bought 30 radio stations in the US in the 1990s, becoming a mogul in Chinese-language media there, and writing an amazing page in broadcasting history. (left) One of Liu's broadcasting towers. (May Wang)	(right) Arthur Liu, whose Western pop music radio shows were a big hit back in 1960s Taiwan, bought 30 radio stations in the US in the 1990s, becoming a mogul in Chinese-language media there, and writing an amazing page in broadcasting history. (left) One of Liu's broadcasting towers. (May Wang)

In little Taiwan, jam packed with its own media, not many people have heard of Arthur Liu, a man from Taiwan now living in the US who owns 30 radio stations. But when his name comes up in US television and radio circles, people are certainly impressed, and there are many legends surrounding the recent entrepreneurial rise of this media veteran.

Who after all is Arthur Liu? How did this man, who went to the US as an ordinary overseas student, create an American legend in the highly competitive radio industry? Starting from nothing, how did he take control of a part of the American broadcast empire for people of Chinese ancestry?

People who were pop music fans back in the 1960s in Taiwan should find Arthur Liu is no stranger to them. Back then, for eight years he hosted programs featuring Western pop music on Youth Radio, the police radio network, and the Broadcasting Corporation of China. He was a progressive trendsetter in that era.