How Donnie Yen Fought His Way to Stardom
Donnie Yen spent more than two decades as a respected but not quite top-tier name in Hong Kong action cinema before a single role,…
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Chinese Cinema
How Jackie Chan Turned Stunts Into Stardom
A (1983), a man in a sailor’s uniform hangs from the hand of a clock tower, lets go and falls…
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How Jet Li Took Wushu to the World
In the late 1970s the most admired athlete in Chinese wushu was a slight teenager from Beijing who had grown up without a father…
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The Real Ip Man Behind the Legend
In the autumn of 1972, a few weeks before he died, an elderly man in a Kowloon flat was filmed performing the forms of…
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