The Handover of Hong Kong
At 11.30 in the evening of 30 June 1997, in the Grand Foyer of the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, a ceremony began…
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How the Pearl River Delta Became a Megalopolis
Fly into the Pearl River Delta at night and the old map stops making sense. There is no visible gap between Guangzhou and Foshan,…
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How Shenzhen Was Built From Border Villages
In 1979 the place now called Shenzhen was an agricultural county on the border with British Hong Kong. Its official resident population was about…
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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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How Dennis To Became the Young Ip Man
Few actors have been as closely tied to one role as Dennis To Yu-hang (杜宇航). He won a world wushu title for Hong Kong…
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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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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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