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Martial artists honouring Bruce Lee teacher on their love of wing chun
More than 100 martial artists from around the world gathered in Hong Kong at an event dedicated to Wong Shun-leung, student of Ip Man.
15 Jan 2025 - 7:27PM
Chinese culture
Year of the Snake 2025 predictions for Roosters, such as lots of money
15 Jan 2025 - 4:46AM
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Art
New interest in viral Donald Trump as Buddha figures by Chinese sculptor
15 Jan 2025 - 4:09PM
Chinese culture
Year of the Snake may be unlucky for Snakes. How to avoid misfortune
The Lunar New Year in 2025 heralds the Year of the Snake. It’s bad news if the Snake is your zodiac – you’ll be hit by the ‘12-year curse’.
12 Jan 2025 - 9:53AM
The Year of the Snake is bad for Snakes. Photo: Getty Images
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Chinese engineer turns to tofu to revive home village
Luo Zhaoliu quit his high-paying job as an engineer in the city and returned home to start a fermented tofu business.
10 Jan 2025 - 6:10PM
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Chinese culture
5 martial arts films that feature the snake style of Shaolin kung fu
From an early Jackie Chan film to Kung Fu Panda and The Karate Kid, here are five movies where snake kung fu appears.
10 Jan 2025 - 12:09PM
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Wellness
Hong Kong researcher on how TCM could be used to fight dementia
A neuroscientist describes how traditional Chinese medicine may provide modern solutions to preserving cognitive function as we age.
10 Jan 2025 - 12:09PM
Researchers, including in Hong Kong, have been looking at the potential of traditional Chinese medicine to treat dementia, cases of which are forecast to rise as the elderly population grows. Photo: Yik Yeung-man
Asian cinema: Hong Kong film
4 notable Monkey King adaptations in Hong Kong cinema. One stars Donnie Yen
We recall Journey to the West film adaptations, from Stephen Chow’s turn in the title role to one in which Donnie Yen plays the Monkey King.
10 Jan 2025 - 12:09PM
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Asian cinema: Hong Kong film
8 classic Hong Kong movies that influenced filmmaking in the city
Hong Kong filmmaking underwent successive evolutions thanks to films like Fist of Fury, Infernal Affairs and John Woo’s A Better Tomorrow.
10 Jan 2025 - 12:08PM
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Asia travel
Harbin ice cutters on thin ice as warmer temperatures reduce their income
Workers harvesting ice from the Songhua River for the city of Harbin’s Ice and Snow World are finding thinner ice.
10 Jan 2025 - 12:08PM
Asian cinema: Hong Kong film
3 of John Woo’s lesser known action films, one so violent it was shelved
A triad movie with a young Stephen Chow, a crude war film and a crime caper starring Leslie Cheung. These 3 Woo projects fly under the radar.
10 Jan 2025 - 12:08PM
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Cherie Chung, Leslie Cheung and Chow Yun-fat in a still from Once a Thief, one of John Woo’s more obscure action films. Photo: Fortune Star Media Limited
Art
4 Macau shows that celebrate its heritage and Chinese culture
As casino city looks to turn itself into a cultural tourism destination, resorts put on art exhibitions and shows. Here are four of the best.
10 Jan 2025 - 12:07PM
Asian cinema: Hong Kong film
Stephen Chow’s ‘heroic’ makeover for Fight Back to School movies
Known for lowbrow comedies and playing the underdog, Chow was successfully recast as a suave hero, playing a cop undercover as a schoolboy.
10 Jan 2025 - 12:07PM
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Art
How southern China’s Greater Bay Area is becoming a contemporary art hub
Greater Bay Area cities Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Shunde drew art lovers from Shanghai and Beijing to a week of art fairs and exhibitions.
10 Jan 2025 - 12:06PM
Asian cinema: Hong Kong film
The Ip Man movies without Donnie Yen, including a Wong Kar-wai version
The Ip Man story has been explored in multiple films, from Wong Kar-wai’s The Grandmaster starring Tony Leung to one featuring Anthony Wong.
10 Jan 2025 - 12:06PM
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Tony Leung Chiu-wai in a still from The Grandmaster. Photo: Jet Tone Films
Asian cinema: Hong Kong film
The rise and fall of Hong Kong’s ‘middle class’ film studio
D&B films, started by watch retailer Dickson Poon, launched Michelle Yeoh’s action-movie career and was known for its ‘middle class values’.
10 Jan 2025 - 12:06PM
Asian cinema: Hong Kong film
How the Erotic Ghost Story films shocked and seduced Hong Kong
The trio of 1990s adult movies with Hong Kong sex symbols like Amy Yip and Japanese adult-video actresses like Kudo Hitomi were a huge hit.
10 Jan 2025 - 12:05PM
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Asian cinema: Chinese films
Chinese film about Covid lockdown wins top prize in Taiwan awards
Lou Ye’s An Unfinished Film, winner of best film and best director at Golden Horse awards, ‘the most special directing job’, director says.
10 Jan 2025 - 12:05PM
Qin Hao in a still from An Unfinished Film, by Chinese director Lou Ye, which won best film and best director at the 2024 Golden Horse awards in Taiwan on November 23, 2024.
Asian cinema: Hong Kong film
4 very different Hong Kong romance films from the 2000s to watch
From July Rhapsody with Jacky Cheung to Love in a Puff with Miriam Yeung and Andy Lau in Love on a Diet, these movies offered something new.
10 Jan 2025 - 12:04PM
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Asian cinema: Hong Kong film
Was remaking classics like Police Story, A Better Tomorrow a good idea?
We look at four remakes of classic Hong Kong films, from a Jackie Chan-led Police Story from the 2000s to a riff on Bruce Lee’s Fist of Fury.
10 Jan 2025 - 12:04PM
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American cinema
Why Circle of Iron, based on a Bruce Lee idea, turned out badly
Based on a script Lee abandoned, the 1978 film ended up a bizarre mix of poor martial arts and mysticism. An expert dissects what went wrong.
10 Jan 2025 - 12:03PM
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OPINION
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The earliest Chinese lotteries, and a cheating operator’s gruesome death
11 Jan 2025 - 9:23AM
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Is God there? Yes, said China’s Confucius, but so what?
10 Jan 2025 - 12:02PM
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Suicide in Korea is a big problem. In China, views were once very different
10 Jan 2025 - 12:00PM
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Hunter Biden pardon, Chinese history give the lie to equality before the law
10 Jan 2025 - 12:00PM
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Like Musk for Trump, a benefactor aided rise of China’s first emperor
10 Jan 2025 - 12:00PM
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China’s Great Wall, and the Malaysian state that wants its own
10 Jan 2025 - 11:59AM
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