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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 at 18 and got into films with small parts in Donnie Yen’s Ip Man and Ip Man 2.
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How Jackie Chan Turned Stunts Into Stardom
In the final minutes of Project A (1983), a man in a sailor’s uniform hangs from the hand of a clock tower, lets go and falls about eighteen metres, tearing through two cloth awnings before hitting the ground.
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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 and had been winning national titles since the age of eleven or twelve.
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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 the martial art he had spent his life teaching.
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Shen Kuo Wrote His Masterpiece in Disgrace
In 1088, a disgraced former general and finance commissioner settled into a garden estate on the edge of Zhenjiang, a city on the southern bank of the Yangtze.
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Wang Zhenyi Brought the Heavens Down to Earth
In the late eighteenth century, long before electric light, photography, computers or modern observatories, a young Chinese woman stood in a room trying to recreate the movement of the heavens.
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The Father of Fibre Optics
Sir Charles Kuen Kao was one of the most important electrical engineers and physicists of the twentieth century.
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Martin Jacques and the End of Western Certainty
When Martin Jacques published When China Rules the World in 2009, China was already impossible to ignore.
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Chiang Kai-shek From the Mainland to Taiwan
Chiang Kai-shek was born in a Zhejiang market town in 1887, while the Qing still governed China, and died in Taipei in 1975 as president of a republic that had lost the mainland a quarter century earlier.
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Wu Jing and the Wolf Warrior Legacy
In the mid 2010s Chinese cinemas were already crowded with imported franchises and domestic comedies.
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Taiwan and the People It Produced
Taiwan is a small island. That sentence is so often used as a preface to a threat, or to a miracle, that it has almost stopped meaning anything. It is still the right place to start.
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Jensen Huang and Ren Zhengfei’s Rival AI Empires
Huawei and Nvidia are now the two names that define the AI silicon contest on either side of the US China technology wall.
