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It is alleged that Ching-Yuen was born at Qijiang County, Sichuan province, in 1677. By age 13, he had embarked upon a life of gathering herbs in the mountains with three elders. At age 51, he served as a tactical and topography advisor in the army of General Yue Zhongqi. [10]
At age 16, Yen began practising Wushu after his parents sent him to Beijing to train with the Beijing Wushu Team. [13] At age 18, when Yen was returning to the United States to visit his family, he made a stop in Hong Kong, where he met and auditioned for action choreographer Yuen Woo-ping. [13] Yen comes from a family of musicians.
Michael Ying Lee Yuen (Chinese: 邢李㷧; pinyin: Xíng Lǐyuán; born December 1949) is a Hong Kong billionaire businessman and philanthropist. Ying is the former chairman and chief executive officer of Esprit Holdings Limited , and remains the largest individual shareholder, with a 15% stake.
In May 2006, Yuen announced that she was 3 months pregnant with their first child. Their son, Morton Cheung, was born on November 12, 2006. On June 23, 2007, Yuen was a guest on TVB's Be My Guest with host Stephen Chan revealing that she and Julian were secretly married in Shibuya City, Japan, back in 2001. Anita had finally revealed in early ...
Yuen Biao (born Ha Lingchun; 26 July 1957) is a Hong Kong actor, martial artist and stuntman. He specialises in acrobatics and Chinese martial arts and has also ...
Cheng Yen or Shih Cheng Yen (Chinese: 證嚴法師, 釋證嚴; pinyin: Zhèngyán Fǎshī; Wade–Giles: Chêng 4 Yen 2 Fa 3-shih 1; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Chèng-giâm Hoat-su; [a] born Chin-Yun Wong; the 24th of the third Lunar month, 4 May 1937) [1] [2] is a Taiwanese Buddhist nun , teacher, and philanthropist.
Cheung Cheun-Nam, known professionally as Yuen Qiu (Chinese: 元秋; born 19 April 1950), is a Hong Kong actress and martial artist. She is an expert of both Chinese martial arts and Beijing-opera skills, and was apprenticed at the Peking Opera School under the same master, Yu Jim-yuen , as Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung .
He was best known for being the chairman of Formosa Plastics Corporation, one of Taiwan's foremost plastic manufacturing establishments until his retirement in June 2006, where he stepped down at the age of 89. [1] In 2008, Forbes ranked him as the 178th richest person in the world with an estimated net worth of US$5.5 billion. [2]