- Don Mandarin
Don Mandarin is a singer from rural Somerset. He has released one album, "This Was Quo Country", an esoteric and literate blend of folk, mysticism, and disconcerting ambience. He has a strong and clear voice, aided by a crisp production of evocative resonance. The album features guest spots from Paul McGann, Patrick Duff and Mick Davies. Mandarin also sings with Bristolian acid casualties Applecraft. - Jackie Chan
Chan Kong-Sang, also known as Sing Lung or Jackie Chan SBS, (born on April 7, 1954) is a Chinese actor, director, martial artist, film producer, screenwriter, singer and stunt performer. Chan is one of the best known names in kung fu and action movies worldwide for his acrobatic fighting style, comic timing, usage of improvised weapons and his innovative stunts. - Takeshi Kaneshiro
Takeshi Kaneshiro (Born October 11, 1973) is a male actor and model. Of half-Japanese, half-Taiwanese ancestry, he was born and raised in Taipei, Taiwan but now resides in Japan. Takeshi was discovered by his classmate's mother at Taipei American School, who suggested him for a try out at modeling. Wanting money for buying a motorcycle at the time, he stepped into the show biz world. - Edison Chen
Edison Chen was a popular Hong Kong Chinese teen idol. He was an artist of the Emperor Entertainment Group (EEG). Edison Chen 's contract with EEG ended in 2005. ... Edison Chen was born on October 7th, 1980. He was raised in Richmond (Vancouver) and graduated high school at Robert Cecilia Palmer Secondary School (apparently, Edison was a slacker at school but was lucky enough to graduate). - Cecilia Cheung
Cecilia Cheung (Traditional Chinese: 張栢芝, Simplified Chinese: 张柏芝, pinyin: Zhãng Bǒ Zhī, Cantonese: Cheung Pak Zhi, born May 24, 1980) is a Hong Kong actress and singer. She is affectionately known for her husky sultry voice - Charlene Choi
Charlene Choi (born 22 November, 1982) is a member of the Cantopop girl group Twins, alongside Gillian Chung. - Karen Mok
Karen Joy Morris, or Karen Mok Man-Wai, or Mò Wénwèi(莫文蔚, born in June 2, 1970, Hong Kong) is a Hong Kong-based actress and singer. She is 1/2 Chinese, 1/4 Welsh (paternal grandfather), 1/8 Iranian and 1/8 German. Mok attended Diocesan Girls' School, Hong Kong (from primary to secondary) before attending United World College of the Adriatic near Trieste, Italy, … - Joan Chen
Joan Chen Chong (Mandarin Pinyin: Chén Chōng; Cantonese: 陳沖/Chan Chung; Cantonese IPA: ; Jyutping: can4 cung1; Yale: chan4 chung1) (born as Chen Chong on April 26, 1961, in Shanghai, China) is a Chinese American actress, film director, screenwriter and producer, best known for her roles in "The Last Emperor", "Twin Peaks", "Red Rose, White Rose", "Saving Face", … - Teresa Teng
Teresa Teng </small> (January 29, 1953 - May 8, 1995), was a very famous singer from Taipei, Taiwan. She enjoyed immense popularity amongst all Chinese-speaking people and in the rest of East Asia, particularly in Japan, for some 30 years. Teng was known for her folk songs and romantic ballads, which remain popular today. She made famous several songs, including "When Will You Return?". - Vanness Wu
Vanness Wu is a member of the popular Taiwanese boy band JVKV, formerly known as F4. He was born August 7, 1978, in Los Angeles, United States, and speaks fluent English and Mandarin. He enjoys singing, dancing, rapping, and acting. He has released two solo albums, "Body Will Sing", and "V.Dubb". He also starred in the Taiwanese drama "Meteor Garden" and its sequel, "Meteor Garden II" as well as other TV series that proved to be successful. - Benny Chan
Benny Chan Muk-Sing, born (Traditional Chinese: 陳木勝) on October 7th, 1969 is a Hong Kong movie director, producer and writer. He is fluent in English, Mandarin and Cantonese and was nominated for "Best director" at the 24th Annual Hong Kong Film Awards for the movie "New Police Story". - Jerry Yan
Liao Yangzhen, born January 1, 1977) is an actor and a member of Taiwanese boy band F4, better known as Jerry Yan. He was the lead actor in the popular Taiwanese drama "Meteor Garden" and its sequel, "Meteor Garden II", which made him a popular idol among teenage girls and elder women alike, not only in Taiwan but across Asia. He worked as a fashion model before venturing into acting, Meteor Garden was his breakout drama. - Christopher Doyle
Christopher Doyle is an Australian-born cinematographer and member of the HKSC. Doyle has worked with Chinese directors like Wong Kar-wai (for which he has done the cinematography of all his movies but the first one), Zhang Yimou, Edward Yang, and Zhang Yuan. He directed a feature film, "Away with Words" (aka "Kujaku", aka "San tiao ren") set in Hong Kong and Okinawa, starring Tadanobu Asano and Mavis Xu. - Lau Kar-Leung
Lau Kar-Leung (劉家良; Mandarin: Liu Jialiang, Liu Chia-Liang is a famous Hong Kong Chinese martial arts film director, choreographer and actor. Lau Kar Leung was born in August 1936, the third child of Lau Cham, a martial art master who was a pupil of Lam Sai Wing (the pupil of Wong Fei Hung). Lau's wife is Mary Jean Reimer, a solicitor in Hong Kong, who was formally an actress known as Yung Ching Ching (Weng Jing Jing). - Angelica Lee
Angelica Lee was born January 23, 1976 in Alor Setar, Kedah, Malaysia. She is a Malaysian-Taiwanese film actress and pop singer. She started her career in singing and later moved on to acting in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Lee starred in "The Eye", the hit Asian horror film by the Pang Brothers, winning her the Golden Horse Award for Best Actress, Best Actress at the Hong Kong Film Festival and a Hong Kong Golden Bauhinia Award. - Li Wei
Li Wei (Chinese:李卫; Styled Youjie 又玠; Posthumous name Minda 敏达; 1687-1738) was a famous mandarin during the reign of the Yongzheng Emperor (1722-1735) of the Qing Dynasty who was instrumental in carrying out Yongzheng's nationwide reforms in his role in various regional governing positions. Li was a native of Tongshan, Jiangnan (present-day Xuzhou, Jiangsu), and was orphaned at age 10. He was not very literate, … - Christy Chung
Christy Chung (鍾麗緹 "Jūng Laitài" Pinyin: "Zhōng Lìtí" Vietnamese: "Chung Lệ Đề", born September 19 1970) born in Montreal to a Chinese father and a Vietnamese mother. She grew up in Brossard, Quebec, a suburb of Montreal, with French and Vietnamese as mother-tongues. She later learned English, Mandarin and Cantonese. While studying for a career in the tourism industry at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), … - Tsai Chin
Tsai Chin is a pop and folk singer from Taiwan (her ancestral home is in Hubei). She sings in both Mandarin Chinese and Taiwanese (Min Nan). The peak of her popularity in Taiwan was from the late 1970s to the mid-1990s but she remains popular in mainland China. - Michael Hui
Michael Hui Koon-Man (born September 3, 1942) is a Hong Kong film comedian, scriptwriter and director. He studied in La Salle College. A sociology degree holder with quiz spells in TVB, Hui first gained popularity in the Hong Kong entertainment industry with his variety show stints in the "Hui Brothers Show". Thereafter he moved from television to film. - Ken Chu
Ken Chu was born in Taiwan on January 15, 1979 and educated in Singapore. A famous singer and composer, he is one of the members of the famous Taiwanese boy band F4 and also a prominent Taiwanese drama actor. Ken speaks not only Mandarin, but also English, Cantonese, Singlish and a bit of Thai, Indonesian and Japanese. Ken was working as a waiter in a small restaurant in Taiwan when he was discovered by Cai Zhi Ping, the creator of the boy band F4. - Kit Chan
Kit Chan, and "Forbidden City: Portrait of An Empress" (where she played the young Empress Dowager Cixi)– first performed in 2002 as part of the Esplanade's opening programme, and again in 2003. Kit has also played the lead in the Dutch-Hong Kong production of "East Meets West", and the Taiwanese musical "What's Love Got to Do with It?". In 2004, she announced an indefinite break from the Chinese pop scene, to pursue her own interests. - Ngo Dinh Diem
- Wilber Pan
Wilber Pan (born 6 August 1980), also known as Will Pan, is a popular American-born Taiwanese singer, rapper and drama actor, who started his career as a host of Channel V programs. Pan was born in West Virginia, United States and later moved to Taiwan at the age of seven. He attended Taipei American School and graduated in 1999. Because of his multicultural background, he is fluent in both Mandarin and American English. - Loletta Lee
Loletta Lee (Chinese:李麗珍, also known as Lee Lai Chun in Cantonese and Lee Li Zhen, in Mandarin) is a Hong Kong actress born on January 8, 1969 in Guangzhou. She later changed her name to Rachel Lee in 2000. She started playing small roles in HK movies in the 80s. Her first role as main actress is in "Devoted to You". She continued to play as young teenager in the 80s until 1990. - Sonija Kwok
Sonija Kwok (born 22 July 1974), or Kwok Sin-Nei (郭羨妮) in Cantonese (Mandarin Pinyin: Guo Xianni), is a Hong Kong-born actress. She is working for the major television station, TVB. - Chet Lam
Chet Lam Yat Fung (born 11 April 1976 Hong Kong) is a renowned Hong Kong independent singer-songwriter whose style has been described by many as "city-folk". Chet Lam started to perform professionally at the age of 10, in a broadcasting drama and TV commercial songs. After graduating from City University of Hong Kong, having majored in Japanese Business, … - Wang Luobin
Wang Luobin (1913-1996) was a renowned Han Chinese songwriter who specialized in composing Mandarin-language songs based on the music of various ethnic minorities in western China. Wang was born in Beijing in 1913. He graduated from the Music Department of Beijing Normal University in 1934 and actively participated in the Second Sino-Japanese War on China's behalf beginning in 1937 in Shanxi Province (see the external link below). - George Smith
George Smith (19 June 1815 - 14 December 1871) was a missionary in China and the Anglican bishop of Victoria (Hong Kong) from 1849 to 1865, the first of this newly established diocese. Smith was born in Wellington, Somerset on 19 June 1815. He obtained a BA in classics from Oxford in 1837 (and an MA in 1843 and DD in 1849) and was ordained as a deacon in 1839 and a priest in 1840. - Frances Yip
Frances Yip (born c. 1947) is a Cantopop singer from Hong Kong, singing many theme songs for the Hong Kong TVB series in the 1980s and early 1990s. She hit international fame with her signature tune, "The Bund" from the popular TVB drama of the same name. Before her success, she tributed songs in her earlier albums originally performed by singers such as Adam Cheng, Roman Tam, and Jenny Tseng. In her 37-year recording career, Frances has released more than 80 albums, … - Patrick Brown
Patrick Brown is a Canadian journalist based in Beijing, China. He was born in Birmingham, England and came to Canada in 1970. He was computer systems analyst, teacher and freelance journalist before joining Radio-Canada International as a news editor. He went to Montreal to work as a reporter with CBC Radio in 1976 and as national reporter in 1978. - John Pomfret
John Pomfret is an American journalist and writer. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and attended Stanford University, receiving B.A. and M.A. in East Asian Studies. In 1980, he was one of the first American students to go to China and study at Nanjing University. Between 1983 and 1984 he attended Singapore’s Institute of Southeast Asian Studies as a Fulbright Scholar, researching the Cambodian conflict. - Lisa Lu
Lisa Lu is a Chinese-American actress and documentary producer. Beginning in her teens, Lu was active in Chinese opera, or Kunqu, before immigrating to the United States. Beginning in the 1950s, she enjoyed a long career in American television, though was often forced to take stereotypical roles. Though she occasionally took film roles, her film career didn't begin in earnest until the 1970s, … - Robert Donat
Friedrich Robert Donath (March 18, 1905 - June 9, 1958), better known by his stage name Robert Donat, was a distinguished Academy Award-winning English film and stage actor of English, Polish and German descent. He was born in Withington, Manchester. Donat made his first stage appearance in 1921 and his film debut in 1932 in "Men of Tomorrow". His first great screen success came with "The Private Life of Henry VIII" (playing Thomas Culpepper), … - Abigail Washburn
Abigail Washburn (born November 10, 1979 in Evanston, Illinois) is an American clawhammer banjo player and singer. She performs and records as a soloist, as well as with the old-time bands Uncle Earl and Sparrow Quartet. Washburn was born in Evanston, Illinois (near Chicago), and spent her elementary and part of her junior high school years in a suburb of Washington, D.C.. She attended high school in Minnesota, then attended Colorado College, … - Robert van Gulik
Robert Hans van Gulik was a highly educated orientalist, diplomat, musician (of the guqin) and writer, best known for the Judge Dee mysteries, the protagonist of which he borrowed from the 18th century Chinese detective novel Dee Goong An. Van Gulik was the son of a medical officer in the Dutch army of what was then called the Dutch East Indies (modern-day Indonesia). - Janice Vidal
Janice M. Vidal is a female singer in Hong Kong. She is of mixed parentage with a Filipino father and a mixed Chinese and Korean mother. As a Hong Kong singer she had chosen the Chinese name "Wei Lan" (衛蘭), although most of her fans refer to her simply as "Janice". In the past she went under the name "Renee" in her musical work prior to her debut album in 2005 and "Ming Lok Tai" (明樂蒂) in a EEG singing competition in 2000. - Joyce Chen
Joyce Chen (September 14, 1917 - August 23, 1994) was a Chinese chef, restauranteur, and entrepreneur. Born in Beijing, China, Chen and husband Thomas left Shanghai, China in 1949 as Communists were taking over the country. Chen settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Chen opened her first restaurant, "Joyce Chen Restaurant," in 1958. In 1960 she began teaching Chinese cooking at the Cambridge and Boston Adult Education Centers, … - Dave Wong
Dave WONG, known in Mandarin Chinese as Wang Chieh (in traditional Chinese, in simplified Chinese) and in Cantonese as Wong Kit), is a Chinese pop star who was famous in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He was born in Taiwan as the son of a former Shaw Brothers actor, Wong Hap, and given the name. He grew up in Hong Kong and the United States. Wong shot to the top of the Tawainese music charts in 1987 with his debut album "A Game, A Dream", … - Ying Chen
Ying Chen (born 1961) is a Chinese Canadian author. She writes in French. Her surname in Chinese is "Ying". Born in 1961 in Shanghai, she now lives in Vancouver and is the mother of two children. She obtained a degree in French language and literature from Fudan University (复旦大学) in 1983 and worked as a translator and interpreter before moving to Montreal in 1989. She later lived in Magog, Quebec before moving to Vancouver in 2003. - Ocean Ou
Ocean Ou is a Mandarin singer about whom little is known. He hid his face for over two years, using computer-generated 3D models for all his album covers and music videos. His real name is Shen Yi-Tseng, and he used to be part of a now defunct three-man band called Y.I.Y.O. Ocean finally revealed his face on November 3, 2005 in a concert in Singapore. Many have criticized his looks, but others believe that his voice is good enough to make up for them.
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