Traces of a Dragon (aka Traces of a Dragon: Jackie Chan and his Lost Family) is a 2003 documentary film directed by Mabel Cheung. The film explores the touching and history-filled background of Jackie Chan as we have never seen him before.
The world knows him as Jackie Chan. His Chinese fans know him by the stage name Shing Long (which means “Becoming the Dragon”). The official record gives his birth name as Chan Kong-Sang. But two years ago Jack...
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Traces of a Dragon (aka Traces of a Dragon: Jackie Chan and his Lost Family) is a 2003 documentary film directed by Mabel Cheung. The film explores the touching and history-filled background of Jackie Chan as we have never seen him before.
The world knows him as Jackie Chan. His Chinese fans know him by the stage name Shing Long (which means “Becoming the Dragon”). The official record gives his birth name as Chan Kong-Sang. But two years ago Jackie Chan found out from his father that his ‘real’ name is Fang Shilong. This revelation came with the uncovering of a previously hidden family history, a chronicle of lives scarred by war, poverty and separation. Jackie Chan was born in Hong Kong on 7 April 1954. His father Chan Chi-Long worked at the US Consulate. Mr Chan had met his wife-to-be Lily in China, years before, amid the turmoil of the Japanese invasion and the chaos of the civil war between Nationalists and Communists. They married in Hong Kong as newly arrived refugees from the...
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