Guan Moye (管谟业), better known by the pen name Mo Yan (莫言), is a Chinese novelist and short-story writer famous for his imaginative and humanistic fiction, which were widely popular in the 1980s. In 2012, Mo Yan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, bringing him a second round of fame.To We...

Jackie Chan is undoubtedly the most renowned Chinese actor in the world. After first establishing his martial arts prowess in his native Hong Kong and then Southeast Asia, he took his massive success in Hollywood.Jackie Chen is famed for bringing humor to kung fu movies and, over the course of appea...

Bruce Leewas a Hong Kong-American martial artist and actor whose career spanned Hong Kong and the United States. He was the founder of Jeet Kune Do, a hybrid martial arts philosophy drawing from different combat disciplines that is often credited with paving the way for modern mixed martial arts (MM...

Li Jiacheng is revered as one of the most influential businessmen in China as well as in Asia. Nicknamed “Superman”, the 94-year-old Chinese entrepreneur is the richest person in Hong Kong, with an estimated net wealth of US$36.2 billion (as of 2022). His companies were involved in real estate, po...

Yang Zhenning is one of the most famous Chinese scientists. He is a theoretical physicist whose research with Tsung-Dao Lee, a Chinese-American physicist, disproved the law of conservation of parity, concerning the interactions of fundamental nuclear particles. The pair shared the 1957 Nobel Prize i...

Zheng He, a Chinese Muslim eunuch that lived during the early Ming dynasty, is one of the greatest explorers in the history of mankind. Funded by the Ming emperor, he led seven epic voyages between 1405 and 1433 west from China across the Indian Ocean to the east coast of Africa and deep into the Pe...