Hung is one of the pivotal figures who spearheaded the Hong Kong New Wave movement of the 1980s, helped reinvent the martial arts genre and started the zombie-like jiangshi genre. He is widely credited with assisting many of his compatriots, giving them their starts in the Hong Kong film industry, by casting them in the films he produced, or giving them roles in the production crew. (Full article...)
Image 3A political advertisement written in Cantonese (from Culture of Hong Kong)
Image 4Wing Lung Wai, a walled village in Kam Tin; Hong Kong indigenous people built walled villages to protect themselves from rampant privates between 15th to 19th century. (from Culture of Hong Kong)
Image 5A Mazu temple in Shek Pai Wan; It clearly shows traits of classical Lingnan style - pale colour, rectangular structures, use of reliefs, among others. (from Culture of Hong Kong)
Image 8Pang uk in Tai O; Pang uks were built by Tanka people, who had the traditions of living above water and regarding it as an honour. (from Culture of Hong Kong)
Image 19Main building of University of Hong Kong; Being a former British colony, Hong Kong naturally has a lot of British architecture, especially in government buildings. (from Culture of Hong Kong)
Image 20China Airlines Boeing 747 crash landed and ended up in the harbour. (from History of Hong Kong)
Image 30Lion Rock is also symbolic of Hong Kong. Hong Kongers has a term - "Beneath the Lion Rock" (獅子山下) - which refers to their collective memory of Hong Kong in the second half of the 20th century. (from Culture of Hong Kong)
... that the newly opened shopping mall The Wai has Hong Kong's largest indoor bicycle parking lot?
... that YouTube channel Trial & Error's manner of selling live-show tickets—HK$10,000 on day one, $5,000 on day two, all the way to $10 on day 24—appeared on a university entrance exam?
... that Hong Kong wushu athlete Li Fai dropped out of the 1994 Asian Games after discovering she was pregnant?
... that Carmaney Wong was 25 years and 9 months old when she was crowned Miss Hong Kong 2019, making her the oldest champion in 30 years?
... that Terence Lam, who initially did not plan to become a singer, received ViuTV Chill Club's best male singer award and Commercial Radio Hong Kong's best new artist award?
... that the inspiration for the Hong Kong novel Sai Ying Pun came from the author oversleeping on a train?
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