name	Stephen Chow
image size	175 px
tradchinesename
simpchinesename
pinyinchinesename	Zhōu Xīng Chí
jyutpingchinesename	zau1 sing1 ci4
birth name	Chiau Sing-chi
ancestry	Ningbo, Zhejiang
birth date	June 22, 1962
birth place	Hong Kong
othername	(''lit.'' Grandmaster Sing) 周星星
occupation	Actor, Screenwriter, Director, Producer
yearsactive	1981 – present
parents	Lin Bo Yee ( Mother )
hongkongfilmwards	Best Actor2002 ''Shaolin Soccer'' Best Director2002 ''Shaolin Soccer''
goldenbauhiniaawards	Best Actor1996 ''A Chinese Odyssey'' Best Director2002 ''Shaolin Soccer''
hkfcsawards	Best Actor1996 ''A Chinese Odyssey''
goldenhorseawards	Best Director2005 ''Kung Fu Hustle''Best Supporting Actor1988 ''Final Justice''
tvbanniversaryawards	Jade Lifetime Achievement Award1999
awards	Asia Pacific Film FestivalBest Actor1992 ''Justice, My Foot''Blue Ribbon AwardsBest Foreign Language Film2003 ''Shaolin Soccer''Amsterdam Fantastic Film FestivalSilver Scream Award2005 ''Kung Fu Hustle'' }}

Stephen Chow Sing-Chi (}}, born 22 June 1962) is a Hong Kong actor, comedian, screenwriter, film director and producer.

Professional career

Stephen Chow began as a temporary actor for TVB. He entered TVB in early 1980s, and was trained there, although he had few opportunities to appear in films. Chow graduated from TVB's acting classes in 1982. Chow began to find some success with the children programme ''430 Space Shuttle'', which he co-hosted with Tony Leung Chiu-Wai.

In 1987, Chow entered into the movie industry through the film ''Final Justice'', which won him the Taiwan Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor.

While Chow became quite well known on TVB for his comedies (especially 1989's ''The Final Combat''), he shot to stardom in 1990's ''All for the Winner''. This film made him and his older sidekick Ng Man-Tat two of the most sought-after stars in the Hong Kong film industry. Chow would collaborate with Ng on many of his more successful comedies, including ''Shaolin Soccer''. Chow became Hong Kong's undisputed No. 1 comedian, taking over the mantle of Michael Hui. Unlike Hui, Chow's comedies are of the mo lei tau genre. With his expert comic timing and "rubber-faced mannerisms", Chow ranked alongside Andy Lau, Chow Yun-fat and Jackie Chan as the major box office draws of the 1990s.

In 1994 Chow began directing films, starting with ''From Beijing with Love'', which he co-directed with Lee Lik-Chi. In the later half of the 1990s, mainland China began to warm to Stephen Chow movies. His film duology ''A Chinese Odyssey'' (1994) became (and remains) a cult classic in mainland China, baffling many Hong Kong observers, as the duology did only moderately well in Hong Kong. Nonetheless, on the mainland Chow rapidly became one of Hong Kong's most iconic film stars.

In 2001 his film ''Shaolin Soccer'' grossed over 60 million HK dollars. The film won Best picture, and Chow won Best Actor and Best Director at the 2002 Hong Kong Film Awards, receiving a total of seven wins from 2001–2003, including the Blue Ribbon Award for Best Foreign Language Film and the Golden Bauhinia Award for Best Picture and Best Director. It was his first international hit and established his reputation in the West. In 2004 he directed the film ''Kung Fu Hustle'' winning 18 awards including BAFTA Best Film not in the English Language, five Golden Horse Awards and six Hong Kong Film Awards.

Chow's film ''CJ7'' began filming in July 2006 in the eastern Chinese port of Ningbo. In August 2007 the film was given the title ''CJ7'' (長江七號 ''Chang Jiang qi hao''), a play on China's successful Shenzhou manned space missions—Shenzhou 5 and Shenzhou 6. This film introduced newcomer Kitty Zhang as his romantic lead. In 2011, news was released that Chow had started work on a new Chinese Odyssey project. He is to star as well as co-direct, produce and screenwrite. He is to co-direct with Derek Kwok. Other names have included for the project are Anthony Wong, Show Luo and Shu Qi The film is to be more CGI based than the original version.

The Way to Success

Stephen Chow has been greatly influenced by Bruce Lee who is known as a world-famous Kung fu star. In Chow's youth life, he had decided to become a Kung fu star as Bruce at first. In 1982, Chow decided to enter himself for the 11th TVB actors training class with his friend Tony Leung Chiu-Wai. However, Leung was admitted, but Chow was not. But Chow didn't give up, he enrolled in the night courses of TVB acting class. After graduated, he had starring as carefree for almost one year, in this period, a soldier belonged to Song Dynasty who just had two lines in The Legend of the Condor Heroes (1982 TV series) (射雕英雄傳(1983 TV series)）. In 1983, he became a host in a children TV show 430 Space Shuttle. Until in TV series Final Combat ( 蓋世豪俠, 1989) he started perform the leading role. Moreover, in 1990, the movie God of Gamblers II in All for the Winner series pushed Chow into a famous and successful pathway.

Influence

In the whole 1990s, Chow had made lots of famous movies and his movie style has known as Mo lei tau (無厘頭），which means mindless; a rather crass form of humour he often employs in movies. Chow often casts relatively new young actresses to play opposite him, especially as romantic leads, and many of these actresses have gone on to have successful film or music careers of their own. These actresses are collectively called the "Sing girls", and include Karen Mok, Vicki Zhao, Sharla Cheung, Athena Chu, Michelle Reis, Christy Chung, Gigi Leung, Cecilia Cheung, Huang Shengyi, and Zhang Yuqi.

Filmography

''Faithfully Yours'' ''My Father's Son'' ''He Who Chases After the Wind'' '''' ''The Justice of Life'' ''Dragon Fight'' ''Tragic Heroes'' ''Thunder Cops II'' ''Final Combat'' ''Love Is Love (film) ''My Hero (1990 film) ''Lung Fung Restaurant'' '''' ''Curry and Pepper'' ''Sleazy Dizzy'' ''Look Out, Officer!'' ''All for the Winner'' ''When Fortune Smiles'' ''Triad Story'' ''Legend of the Dragon (1990 film) ''God of Gamblers II'' '''' ''Fist of Fury 1991'' ''Fight Back to School'' ''God of Gamblers III: Back to Shanghai'' '''' '''' ''Crazy Safari'' ''Tricky Brains'' ''Fist of Fury 1991 II'' '''' ''All's Well, Ends Well'' ''Fight Back to School II'' ''Justice, My Foot!'' ''Royal Tramp'' ''Royal Tramp II'' ''King of Beggars'' ''Fight Back to School III'' ''My Hero 2'' ''Flirting Scholar'' '''' ''Love on Delivery'' ''Hail the Judge'' ''From Beijing with Love'' '''' '''' ''Out of the Dark 1995 film ''Sixty Million Dollar Man'' ''Forbidden City Cop'' '''' ''All's Well, Ends Well 1997'' ''Lawyer Lawyer'' '''' ''King of Comedy (1999 film) ''Gorgeous (film) '''' ''Shaolin Soccer'' ''Kung Fu Hustle'' ''CJ7'' ''Shaolin Girl'' ''Dragonball Evolution'' ''Jump (film) ''CJ7: The Cartoon'' ''New Chinese Odyssey'' ''3 Idiots'' (Remake)

width="50px"	Year	Title	Role	Notes
1988	Final Justice (1988 film)>Final Justice''	Ah Wai
1988	|	Puddin Lai
1988	|		Television Series
1988	|
1988	|	Lau Ting Kin
1989	|	Ho Kam Shui	Television series
1989	|	Yau
1989	|
1989	|
1989	|		Television series
1990	Love Is Love'' ||
1990	My Hero'' ||
1990	|	Rubbish Pool	Supporting roles
1990	|
1990	|
1990	|
1990	|
1990	|	Sing
1990	|
1990	|
1990	Legend of the Dragon'' ||	Lung
1991	|	Sing
1991	|		Cameo
1991	|	Lau Jing
1991	|	Star Chow
1991	|	Sing
1991	|
1991	|
1991	|	Narrator
1991	|	Koo Jing/Che Man Jing
1992	|	Lau Jing
1992	|
1992	|	Foon
1992	|	Star Chow
1992	|	Sung Sai Kit
1992	|	Wei Xiaobao>Wei Siu Bo
1992	|	Wei Xiaobao>Wei Siu Bo
1992	|	So Chan
1993	|	Star Chow
1993	|		Cameo
1993	|	Tong Pak Fu
1993	|
1994	|	Ho Kam An
1994	|	Bao Sing
1994	|	Ling Ling Tsat	Also writer and director
1994	|	Joker/Sun Wukong
1994	|	Joker/Sun Wukong
1995	Out of the Dark'' ||
1995	|	Lee Chak Sing
1996	|	Ling Ling Fat	Also writer and director
1996	|	Stephen Chow	Also writer and director
1997	|	Lo Kung
1997	|
1998	|
1999	King of Comedy'' ||	Wan Tin-Sau	Also writer and director
1999	Gorgeous'' ||	Cop	Cameo
1999	|
2001	|	Sing	Also writer and director
2004	|	Sing	Also writer and director
2008	|	Chow Ti	Also writer and director
2008	|		Producer
2009	|		Producer
2009	Jump'' ||		Producer; story
2010	|		Produce; presenter; screenwriter
2012	|	(Role currently unknown)
2012	|	(Role currently unknown)

Work introduction

In 1999, Stephen Chow wrote, direct, and perform in a movie called King of Comedy, which is commonly known as his own opinion base on his experiences. This movie talked about a walkingon actor’s hard life, just like when Chow suffered during his early life. Chow also didn’t forget his dream of Kung-Fu. In 21st century, he made two quite famous movies about Kung-Fu called Shaolin Soccer (2001) and Kung Fu Hustle (2004). In these movies, the main characters may be poor, contemptible, and lonely, after suffering many unfair and dangerous events, it just helps to remind them of the most peaceful memory in the beginning of life. He showed his purport and trust toward Kung-Fu: the real success is the serenest understanding of life. This thought is shown as the Shaolin Kung-Fu in Shaolin Soccor, and also as the Palm of Ru Lai (如來神掌) in Kung Fu Hustle.

Awards

Awards won
	* 2005: Silver Scream Award for ''Kung Fu Hustle''
	* 1999: Best Actor for ''Justice, My Foot''
	* 2003: Best Foreign Language Film for ''Shaolin Soccer''
	* 2002: Best Director for ''Shaolin Soccer''
	* 2005: Best Picture, Best Director for ''Kung Fu Hustle''
	* 2002: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best New Director, Best Director for ''Shaolin Soccer''	* 2003: Best Picture for ''Kung Fu Hustle''
	A Chinese Odyssey>A Chinese Odyssey Part One: Pandora's Box''
	* 2006: nomination: Best Foreign Language Film for ''Kung Fu Hustle''

See also

Cinema of Hong Kong

Cinema of China

References

External links

Category:1962 births Category:Living people Category:Best Actor HKFA Category:Best Director HKFA Category:TVB veteran actors Category:Hong Kong actors Category:Hong Kong comedians Category:Hong Kong film directors Category:Hong Kong film producers Category:Hong Kong writers

da:Stephen Chow de:Stephen Chow es:Stephen Chow fr:Stephen Chow ko:저우싱츠 id:Stephen Chow it:Stephen Chow jv:Stephen Chow hu:Stephen Chow ms:Stephen Chow nl:Stephen Chow ja:周星馳 no:Stephen Chow pl:Stephen Chow pt:Stephen Chow ru:Чоу, Стивен fi:Stephen Chow sv:Stephen Chow ta:ஸ்டீபன் சௌ th:โจว ซิงฉือ tr:Stephen Chow vi:Châu Tinh Trì wuu:周星驰 zh-yue:周星馳 zh:周星馳

name	Teresa Carpio
tradchinesename	杜麗莎
simpchinesename	杜丽莎
pinyinchinesename	Dù Lìshā
jyutpingchinesename	Dou6 Lai6 Saa1
ancestry	Philippines, Hong Kong
origin	Hong Kong
birth date	September 30, 1956
birth place	Hong Kong
occupation	Singer, Actor
genre	pop, Cantopop
instrument	Vocals, piano
yearsactive	1975 - present
partner	Peter Ken MuiAndreas Panayi
children	T.V. CarpioAlexias PanayiSerena Panayi
parents	Fernando Carpio (1932-present)
awards	Golden Needle Awards2007 Lifetime Achievement }}

Teresa Carpio is a Hong Kong English pop and Cantopop singer, actor and singing teacher, born in Hong Kong. She is the mother of singer T. V. Carpio.

Family background

Carpio's father is Filipino and her mother Chinese. Born into a musical family. (Her grandfather was a concert violinist and jazz guitarist, her father Fernando, a jazz drummer, and several uncles were also professional musicians.) Carpio began her career as a child star, winning Hong Kong's first Amateur Talent Quest in 1963 at the age of 6.

Career

For several years from 1975 onwards Carpio had her own TV variety show in Hong Kong, on which she performed both solo and with several of her siblings. She released many albums in Hong Kong from 1976 onwards; her early releases under EMI such as the EMI's "Sound Hit" series on vinyl record. Eventually six of her album under EMI went gold, in which she featured cover versions in English of western hits, including an album with George Lam. She made numerous television appearances in Hong Kong, in the late 1970s.

Carpio was the first and the youngest Hong Kong singer ever, to appear on national TV, in Japan. She has performed in many other countries as far apart as Singapore, Malaysia, Tahiti,Australia, Japan, Thailand, Brunei, the USA and Canada.

With the growing popularity of Cantopop, Carpio started to record in Cantonese along with English, remaining popular despite increasing competition from newer stars, notably Anita Mui. Carpio broadened her career into acting with appearances in a number of films, and auditioned for the lead role in Miss Saigon. Though this eventually went to Lea Salonga, Teresa took the lead role in the 1979 San Jose, California production of the stage musical ''City of Broken Promises'', based on the book by Austin Coates, a story set in Macau which won "Best Original Musical" for 1975. Another starring stage role was in 68 performances of ''I Have A Date With Spring'' in Hong Kong in 2001. Carpio appeared on the cover of the December 1986 issue of the Hong Kong edition of Playboy magazine, which featured a topless pictorial of her.

In 1980, Carpio sang for a charity in Penang, Malaysia to help save the life of a 14 year old girl needing heart surgery. She helped raise $8000 Dollars.

Following her second marriage, Carpio moved to Canada and focused her attention on bringing up her family (she has three daughters; the eldest, T. V. Carpio, by her first marriage, also an actor, singer and songwriter). However, Carpio still makes occasional concert appearances, including a series of performances with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra in 2003 that became a Hong Kong bestseller on CD and DVD.

Carpio now teaches singing to children, and has established her own music schools in Canada and Hong Kong. She has also coached Hong Kong stars including Sandy Lam, Sammi Cheng, Jade Kwan, Cecilia Cheung, Joey Yung, Gigi Leung, Alex To, Edmund Leung, Twins, Wong Cho Lam and many more. Gigi Leung and other popular local singers including Jacky Cheung and George Lam have appeared as guest performers in some of Carpio's concerts. She and Lam gave a series of joint concerts at the Hong Kong Coliseum in 2007. More recently she appeared on Hong Kong television as a judge and head vocal coach on season two of the singing competition ''The Voice''.

She lived in Springfield, Missouri with her second husband, journalist Andreas Panayi. She has since moved and resides in Hong Kong again.

References

External links

Teresa Carpio, Asia's First Lady of Song - Official website; includes an incomplete discography

HK cinemagic entry

Category:Hong Kong singers Category:Hong Kong film actors Category:Living people Category:1956 births Category:Cantopop singers Category:Hong Kong English-language singers Category:Hong Kong people of Filipino descent

es:Teresa Carpio id:Teresa Carpio ja:テレサ・カルピオ sv:Teresa Carpio zh:杜麗莎

Mainland China, the Chinese mainland or simply the mainland, is a geopolitical term that refers to the area under the jurisdiction of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The term generally excludes the PRC Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau.

There are two terms in Chinese for "mainland". Namely, ''Dalu'' (), which means "continent", and ''Neidi'' (内地 / 內地), literally "inner land". In the PRC, the usage of the two terms are generally interchangeable and there is no prescribed method of reference in any jurisdiction. To emphasize "equal footing" in cross-strait relations, the term is used in official contexts with reference to Taiwan, with the PRC referring to itself as "the mainland side" (as opposed to "the Taiwan side"). But in its relations with Hong Kong and Macau, the PRC government refers to itself as "the Central People's Government".

Background

By 1949, the Communist Party of China's (CPC) People's Liberation Army had largely defeated the Kuomintang (KMT)'s National Revolutionary Army in the Chinese Civil War on the mainland. This forced the Kuomintang to relocate the Government and institutions of the Republic of China to the relative safety of Taiwan, an island which was placed under the control of the Republic of China after the surrender of Japan at the end of World War II in 1945. With the establishment of the People's Republic of China on October 1, 1949, the CPC-controlled government saw itself as the sole legitimate government of China, competing with the claims of the Republic of China, whose authority is now limited to Taiwan and other islands. This has resulted in a situation in which two co-existing governments compete for international legitimacy and recognition as the "government of China".

The phrase "mainland China" emerged as a politically neutral term to refer to the area under control of the Communist Party of China, and later to the administration of the PRC itself. Until the late 1970s, both the PRC and ROC envisioned a military takeover of the other. During this time the ROC referred to the PRC government as "Communist Bandits" (共匪) while the PRC referred to the ROC as "Chiang Bandits" (蔣匪). Later, as a military solution became less feasible, the ROC referred to the PRC as "Communist China"" (中共). With the democratization of Taiwan in the 1990s, the phrase mainland China soon grew to mean not only the area under the control of the Communist Party of China, but also a more neutral means to refer to the People's Republic of China government; this usage remains prevalent by the KMT today.

Due to their status as colonies of foreign states during the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the phrase "mainland China" excludes Hong Kong and Macau. Since the return of Hong Kong and Macau to Chinese sovereignty in 1997 and 1999, respectively, the two territories have retained their legal, political, and economic systems. The territories also have their distinct identities. Therefore "mainland China" generally continues to exclude these territories, because of the "One country, two systems" policy adopted by the PRC central government towards the regions. The term is also used in economic indicators, such as the IMD Competitiveness Report. International news media often use "China" to refer only to mainland China or the People's Republic of China.

Usage of the term

In Taiwan

In Taiwan, the term "mainland" is often used to refer to mainland China (Hong Kong and Macau excluded), by the Kuomintang (KMT, "Chinese Nationalist Party") and its supporters, who share the view that ''China'' encompasses both sides of the Taiwan Strait. Since the KMT was the long-time ruling party in Taiwan, the term is in mainstream use in Taiwan and often has no political implications. Government organizations and official and legal documents in Taiwan also use "the mainland" to refer to mainland China. In contrast, the pro-Taiwan independence Democratic Progressive Party use the term "the Chinese mainland" to imply that Taiwan is separate from China.

In Taiwan, under the concept of "Mainlander" another comparative term often used is ''waishengren'' (), which are the people who immigrated to Taiwan from mainland China with the Kuomintang (KMT) around the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949, as well as their descendants born in Taiwan. The status of ''waishengren'' in Taiwan is a divisive political issue. For many years certain groups of mainlanders were given special treatment by the KMT government which had imposed martial law on Taiwan. More recently, pro-Taiwan independence politicians calling into question their loyalty and devotion to Taiwan and pro-Chinese reunification politicians accusing the pro-independence politicians of playing identity politics. The term "Mainlander" mostly refers to ''daluren'' (), meaning people who live in mainland China.

In the United States' Taiwan Relations Act, the ROC-controlled islands of Quemoy and Matsu were excluded from the definition of "Taiwan", and are regarded as parts of mainland China. The House Foreign Affairs Committee justified this exclusion on the grounds that "Quemoy and Matsu are considered by both Taipei and by Peking to be part of mainland China." Quemoy and Matsu are geologically part of the continental mainland.

In Hong Kong and Macau

In Hong Kong and Macau, the terms "mainland China" and "mainlander" are frequently used for people from China mainland. This usage is not geographically accurate, however, as much of the land area of both Hong Kong and Macau are peninsulas connected to the continent. The Chinese term 內地, meaning the ''inland'' but still translated ''mainland'' in English, is commonly applied by SAR governments to represent non-SAR areas of PRC, including Hainan and coastal regions of mainland China, such as "Constitutional and Mainland Affairs" (政制及內地事務局) and Immigration Departments.

In the Mainland and Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (as well as the Mainland and Macau Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement) the CPG also uses the Chinese characters 内地 "inner land", with the note that they refer to the "customs territory of China".

In mainland China

In the PRC, the term 内地 ("Inland") is often contrasted with the term 境外 ("outside of the border") for things outside of the mainland region. Examples include "Administration of Foreign-funded Banks" (中華人民共和國外資銀行管理條例) or the "Measures on Administration of Representative Offices of Foreign Insurance Institutions" (外國保險機構駐華代表機構管理辦法).

Hainan is an offshore island, therefore geographically not part of the continental mainland. Nevertheless, politically it is common practice to consider it part of the mainland because its government, legal and political systems do not differ from the rest of People's Republic of China in the geographical mainland. Nonetheless, Hainanese people still refer to the geographic mainland as "the mainland" and call its residents "mainlanders".

Others

Other use of geography-related terms are also often used where neutrality is required.

{|class="wikitable" ! width=10% | SimplifiedChinese ! width=10% | TraditionalChinese ! width=10% | Pinyin ! width=10% | Jyutping ! width=60% | Description |- |海峡两岸||海峽兩岸||Hǎixiá liǎng'àn||hoi2 haap6 loeng5 ngon6||The physical shores on both sides of the straits, may be translated as "two shores". |- |两岸关系||兩岸關係||liǎng'àn guānxì||loeng5 ngon6 gwaan1 hai6||Reference to the Taiwan Strait (cross-Strait relations, literally "relations between the two sides/shores [of the Strait of Taiwan]"). |- |两岸三地||兩岸三地||liǎng'àn sāndì||loeng5 ngon6 saam1 dei6||An extension of this is the phrase "two shores, three places", with "three places" meaning mainland China (大陸/大陆), Taiwan (臺灣/台湾) and either Hong Kong (香港) or Macau (澳門/澳门). |- |两岸四地||兩岸四地||liǎng'àn sìdì||loeng5 ngon6 sei3 dei6||When referring to either Hong Kong or Macau, or "two shores, four places" when referring to both Hong Kong (香港) and Macau (澳門/澳门). |- |}

See also

Mainland

Mainlander

Greater China

Sinosphere

Free China

Free Area of the Republic of China

Maritime China

References

Sources

http://www.imd.ch/research/publications/wcy/World-Competitiveness-Yearbook-2008-Results.cfm

External links

Economic profile for mainland China at HKTDC

Category:Territorial disputes of the People's Republic of China Category:Territorial disputes of the Republic of China

ar:بر الصين الرئيسي bs:Kontinentalna Kina ca:Xina continental da:Fastlandskina de:Festlandchina es:China continental eo:Ĉeftera Ĉinio fr:Chine continentale gd:Tìr-mòr na Sìne ko:중국 대륙 hr:Kontinentalna Kina id:Cina Daratan it:Cina continentale sw:Uchina Bara hu:Kontinentális Kína ms:Tanah besar China cdo:Dṳ̆ng-guók Dâi-lṳ̆k nl:Vasteland van China ja:中国大陸 no:Fastlandskina nn:Fastlandskina pt:China continental ru:Континентальный Китай simple:Mainland China sr:Копнена Кина fi:Manner-Kiina sv:Fastlandskina vi:Trung Quốc đại lục zh-yue:中國大陸 zh:中国大陆