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The 'W' Files
''The 'W' Files'' (衛斯理) is a 2003 Hong Kong science fantasy-action-adventure-mystery television period drama serial based on Ni Kuang's novel series ''Wisely Series'', starring Gallen Lo as Wisely. The series was first broadcast on TVB in Hong Kong from 2 June to 11 July 2003. The 30-episodes long series contains a total of eight different stories, set in China in the 1930s. Plot In the 1930s, Wisely returns to China from his overseas studies and runs a detective agency in Shanghai to investigate paranormal events. He meets a doctor named Pak So and she becomes his love interest, but they encounter several trials and tribulations to test their love before they finally get together. The series is divided into eight different stories, with Wisely and his team setting off to investigate and crack each mystery case. The stories are listed as follows: *''Paper Monkey'' (紙猴) *''Deadly Body Change'' (屍變) *''Charcoal'' (木炭) *''Searching Dreams'' (尋夢) *''Bug Suspect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Period Drama
A historical drama (also period drama, period piece or just period) is a dramatic work set in the past, usually used in the context of film and television, which presents history, historical events and characters with varying degrees of fiction such as artistic license, creative dialogue or scenes which compress separate events. The biographical film is a type of historical drama which generally focuses on a single individual or well-defined group. Historical dramas can include romance film, romances, adventure films, and swashbucklers. Historical drama can be differentiated from historical fiction, which generally present fictional characters and events against a backdrop of historical events. A period piece may be set in a vague or general era such as the Middle Ages, or a specific period such as the Roaring Twenties, or the recent past. Scholarship In different eras different subgenres have risen to popularity, such as the westerns and sword and sandal films that dominated Nor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shanghai
Shanghai, Shanghainese: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China. The city is located on the Chinese shoreline on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flowing through it. The population of the city proper is the List of largest cities, second largest in the world after Chongqing, with around 24.87 million inhabitants in 2023, while the urban area is the List of cities in China by population, most populous in China, with 29.87 million residents. As of 2022, the Greater Shanghai metropolitan area was estimated to produce a gross metropolitan product (GDP (nominal), nominal) of nearly 13 trillion Renminbi, RMB ($1.9 trillion). Shanghai is one of the world's major centers for finance, #Economy, business and economics, research, science and technology, manufacturing, transportation, List of tourist attractions in Shanghai, tourism, and Culture of Shanghai, culture. The Port of Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tsui Wing
Tsui Wing (born August 7, 1974) is a Hong Kong actor contracted to TVB. Tsui is best known for his roles as "Kau Chun" in the 2007-2008 sitcom '' Best Selling Secrets'' and "Ma Keung" in the 2012-2015 sitcom ''Come Home Love ''Come Home Love'' (; literally "Love, Return Home") is a Hong Kong sitcom created and produced by TVB. Premiering on TVB Jade on May 14, 2012, the series was originally intended for 180 episodes but extended multiple times, before finally conc ...''. Filmography Television dramas References {{DEFAULTSORT:Tsui, Wing 1974 births Hong Kong male actors TVB actors Living people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benz Hui
Benz Hui Shiu-hung (born 4 November 1948) is a Hong Kong film and TV actor. Hui is credited with over 165 films. Hui is a currently a TV actor with TVB. Early life and family Hui comes from an influential family in Canton. His great-grandfather was a godson of Empress Dowager Cixi and served as an imperial official during the late Qing dynasty. Hui's great-aunt, Xu Guangping (Cantonese: Hui Kwong-ping), was married to the writer Lu Xun. His granduncle Xu Chongzhi (Cantonese: Hui Chung-chi) was a founder of the Whampoa Military Academy, while his other granduncle Xu Chongqing (Cantonese: Hui Chung-ching) once served as an education minister of Canton. His name "Benz" was inspired by " Mercedes-Benz", as he was the first ATV actor to drive a Mercedes-Benz to work. Career In 1972, Hui started his acting career. Hui first appeared in Young People, a 1972 film directed by Chang Cheh. Hui started his acting career in supporting roles of various television series. He also joined ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suet Nei
Hung Suet-nei (; born September 27, 1945), known as Suet Nei or Suet Nay (), is a former Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ... actress. She is a veteran actress, having acted for many years. She has starred in martial arts Cantonese operas, due to her skill in martial arts. She signed with TVB in 1997. Filmography Television series References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Suet Nei TVB veteran actors Living people 1946 births ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halina Tam
Halina Tam Siu-Wan, also known as May (born 6 September 1972) is a model, singer and actress. She is best known for her role in '' Legend of the Demigods'' and '' The Gentle Crackdown'' with co-star Wayne Lai. Career Tam was the winner of the Miss Hong Kong Pageant 1994. She went on to represent Hong Kong at the Miss Chinese International 1995 pageant where she placed in the top 5, resulting in a berth at Miss Universe 1995 where she placed 45th. She had a singing career with BMG (Hong Kong) in 1997 and worked as an actress with TVB in Hong Kong. She also hosted ''Leisure and Pleasure'' from 2008 to 2010 and co-hosted ''Destiny and Beyond'' for the network. She left TVB after 18 years of working for the network, having last appeared on screen in 2012. Personal life Halina married her boyfriend Eric Choi on 11 September 2007. She opened her first craft supplies store in 2013 and continued with a small snack shop in Causeway Bay in March 2014. Since December 2024, Halina and Er ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Green Gang
The Green Gang ( zh, t=青幫, p=Qīng Bāng) was a Chinese secret society and criminal organization, which was prominent in criminal, social and political activity in Shanghai during the early to mid 20th century. History Origins As a secret society, the origins and history of the Green Gang are complex. The society has its roots in the Luojiao, a Buddhist sect founded by Luo Qing (羅清) in the mid-Ming dynasty; during the early 18th century in the Qing dynasty, the sect was introduced among workers involved in the transport of grain along the Grand Canal via the efforts of three sworn brothers: Weng Yan (翁岩), Qian Jian (錢堅) and Pan Qing (潘清). Luoist groups mixed with the pre-existing societies for grain transport boatmen along the Canal, providing services such as burials and hostels, and also served as a social organization for the boatmen. However, they were perceived as a threat by the authorities, and in 1768 the Qianlong Emperor ordered the destruction of L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiona Yuen
Fiona Yuen Choi Wan (; born 20 January 1976 in Cologne) is a German-born Hong Kong model and actress. Yuen went to Hong Kong and took part in the 1996 Miss Hong Kong Pageant, where she was second runner-up and won the Miss International Goodwill award. She speaks German, French, English, Mandarin Chinese, Mandarin, Cantonese and Hakka language, Hakka fluently, for she is ancestrally of Dongguan Hakka origins although she is a Cantonese-speaking Hongkonger born in Germany. In 2010, it was announced that she would leave the entertainment and move to Vancouver to start a new life. She is currently under ATV Home, a local Hong Kong television station, as a host and program Television presenter, presenter. Television series *''A Kindred Spirit'' (1995) *''Rural Hero'' (1998) *''The Legend Of Lady Yang'' (2000) *''A Matter of Customs'' (2000) *''Crimson Sabre'' (2000) *''Healing Hands II'' (2000) *''Gods of Honour'' (2001) *''At Point Blank (TV series), At Point Blank'' (2001) *''Loft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mak Cheung-ching
Evergreen Mak Cheung-ching (, born 18 December 1968), better known as Makbau (麥包), is a Hong Kong actor. He had been an actor with TVB for more than 30 years. Early life Mak was born in Shunde District, Foshan, China, and his ancestral hometown is Qingyuan, Guangdong province. Career Mak was praised for his portrayal of the main antagonist, Leung Fei-fan (Fei Fan Gor), in the 2010 TVB drama ''No Regrets'', for which he won the TVB Anniversary Award for Best Supporting Actor. He also won the Best Actor in a Supporting Role award in the Asian Television Awards 2011 for the same role. He is also known for his voiceover work for cartoons, as well a children show host for ''Flash Fax and ''After School ICU. Mak made his mainland China debut in May 2021 after working with TVB for three decades. His final acting role with TVB was in 2015's '' Captain of Destiny'' and he left TVB in 2019 when his contract expired. He was one of a score of former TVB artists who moved foll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Of The Republic Of China
The history of the Republic of China began in 1912 with the end of the Qing dynasty, when the 1911 Revolution, Xinhai Revolution and the formation of the Republic of China (1912–1949), Republic of China put an end to 2,000 years of imperial rule. The Republic experienced many trials and tribulations after its founding which included being dominated by elements as disparate as warlord generals and foreign powers. In 1928, the Republic was nominally unified under the Kuomintang (KMT; also called "Chinese Nationalist Party") after the Northern Expedition, and was in the early stages of industrialization and modernization when it was caught in the conflicts involving the Kuomintang government, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), local Warlord Era, warlords, and the Empire of Japan. Most nation-building efforts were stopped during the full-scale Second Sino-Japanese War against Japan from 1937 to 1945, and later the widening gap between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party made ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wisely
The ''Wisely Series'' is a series of Chinese-language adventure-science fiction novels written by the Hong Kong novelist Ni Kuang. The protagonist of the series is Wisely (sometimes also spelt "Wesley"). In total, there are 161 stories about Wisely recorded in 156 novels. Of these, only 150 stories in 145 novels are written by Ni Kuang; the remaining ones are written by other writers with Ni Kuang's permission. Some of these stories have been adapted into media, such as the films '' The Legend of Wisely'' (1987), ''The Cat'' (1992) and ''The Wesley's Mysterious File'' (2002), and the television series ''The New Adventures of Wisely'' (1998) and ''The 'W' Files'' (2004). Publishing history Ni Kuang wrote 150 ''Wisely'' stories in the form of 145 novels, most of which have a serial number to reflect the chronological order of their year of publication. There are 11 other ''Wisely'' stories written by other writers with Ni Kuang's permission. There are a total of 161 ''Wisely'' stor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fantasy
file:Warhammer40kcosplay.jpg, Cosplay of a character from the ''Warhammer 40,000'' tabletop game; one critic has characterized the game's setting as "action-oriented science-fantasy." Science fantasy is a hybrid genre within speculative fiction that simultaneously draws upon or combines trope (literature), tropes and elements from both science fiction and fantasy. In a conventional science fiction story, the world is presented as grounded by the laws of nature and comprehensible by science, while a conventional fantasy story contains mostly supernatural elements that do not obey the scientific laws of the real world. The world of science fantasy, however, is laid out to be scientifically logical and often supplied with hard science-like explanations of any supernatural elements.Eric R. Williams, ''The Screenwriters Taxonomy: A Collaborative Approach to Creative Storytelling''p. 121/ref> During the Golden Age of Science Fiction, science fantasy stories were seen in sharp contrast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
