Traces of a Dragon

Director: Mabel Cheung
Genre: Documentary, Chinese Movies
Year: 2003
Country: Hong Kong, China
Language: Chinese language, Standard Mandarin, Standard Cantonese
Starring: Jackie Chan, Ti Lung

Traces of a Dragon (Chinese: 龍的深處:失落的拼圖; 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 Sing Lung (成龍); which means “Becoming the Dragon”). The official record gives his birth name as Chan Kong Sang (陳港生). But two years ago Jackie Chan found out from his father that his ‘real’ name is Fong Si Lung/Fang Shilong (房仕龍). 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-Ping (陳志平) 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 Communist revolution, and Jackie was their only child. But both of them had been married before … Chan Chi-Ping (at that time going by his real

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