Posted 11:24 AM by Blah blah

I've added these photos from Leslie Cheung's funeral to my post about his death. Nicole Tan, on his fan club message board, also translated two touching articles from Chinese about what happened at his funeral. Article 1. Article 2.

Jackie Chan's Parents

Enter the parents Did you know Jackie Chan's mother was an opium smuggler and his father was a spy? Neither did he. (The Guardian):

"How could they abandon their kids like that? It's a question that Mabel Cheung has been asked again and again since unveiling her film, Traces of the Dragon: Jackie Chan and His Lost Family. The documentary reveals some devastating family secrets that its subject, Hong Kong superstar Jackie Chan, has only recently learned himself....Jackie Chan is one of the best-known movie stars in the world. Given the exhaustive attention that fans pay to the private lives of their idols, it seems extraordinary that neither he nor anyone else knew the true story of his own family background.

Rumours had been swirling round Hong Kong for years that Jackie Chan wasn't his real name and that he was adopted, but no one suspected that he would turn out to have two brothers still alive and living impoverished, anonymous lives in mainland China. Nor did they have any inkling that Jackie's mother had once been a legendary gambler in the Shanghai underworld or that his father had been a Nationalist spy and gangland boss....

It struck [Cheung], though, that this was an emblematic tale. 'Every single Chinese family has a story more or less like this,' she observes."