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The Disciple of Jackie Chan

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This entry was posted on Monday, January 28th, 2008.

The Disciple is a Chinese television show on BTV (Beijing TV). It is jointly produced by Beijing TV, JCE Entertainment Ltd, China Film Group and Hong Kong-based Emperor Entertainment Group, the show is a search for China’s next best kung-fu actor.

The Disciple of Jackie Chan

Jackie Chan has launched reality show “The Disciple” aimed at discovering new kung fu talent. Anyone who believed they have talent was encouraged to audition. The 10 winners of the show appearing in a movie to be produced by Chan.

Now, the top 16 picks has come out, they are the final match between the winners of all previous matches in an elimination tournament.

They are: Haiyang Wang, Mingwu Hu, Xiang He, Changcheng Deng, Qian Hao, Shanshan Xiao, Yanan You, Jianming Luo, Yu Zhao, Manzu, Yanlong Wang.

and the overseas Chinese: Jacktu, Xin Wuku, Philip, Jingde He, Johnny Yang.

Among the 16 players, 5 of them come from abroad, they are expert at kung fu, and even better than local Chinese. Of course they are Chinese descent, but the question with that is why overseas Chinese are more harder than ours…


4 Responses to “The Disciple of Jackie Chan”

Nux
February 1st, 2008 at 12:36 am

well, perhaps overseas chinese has strong determination to prove to the world that they can do well?

when someone is representing their country/etnic in the international arena, they tend to perform better, much better than the locals, as the benchmark is being put higher.

USA baby
February 26th, 2008 at 12:15 pm

One of my friends is one of those five and he works hard, never sleeps, eats and breaths his craft. It’s his life.

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