Born in San Francisco to globe-trotting parents, he became a child actor in Hong Kong, where he learned kung fu and became a dance champion.
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He should have produced more kung fu magazines and more memorabilia, and he should have written a second book on the heels of the first.
In January, in a New Year's address to Sinopec employees, Mr. Fu signaled that he expected foreign deal-making to continue.
He has worked with Wing Chun kung fu trainer Eric Oram since 2003.
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Liu's compatriot Ding Junhui also received a tough draw as he will face Hong Kong's Marco Fu.
He feared that chains used as whips in Kung Fu films could be copied by children.
Later, he bought the rights to Hong Kong Kung-Fu movies and sold them in Indonesia and markets farther in the South Pacific.
He and a friend were penning a hack biography of kung fu star Bruce Lee.
He became a master at wing-chun, the kung fu style best used for close-quarter fighting.
Aliens and he played Mantis, one the Furious Five, in Kung Fu Panda.
In Britain for the G20 summit in early April, he was caught on camera squirming in embarrassment at being seated next to Fu Ying, China's sophisticated ambassador to Britain (and, before that, Australia).
He fights the bad guys by flying through the air and engaging them in a rhythmic version of kung fu that has the clickety-clack excitement of tap dancing.
Indeed, he looked on the verge of getting himself a contract before being forced to cut short his chat to allow Fu - waiting patiently on the sidelines - his own chance to wax lyrical.
He was unlucky not to clinch his first major title at the 1999 British Open in Plymouth, beating Marco Fu, Paul Hunter, Mark Williams, Stephen Hendry and Jimmy Michie before going down 9-7 to Fergal O'Brien in a tense final.
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