Grew up in Boston, Massachusetts (USA), he joined one of the teen-age gangs in Boston'sChinatown, collecting protection money from local Chinese business. Hismother, a Tai Chi master, sent him to mainland China to further study his kung fu, where hetrained alongside with Jet Li. In 1982, he was named by Inside Kung Fumagazine as the ``Best Martial Artist of the Year''. On his way back to theU.S., he stopped over in Hong Kong, where his mentor, Yuen Woo-Ping,convinced him to be an actor. |