Jimmy Wang Yu, the trailblazing martial artist who starred in classic Hong Kong movies Golden Swallow, One-Armed Swordsman and The Chinese Boxer and paved the way for the likes of Jackie Chan and ...

Jimmy Wang Yu, once a superstar of multiple Asian martial arts genres, died on Tuesday. He was 79. News of his death in a Taipei hospital was posted on social media by Wang’s daughter Linda, herself a ...

Prominent “709” Chinese human rights lawyer Wang Yu was taken away by police outside the US embassy in Beijing on Wednesday night, after she refused to identify herself to officers. Wang was the first ...

Jimmy Wang Yu at the 48th Golden Horse Awards in 2011. Credit: Imaginechina Limited / Alamy Stock Photo Taiwanese actor and One-Armed Swordsman star Jimmy Wang Yu has died at the age of 80. The news ...

Taiwanese actor and filmmaker Jimmy Wang Yu, one of the biggest stars of martial arts cinema, died in a Taipei hospital on Tuesday. He was 79. His success opened the door for other martial artists, ...

Jimmy Wang Yu's daughter Linda Wang announced her father died in a Taipei hospital on Tuesday via Instagram Shafiq Najib is a former writer-reporter at PEOPLE. He left PEOPLE in 2023. Jimmy Wang Yu, ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Beijing: After more than a year without legal representation, the re-emergence of Wang Yu, one of China's most prominent human rights ...

BEIJING — Wang Yu was a fearless human rights lawyer, defying political threats to defend abused schoolchildren, jailed feminists and persecuted minorities. That defiance steeled her against her ...

On July 9, human rights lawyer Wang Yu was detained from her Beijing home, becoming the first of nearly 300 rights activists and lawyers to be detained, questioned, prevented from travel, or otherwise ...

Jimmy Wang Yu battles crime lord George Lazenby in a scene from the film 'The Dragon Flies', 1975. (Photo by 20th Century-Fox/Getty Images) Taiwanese martial-arts film star Jimmy Wang Yu died on April ...