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Yu Jim-yuen (September 5, 1905 – September 8, 1997) ( Chinese: 于占元; pinyin: Yú Zhānyuán; Jyutping: jyu1 zim1 jyun4) was a Chinese martial artist, actor, teacher and the master of the China Drama Academy, one of the main Peking Opera Schools in Hong Kong, from which Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao, Yuen Qiu, Yuen Wah, and Corey Yuen received t...
Yu Jim-yuen continued to teach martial arts and opera in the US, albeit without the same severity bestowed on the likes of Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao.
Because all the boys and girls in the school were “adopted” students of the master, Yu Jim Yuen, they took on his name, and underwent a brutal training regimen. This photo of the master was actually taken years after Jackie left the school, when he played a role in a kung fu movie, “The Old Master.”
Yu Jim-yuen, founder of the China Drama Academy, a Peking opera school in Hong Kong which trained future stars Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung Kam-bo and Yuen Biao, is the most cited Chinese opera ...
Sep 12, 1997 · Martial arts grandmaster Yu Jim-yuen, who died on Monday at the age of 94, made teaching his traditional brand of kung fu into his life's work.
Oct 1, 2022 · In Never Grow Up, Chan explained that when he was a child, he was enrolled in a boarding school called the China Drama Academy where he became a student of martial artist Master Yu Jim-Yuen.
Jul 18, 2021 · The Seven Little Fortunes were put together by Yu Jim-Yuen, the master of the China Drama Academy, a Peking Opera school in Hongkong in the 1960s. Later, the troupe expanded to as many as...
