Chan Ching Wah (陈清华)

Chan Ching Wah (陈清华), a actress in the Cantonese opera Kun troupe in the 1950s and 1960s, and a Hong Kong movie star. Movies that she have filmed: New York's Chinatown Corpse (1961), Drunken and Golden Bough (1955). She is the female star Yi Qiushui befriended after he breaking up with the porn star Ma Xiaoying in the late 1930s. She gave birth to only son Yi Lei (James Yi) in 1943. Her screen debut was the Cantonese fashion literary film "Singing Girl White Peony" (released on February 15, 1939); during this period, she acted as the first heroine in the Cantonese opera "Zhou's Remarriage" (released on September 6, 1949, playing Zhou), Cantonese fashion literary film "Iron Arhat Bravely Rescue Jade Avalokitesvara" (released on November 19, 1949, playing Jade Avalokitesvara), Cantonese martial arts film "Xue Rengui Bloody Battle at Liujiazhuang" (released on March 2, 1950, playing Liu Jinhua ), also participated in the Xiamen language film "Daiyu's Return to Heaven" (released in Shilat on May 18, 1956), and participated in her last film "The Case of the Corpse in Chinatown, New York" (released on December 6, 1961) during her stay in the United States. , playing the role of the kitchen maid Ah Xiang), and participated in more than 30 films. In 1958, she immigrated to San Francisco, USA, and worked in the dining room most of the time. In the spring of 1979, she went back to Hong Kong for a small tour, and visited Tokyo and Hokkaido, Japan with her biological son Yi Lei.During the period, they also met Cantonese opera stars Ren Jianhui and Bai Xuexian.