Man-Fung Yip is assistant professor of Film & Media Studies at the University of Oklahoma. He has recently completed a book manuscript entitled Martial Arts Cinema and Hong Kong Modernity: Aesthetics, Representation, Circulation.
A still from the film Ten Years (2015).
When Hong Kong was returned to communist China in 1997 under the “one country, two systems” principle, no one really knew for sure what would happen t…