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Rolling with life's cruel punches

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Why you can trust SCMP
Winnie Chung

The road, if one can call it that, up to Ma On Tsuen in the New Territories trails up a picturesque hillside. There is not a soul in sight until 10 minutes later when we see a bored driver catching 40 winks by the roadside.

The familiar tri-colour logo of TVB etched on the van tells us we are on the right track.

Another five minutes later, we see more vans and some young men squatting by the roadside, talking in rough street language. They point us in the direction of some bushes and undergrowth.

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Dubiously, we make our way along a matted path and find ourselves in an open space with smoke coming from a bucket of lit joss-sticks.

We finally see our target.

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She is dressed simply in tracksuit bottoms and a bright floral cotton jacket. Her youthful face looks scrubbed and when she greets us, it is with friendly politeness. A cliche immediately comes to mind: 'What is a nice girl like her doing in a place like this?' Indeed, what is a nice girl like Yeung Ching-ching doing in a business like this? Yeung is a stuntwoman, or more correctly, the stuntwoman. Nothing in the way she looks or her demeanour gives away her profession. There are no visible scars or bulging muscles.

Yet, she has the distinction of being the only stuntwoman left in the Hong Kong film business, and she is also the first - and only, of course - female martial arts director in the territory.

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