Former actress Brigitte Lin on the pain of Anita Mui’s death, shocking William Chang with nude Polaroids, and seeing a penniless Li Ching in her last days

• ‘Li [Ching] told me the happiest thing for her was to eat hotpot in Café De Coral at night,’ writes Lin of seeing her fellow actress fallen on hard times
• The anecdote appears in the final book in a trilogy that charts Lin’s illustrious film career and life, one that friends say qualifies her as an author at last