One of the most vivid memories of my childhood was going to the Adams Theater in Newark, New
Jersey to see Enter the Dragon for the first time. It was just a short while ago when the
sudden death of Bruce Lee shook the world. It felt as if time stood still. We came to
celebrate, to witness and to morn.

There’s a term which seems to mainly be brought up in pro football but can apply to any sport
or competitive venture. It applies to a player who possesses immense talent but has only
performed on an equal level with his teammates – then suddenly they do something great. ‘He
flashed,’ the stunned onlookers say, after witnessing a glimmer of the potential greatness to
come. That’s the way I felt when I witnessed Angela Mao Ying catch one of O’Hara’s attackers
that were chasing her, with one of the greatest spinning hook kicks you will ever see. My
interest was instantly peaked. Who is this amazing, petite, attractive young woman kickin these
assailants butts all over the screen?

That single, fluid, bad intending move inspired me to see more of what Angela Mao Ying has to
offer. If this is the effect she had on me, I can only imagine what it must’ve meant to young
girls and women. It must’ve been somewhat empowering for females who were led to believe they
can’t compete with bigger and stronger men. The martial arts have always set out to prove that
superior technique will overcome superior strength. Angela Mao and other women in the martial
arts have proven this to be so. Angela’s traditional name is Mao Fu Ying, she was born
September 20th, 1950 in Taiwan. Her father Mao Yung Kang, was a Peking Opera star. Angela
attended ballet classes before joining The Fu Shing Peking Opera in 1958 where one of her
classmates was James Tien.

James would later star in the The Chinese Connection, Fist Of Fury and was to originally co
star in The Game of Death with Bruce Lee. He appeared in many more films, even sharing the
screen with Angela in ‘Thunderbolt’. She was discovered by Huang Feng who also discovered Sammo
Hung and Carter Wong. The success she would have in a string of films that were popular in the
east, won her the opportunity to play the role of Bruce Lee's sister in "Enter The Dragon".
Although the role was small and she didn’t appear on the screen for that long, I guess the
effect she had on me wasn’t alone. When she FLASHED on the screen a lot of interest was
generated in her earlier work, which inspired the eastern film companies to release her prior
films to the west. She retired from the industry in 1982 to devote herself to family.


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