Mainland Chinese stars who made it big in Hong Kong: from action film icons Jet Li and Donnie Yen to Cantopop royals Leon Lai and Faye Wong | South China Morning Post

Over the last few decades, Hong Kong's entertainment industry has produced many icons who will go down in history . TVB's golden age in the 1980s propelled a generation of now timeless actors and singers to fame. Then there's the Hong Kong film industry, the world's third-largest film exporter for decades behind India and the US, rightfully recognised as the "Hollywood of the East" . Finally, many Hong Kong singers helped popularise Canto-pop across Asia and became some of the region's most widely celebrated stars in the process . Inside Hong Kong diva Rosamund Kwan's splendid life What may be…