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    Tuned Into the Times

    Jul 07, 2022 4 minutes
    By Li Qing
    Copyedited by Elsbeth van Paridon

    Long stands the 10,000-
    li (5,000-km) Great Wall.
    The Yellow River flows constantly…

    When this song, The Great Wall Will Never Fall, comes on, the clock automatically turns back to 1983.

    That year, a 1981 TV series called The Legendary Fok, produced by Hong Kong-based Asia Television Ltd., made its way onto TV screens courtesy of Guangdong TV in 1983. The first-ever Hong Kong show to enter many a mainland living room, its theme song alone would rally together entire families in front of a television set.

    The series was based on the life of martial artist

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