This is the 67th instalment in a biweekly series profiling major Hong Kong pop culture figures of recent decades.
From growing up impoverished in a village in Huizhou, in east-central Guangdong province, to sending his son to an elite international school in Shanghai, the life of actor and singer Jordan Chan Siu-chun has been a roller coaster defined by extreme reinvention.
Today, at 58, he has crafted a new image as a stellar husband and father, living in mainland China with a wife 16 years his junior and their two sons, aged 12 and five.
