Kong Duen-Yee known then as Mui Yee, was a Chinese movie star in Hong Kong

Hong Kong

Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...

. In her several films she depicted a wealthy wife scorned and other romantic characters. Her film career ran throughout the 1950s, at a time when mainstream cinema in Hong Kong was just beginning to challenge the conservative Asian culture

Asian culture

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. Soon after Yee was diagnosed with tongue cancer

Cancer

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 in 1960, she retired and decided to become a preacher as which she acted for about seven years. Yee died in 1966 due to complications of her cancer.

Conversion to Become a Christian Sect Leader

In 1963, facing certain death, Kong Duen-Yee turned from a worldly lifestyle to religion and reacted to the Pentecostal revival which had reached Asia

Asia

Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...

 to start a Christian sect she called the New Testament Church (NTC). She appointed herself a prophetess and an Apostle to continue the work of the book of Acts

Acts of the Apostles

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 in the Bible. In addition to teaching "speaking in tongues" as a means of salvation, she began promulgating what she called "The Blood, Water and Holy Spirit", of which she claimed God had inspired her from her Bible readings of 1 John 5:6-8, but is actually a teaching that many Christians have always held dear: that Jesus shed His blood for the remission of sins, began His ministry when He was baptized, and ended His ministry when He sent down the Holy Spirit to build His church on the Day of Pentecost. (It is believed by Bible scholars that the Apostle John wrote this letter to refute some erroneous beliefs of the Gnostics that Jesus was just a man and not God-in-the-flesh.)

Kong also taught her primarily female followers (of which several were former fans) teachings that bordered on numerology

Numerology

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, including the "7.21 Inspiration" (referring to July 21), which she dubbed the "rebuilding of the New Testament Church by the Holy Spirit." Yee prophesied that her religious group would become famous and cause worldwide revival. Upon her gruesome death, she was succeeded by her daughter Ruth Chang. But soon afterwards Ruth was convinced by her husband that her mother's teachings were heretical

Heresy

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 and that the NTC sect is a cult

Cult

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. Chang then moved to Southern California and became a pastor of a Pentecostal Christian church (Assemblies of God

Assemblies of God

The Assemblies of God , officially the World Assemblies of God Fellowship, is a group of over 140 autonomous but loosely-associated national groupings of churches which together form the world's largest Pentecostal denomination...

). Elijah Hong then succeeded her.

Film career

• Reunion, The 1962
• Magic Lamp 1960
• Beauty Slain By The Sword 1959
• Road, The 1959
• Seven Swordsman Leave Tianshan 1959
• Lotus Lantern (Part 3), The 1958
• Marriage On The Rocks 1958
• Prince Of Thieves (The Sequel) 1958
• Prince's Romantic Affairs, The 1958
• Scholar Redeems His Love, A 1958
• Case Of The Blood Stain, The 1957
• Escorting Lady Jing On A 1,000 Mile Journey 1957
• Fox-Spirit's Romance, The 1957
• Her Tragic Death 1957
• Lizhi's Tale, The 1957
• Lotus Lamp, The 1957
• Pearl's Reconciliation 1957
• Story Of Liang Tianlai, The 1957
• Thunderstorm 1957
• Beauty In The Mist 1956
• Fire 1956
• King And The Beauty, The 1956
• Madam Mei 1956
• Peacock's Sad Tale, The 1956
• Precious Lotus Lamp, The 1956
• Romance At The Western Chamber 1956
• Sad Wife In A Grand House, The 1956
• Broken Spring Dreams 1955
• Devoted Lover, The 1955
• Honeymoon 1955
• Hypocritical Heart, The 1955
• Love (Part 1) 1955
• Love (Part 2) 1955
• Love Trilogy 1955
• My Wife, My Wife 1955
• Next Generation, The 1955
• Orphan's Tragedy, An 1955
• Pagoda Of Long Life, The 1955
• Hills Divide Us, The 1954
• Noble Family, The 1954
• Orchid Of The Valley 1954
• Unforgettable Song, An 1954
• Bird In The Sunset 1953
• Bright Night 1953
• Death Of A Beauty 1953
• Family 1953
• Guiding Light, The 1953
• In the Face of Demolition 1953
• Things Of The Past 1953
• Couple In Love, A 1952
• Kowloon City Fire 1950
• Laughter And Tears 1950
• Laughter And Tears 1950
• Dead End Case 1949
• Love And Hate On The Sea 1949
• Love In The Schoolyard 1941
• Beautiful Puppet,The 1938
• Sentimental Woman, The 1937
• War And Survival 1937

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