Mo Tse

Mo Tse, the English-language credit used by Chinese actor and martial artist Xie Miao, is a Beijing-born performer who has worked in front of cameras since he was a child and remains active in 2026. He is best known internationally for playing the on-screen son of Jet Li in two mid-1990s films, a pairing that made him a familiar face to martial-arts cinema audiences well before he reached adulthood.

Now 42, Tse has built a second career as an adult lead in Chinese streaming action, most visibly headlining Ip Man: The Awakening in 2021. In 2026 he was reported to be starring in an English-language martial-arts crime thriller set in the United States, his most direct move toward international productions to date. He does not maintain a large English-language public profile, and details of his private life remain largely undisclosed. [edit]

Xie Miao was born in Beijing on May 2, 1984, and came to acting through competition rather than drama school. He trained as a wushu athlete and won championship titles at several tournaments across China, a record that brought him to the attention of filmmakers looking for children who could actually perform martial arts on camera.

He was about ten years old when he appeared in God of Gamblers Returns (1994), sharing the screen with Chow Yun Fat and Tony Leung Ka Fai. The same year brought his breakout: The New Legend of Shaolin, in which he played the son of Jet Li's character. The chemistry between the two was strong enough that they were paired again in 1995 for My Father Is a Hero.

Then he stopped. Rather than continue working through his teens, Xie enrolled at the Capital University of Physical Education and Sports in Beijing and completed his degree. He did not return to screens until 2006, when he took a role in the television series Legend of Shaolin Temple. The gap of roughly a decade is unusual for a child star and shaped everything that followed. [edit]

The adult phase of Xie Miao's career began with Legend of Shaolin Temple in 2006 and gathered momentum over the following decade. He appeared in The Champions, which opened the 2008 Chinese American Film Festival, and took a role in The Kung Fu Master in 2010. A larger part came in 2017 with Yuen Woo Ping's wuxia fantasy The Thousand Faces of Dunjia.

His most prominent lead arrived in 2021 with Ip Man: The Awakening, a prequel in the franchise associated with Donnie Yen. Carrying a known title on his own was a step up in profile. Chinese pop-culture coverage now describes him as a leading figure in modern Chinese streaming action, and his fight work has been compiled in fan reels covering 1994 through 2021, including titles such as Empire of Assassins and Fighting for the Motherland.

In 2026, Variety reported that he would headline an English-language martial-arts crime thriller set in the U.S., a production that represents his first sustained push into international English-language film. [edit]

Mo Tse's public image rests on physical authenticity. He came to film as a wushu champion rather than a trained actor, and coverage of his work tends to emphasize fight choreography and stunt ability over dramatic range. In Chinese-language media he is discussed as a streaming-action lead, a working actor who has stayed in the martial-arts lane for three decades.

His English-language footprint is modest. He does not run a prominent Western social media presence, gives few interviews to overseas outlets, and is known mainly to martial-arts cinema enthusiasts who recognize him from the Jet Li films. The 2026 reunion photographs with Li and with Chow Yun Fat circulated widely because they offered a rare personal glimpse of an otherwise low-key figure. [edit]

iFANN has not yet collected fame data for Mo Tse, so no ranking placement is available for him as of the October 2026 data month. He is also not on the September 2026 iFAMOUS Rankings flagship list.

His fanbase has no formal name and no documented organizational structure. It is best understood as the overlapping audience for Hong Kong and mainland martial-arts cinema: viewers who encountered him as a child in the Jet Li films and followed him into the streaming-era action titles. Discussion concentrates in enthusiast communities such as the r/kungfucinema subreddit, where fans compile fight reels spanning 1994 to 2021 and compare his choreography across eras. There is no evidence of coordinated streaming campaigns, birthday projects, or charity drives organized in his name. Engagement with him tends to be retrospective and curiosity-driven, focused on the child-star-to-adult-lead transition rather than on a structured fandom identity. [edit]

Xie Miao is not related to Jet Li. The two played father and son on screen in The New Legend of Shaolin (1994) and My Father Is a Hero (1995), and the resemblance in those roles has led to the assumption ever since.

He was roughly ten years old when he filmed God of Gamblers Returns, working alongside Chow Yun Fat and Tony Leung Ka Fai. In June 2026, ahead of Father's Day, he and Jet Li recreated their famous father-son photograph from 33 years earlier, an occasion covered by The Straits Times and the New Straits Times. Days earlier, Chow Yun Fat had reunited with him after 32 years.

His decision to leave acting for university is a story fans still retell: rather than ride the momentum of two hit films, he finished a degree at the Capital University of Physical Education and Sports in Beijing before returning in 2006. [edit]

Xie Miao was born and raised in Beijing. Public sources do not identify his parents or any siblings, and he has not discussed his family in the interviews retrieved for this profile. He has not publicly confirmed a spouse, partner, or children, and no credible report documents a marriage or family of his own. He keeps that side of his life out of the press, and the available record should be treated as incomplete rather than as evidence that he has no family. [edit]

Xie Miao's career is closely tied to Jet Li, with whom he played father and son in two 1990s films and reunited publicly in 2026. He has also worked alongside Chow Yun Fat and Tony Leung Ka Fai in God of Gamblers Returns, and later with director Yuen Woo Ping on The Thousand Faces of Dunjia. [edit]

No public relationship history for Xie Miao is documented in the credible sources reviewed. There are no confirmed marriages, engagements, or long-term partnerships reported in the English- or Chinese-language material available, and he has not discussed his personal life in interviews. As of 2026 his status is best described as private and undisclosed rather than single, since the absence of reporting is not evidence of any particular situation. [edit]

No reliable public estimate of Xie Miao's net worth exists. Financial and celebrity-wealth outlets have not published a figure for him, and the sources reviewed for this profile contain no credible dollar amount. The iFANN Editorial Team does not issue an estimate where the underlying record is this thin, so the field is left blank rather than filled with a guess.

What can be said is that his income has historically come from acting work in Chinese film and television, with the 2021 lead in Ip Man: The Awakening and the reported 2026 English-language thriller representing his highest-profile paid roles. He is not known to have endorsement deals, business ventures, or real estate holdings reported in the press. Any figure circulating online should be treated as unsourced. [edit]