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...as London and Paris, anti-Western diatribes filled internet forums. Gong Li married in 1996 and has long lived mostly outside China, working more recently in Hollywood. She is far from the first star to give up Chinese nationality. Hong...

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...after the government response to the Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989. The film is set in 1920s China during the warlord era, years before the Chinese Civil War. Nineteen-year-old Songlian (頌蓮, played by Gong Li), whose father has...

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...and resubmit their application. The Japanese invasion of China during World War II remains a sensitive topic, and other filmmakers have had difficulty winning approval from China for projects set in the same era. Variety has reported that the...

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...businessman Ooi Hoe Soeng in 1996, and became a Singaporean citizen in 2008. Gong Li was born in Shenyang, Liaoning, China, the fifth child in her family. Her father was a professor of economics and her mother, who was 40 when Gong was...

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Feng, Yin elected to NPC BEIJING � Two of China�s top helmers, Feng Xiaogang and Yin Li, have been elected as delegates to China�s annual rubber stamp parliament, the National People�s Congress (NPC). Fellow director Zhang Yimou was...

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...Law and Wong wore black sunglasses, as they climbed the red carpet. Other stars at the premiere included China's Gong Li, India's Aishwarya Rai and France's Juliette Binoche. Diane Kruger ("Troy") was the first German to open the ceremony,...

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...attend the ceremony. China does not recognize dual nationalities. Gong, who was born in China's Liaoning province, married Singapore businessman Ooi Hoe Seong in 1996. Copyright © 2008, The Hindu. Republication or redissemination of the...

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...Craig as suave British spy James Bond, will open in China on Jan. 30, Li said. China usually only imports 20 foreign films a year and censors them carefully. "Memoirs of a Geisha," which starred Chinese actresses Zhang Ziyi and Gong Li as...

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...Renounce Citizenship The career of Gong Li (Red Sorghum, Farewell My Concubine, Memoirs of a Geisha, Curse of the Golden Flower), one of China's leading actresses for more than two decades, appeared to be in jeopardy after she renounced her...

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