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Gong Li

Actor

Born: 31 December 1965

Birthplace: Shenyang, China

Best known as: Leading lady of Chinese movies

Gong Li -- also credited as Li Gong -- was still in acting school when she got the lead role in the 1988 film Red Sorghum. She was an international hit and starred in many Chinese films throughout the 1990s, including The Story of Qiu Ju (1992) and Farewell My Concubine (1993). She made several films with director Yimou Zhang, with whom she had a personal relationship until 1995. She has also appeared in Memoirs of a Geisha (2005, starring Michelle Yeoh) and Miami Vice (2006, with Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx).

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Inside Java(TM) 2 Platform Security: Architecture, API Design, and Implementation (2nd Edition) (Java Series) by Li Gong, Gary Ellison and Mary Dageforde
Chinese Opera by Jessica Tan Gudnason, Gong Li, Jessica Tan Gud…
Programming Open Service Gateways with Java Embedded Server(TM) Technology (Java Series) by Kirk Chen and Li Gong
Re-examining the Cold War: U.S.-China Diplomacy, 1954-1973 (Harvard East Asian Monographs) (Robert Accinelli, Rosemary Foot, Steven M. Golds…
The Allure of Falun Gong: Li Hongzhi and China's Most Dangerous Chi Gong Sect by Paul Dong and Thomas Raffill

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