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Long the muse of leading Chinese %22Fifth Generation%22 filmmaker Zhang Yimou, Gong Li began her film career when she met the director while in drama school. She and Zhang received considerable international acclaim with their debut, %22Red Sorghum%22 (1987), in which Gong played a meek bride who becomes a powerful woman when she takes over her husband's winery after his death. One of China's leading young stars of the 1980s and 90s, Gong has appeared in films by other directors (%22The Empress Dowager%22 1988, directed by Li Hanxiang; %22The Terra Cotta Warrior%22, in which she acted opposite Zhang) but it is in Zhang's films that she is best known internationally....
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