Earlier this year Mozilla hired away Li Gong, MSN's highest-ranking executive in China, to increase adoption of the Firefox browser in China, where it now has a meager 1% share.

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Add to this mix the very promising newcomer Zhang, touted as the next Gong Li.

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Cheng boasts customers such as Maggie Cheung, Michelle Yeoh, Gong Li, Anita Mui, Michelle Reis, Carina Lau and Shu Qi.

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It features a terminally ill British journalist (Jeremy Irons) who tries to save and seduce a bar girl (Gong Li).

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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon actress Zhang Ziyi ranked No. 2 in the overall list, and international film star Gong Li was No. 5.

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Still awaited is Hollywood's very own version of the Chinese actress Gong Li, now so famous in East Asia that she is endorsing products.

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After doing the film-festival rounds (Venice, Toronto, Pusan), the Gong Li-Jeremy Irons starrer Chinese Box finally made it to mainstream American movie screens last week.

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Chinese actress Gong Li was given the post earlier this month.

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The dramaturgy is crudely repetitive: as Hatsumomo, Gong Li is required to throw so many hissy fits that she seems less a geisha than a Mean Girl.

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In 1929, a country girl, Chiyo, is sold into bondage at a Kyoto training house for geishas, a house ruled by the foul-tempered Mother (Kaori Momoi) and a nasty top geisha, Hatsumomo (Gong Li) the equivalents of a wicked step-mother and stepsister.

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Also with Gong Li.

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