Word: jing
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...discovered the face that has now become famous Asia-wide. Manfred Wong, then a writer and producer in Hong Kong, saw Shu Qi's picture on a magazine cover in 1995 and tracked her down. He was searching for a newcomer willing to get naked for commercial director/producer Wong Jing, who was preparing to make Sex and Zen II, a Category III, or adults only, movie. Shu Qi had already done nude photographic books. She was being fleeced rather than managed by two Taiwan agents: for every $100 she was making, she says, they took $45. It wasn't hard...
...scene she makes lesbian-then-macho love (with a strap-on appendage) to heroine Loletta Lee, a 29-year-old actress who had sexed her way through much of the same fare. She was instantly noticed: half demonic, half nymph-gazing-through-the-eyes-of-the-worldly-whore. Wong Jing, at that time Hong Kong's most successful filmmaker, proclaimed that Shu Qi would one day be famous...
...Staff writer Jing Lin can be reached at lin4@fas.harvard.edu...
...With nearly all Chinese dissidents in jail or cowed into silence, their activism has passed to their families. In Beijing, Liu Jing and Zhang Hong, the sister and wife of jailed dissidents, issued a separate letter to the i.o.c. on Feb 15. The two had met in August 1999 through their lawyer. Both were enraged by the treatment meted out to their loved ones. Zhang, a retired shop clerk, saw her husband Jiang Qisheng jailed for four years when he urged Beijing residents to light candles in their windows to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre. Liu says...
...humans will not change our ways in order to protect the environment. We don't change airline regulations until planes crash; we don't recall tires until people have died; and until the warming starts to affect us, we will still turn our back on environmental problems. JUSTIN KAR-JING LI Ottawa...