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Wanna Be Like Li...
...Li Ning Sports Goods, China's largest athletic-shoe and apparel company, built brand awareness the same way Nike did--by getting a revered athlete to hawk its products. But while Nike had to hand over millions in endorsement fees to basketball superstar Michael Jordan, Li Ning Sports Goods just put its eponymous chief executive in front of the cameras. Li Ning, a former gymnast, won the hearts of millions of Chinese when he took six medals--three of them gold--at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. Since he founded his company in 1988, Li, 39, has doubled...
...fresh-off-the-boat newlywed in the 1993 TV series A Beijing Man in New York, Jiang played an out-of-work cellist who battles bitchy bosses, sticky-fingered factory managers and an immigrant's ennui. In Zhang Yimou's Red Sorghum, he makes passionate love to Gong Li in a breezy patch of matted sorghum stalks, then gets drunk and boisterously brags about it. When Gong Li slams a door on him, Jiang's face transforms from posturing conquistador to ashamed fool. "He looks tough outside," says Zhao, "but inside, there is something softer, something more like a woman...
...like him because he always questioned them," recalls retired dean of dramatic arts Zhang Renli, who taught Jiang after the school reopened following the Cultural Revolution. "Jiang would always ask, 'Why? Tell me why?'" says the 69-year-old, who has coached four generations of actors, including Gong Li and Zhang Ziyi. "I've never since had a student like Jiang Wen." Jiang's stubbornness can make him a chore to work with. Especially now that he's not directing but acting in other people's films. "As an actor Jiang Wen is dangerous," says award-winning author Wang...
...distribution business Li & Fung, based in Hong Kong, has applied self-organizing models from the natural world to stitch together a network of thousands of microsuppliers to keep its complicated--and generally low-margin--business running at a 30% profit margin...