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...Gong Li, mainland China's first superstar actress, is a toughie. Something in her glance, her posture, her soul knows that passion is pain, to be dished out or endured. It's an iron will that directors?starting with Zhang Yimou, her mentor and onetime companion?love to see broken...
...China-doll mode of Ziyi Zhang, or of so many American actresses who want to play the eternal teen, Gong Li, 40, is Woman in all her allure, majesty and threat. There is architectural drama in the severe planes of her face, and her slimly voluptuous figure could grace the prow of a China Sea clipper. "We joked that if we just had a dollar for every time somebody said she was beautiful when they walked past her," says Geisha producer Lucy Fisher, "we could've financed the whole movie. She's magnificent in every...
Magnificent and scary. Early in Geisha, when Hatsumomo discovers the young heroine in her room, Gong Li's glare was so intense that the child extra in the scene started sobbing and had to be replaced. "No one was touching her," says Fisher. "It was just the power of Gong Li's look...
...tennis came in 2004 when a hitherto unknown Chinese duo struck doubles gold at the Athens Olympics. Even the tennis cognoscenti, who easily negotiated the tongue-twister names of the blond, leggy Russians who have come to dominate the tour in recent years, knew little about Sun Tiantian and Li Ting. Today, they have been joined by another pair, Zheng and her fellow Sichuan native Yan Zi, who captured three doubles titles last season. In singles competition, a baby-faced 20-year-old named Peng Shuai last year reached China's highest-ever world ranking, 31, by trouncing...
...women in shape. Roommates are assigned and mealtimes set. Letting loose at a nightclub, as Anna Kournikova or Jennifer Capriati might, is forbidden. "Foreign coaches just teach you on the court," says Zheng. "Our Chinese coaches are involved in all aspects of our life." Indeed, 23-year-old Li Na, who was ranked 33 in the world last year, quit Chinese tennis in late 2002 for about a year partly because she felt the training was too regimented and outdated...