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Yuan Li (actress)
Yuan Li (; born 12 July 1973) is a Chinese actress and philanthropist. Yuan rose to fame for her role in the television drama ''Never Close Eyes'' (1998), for which she won the Supporting Actress at the 18th Golden Eagle Awards. She starred in the four seasons of television series '' The Eloquent Ji Xiaolan'' (2002–2008) and won the Best Supporting Actress at the 20th Hundred Flowers Awards for her performance in the film ''Pure Sentiment'' (2002). Since 2011, Yuan has shifted her focus to charitable work, including establishing the Yuan Li Foundation for pneumoconiosis patients—a sensitive topic in China due to its link to government negligence regarding workers’ rights. She converted to Christianity around 2013. Following years of increasingly outspoken views on social issues, religion, and the COVID-19 pandemic, her Weibo account was suspended in 2020, effectively blacklisting her in China. In 2021, her Twitter account was suspended after she expressed support for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuan (surname)
Yuan ( 袁, ) is a Chinese surname ranked 37th in China by population in 2019. In Standard Chinese, the surname is transliterated Yuán ( hanyu pinyin) or Yüen2" ( Wade-Giles). Other romanizations include Yeu ( Shanghainese), Ion ( Chang-Du Gan), Yuen (Cantonese), Oan (Hokkien/ Min Nan), Wang ( Teochew), Won ( Korean), and Viên ( Vietnamese). Pronunciation differs widely from region to region. According to tradition, the surname originated from a noble family of the ancient state of Chen, in what is now eastern Henan province. The written form of the character took its current standardised form around the 1st century. During the Han dynasty, it was associated with the powerful Yuan clan of Ru'nan and later during Jin and Southern dynasties, with the Yuan clan of Chen. Historically, the name has been fast growing amongst Han Chinese, and has also been taken up by various non-Chinese ethnic groups. The surname is now held by more than 6.5 million people worldwide, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ancestral Home (Chinese)
In Chinese culture, an ancestral home is the place of origin of one's extended family. It may or may not be the place where one is born. For instance, Lien Chan was born in Xi'an, but his ancestral home is Zhangzhou. Definition A subjective concept, a person's ancestral home could be the birthplace of ''any'' of their patriline ancestors. Su Shi limited it to five generations, i.e. it refers to the home of one's great-great-grandfather. Even more broadly, an ancestral home can refer to the first locality where a surname came to be established or prominent. Commonly, a person usually defines their hometown as what their father considers to be his ancestral home. In practice, most people would define their ancestral homes as the birthplace of their patriline ancestors from the early 20th century, around the time when government authorities began to collect such information from individuals. Moreover, a person's ancestral home can be defined in any level of locality, from prov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northeast Normal University
Northeast Normal University (NENU; ) is a public normal university in Changchun, Jilin, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education, and co-funded by the Ministry of Education and the Jilin Provincial People's Government. The university is part of Project 211 and the Double First-Class Construction. History Northeast Normal University (NENU) is an institution of higher learning under the direct administration of the Ministry of Education, being selected as one of the universities given priority in construction in the "211 Project". The university, in Changchun city, Jilin province, occupies an area of 1,500,000 square meters, including 800,000 square meters of the main campus and 700,000 square meters of the new campus. NENU's predecessor is Northeast University, the first comprehensive university founded by the Communist Party in northeast China in Benxi, Liaoning province, in February 1946. In 1949, the school was moved to Changchun City and renamed Northeast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blaine Grunewald
Blaine may refer to: People *Blaine (given name) * Blaine (surname) * Blaine (cartoonist), Canadian political cartoonist Places in the United States * Blaine, Georgia, an unincorporated community * Blaine, Idaho, an unincorporated community * Blaine, Illinois, an unincorporated community * Blaine, Indiana, an unincorporated community * Blaine, Kansas, an unincorporated community * Blaine, Kentucky, a city * Blaine, Maine, a town ** Blaine (CDP), Maine, a census-designated place within the town * Blaine, an unincorporated community in Grant Township, St. Clair County, Michigan * Blaine, Minnesota, a city * Blaine, Mississippi, an unincorporated community * Blaine, Missouri, an unincorporated community * Menoken, North Dakota, a census-designated place originally named Blaine * Blaine, Ohio, an unincorporated community * Blaine, Tennessee, a city * Blaine, Washington, a city ** Blaine Air Force Station, a now closed radar station * Blaine, West Virginia, an unincorporate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Cross Society Of China
The Red Cross Society of China () is the national Red Cross Society in the People's Republic of China. Origins and history before 1949 The Red Cross Society of China was founded as the Shanghai International Red Cross Committee on March 10, 1904, during the Russo-Japanese War. The founders were a group of Chinese business and political leaders, led by Shanghai tea merchant Shen Dunhe. Shen chose to use the Red Cross aegis for his group because the neutrality provided by the Red Cross symbol allowed Chinese relief teams into the Manchurian war zones to aid Chinese civilians caught in the conflict between Japan and Russia. Shen created a Red Cross organization made up of wealthy Chinese and prominent Westerners living in China. The Red Cross Society, supported by government officials, Chinese elites and Western medical workers provided aid to more than a quarter of a million people in China's northeast. After the end of the Russo-Japanese War, the Chinese Red Cross expanded exp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
What Women Want (2011 Film)
''What Women Want'' is a 2011 romance film, romantic comedy film remake of the 2000 What Women Want, American film of the same name. A Chinese-Hong Kong co-production, the film stars Andy Lau and Gong Li. ''What Women Want'' was released in China on 3 February 2011, the first day of Chinese New Year. The plot is a very close remake of the American version with some minor changes. The plot takes place mostly in an advertising company in Beijing, in which Lau plays a slick ad agency creative director who gets acquainted with his new talented competition, played by Gong. He is helped when he gets the ability to hear women's thoughts due to a freak accident. Cast * Andy Lau as Sun Zigang * Gong Li as Li Yilong * Yuan Li as Yanni * Banny Chen as Xiao Fei * Hu Jing as Zhao Hung * Zhu Zhu as Xiao Wu * Li Chengru as CEO Dong * Anya Wu as Dong's wife * Osric Chau as Chen Erdong * Wang Deshun as Sun Meisheng * Chen Daming as Young Sun Meisheng * Mavis Pan as Pan's secretary * Russell Won ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gong Li
Gong Li ( zh, s=巩俐, t=鞏俐; born 31 December 1965) is a Chinese-born Singaporean actress. She is regarded as one of the best actresses in China today, known for her versatility and naturalistic performances. She starred in three of the four Chinese-language films that have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. Gong was born in Shenyang, Liaoning, and grew up in Jinan, Shandong. She enrolled at the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing, from where she graduated in 1989. While a student at the Academy, she was spotted by director Zhang Yimou and debuted in Zhang's '' Red Sorghum'' in 1987. Gong and Zhang's professional and personal relationship received much coverage in the Chinese-speaking world, as they continued to collaborate on a string of critically-acclaimed movies, including the Oscar-nominated features '' Ju Dou'' (1990) and '' Raise the Red Lantern'' (1991). For her role in the Zhang-directed '' The Story of Qiu Ju'' (1992), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Lau
Andy Lau Tak-wah ( zh, order=t,j, t=劉德華, j=Lau4 Dak1 Waa4; born Lau Fook-wing; 27 September 1961), is a Hong Kong actor, singer-songwriter and film producer. He was named the "Fourth Tiger" among the Five Tiger Generals of TVB in the 1980s as well as one of the Four Heavenly Kings (Hong Kong), Four Heavenly Kings in the 1990s. Lau won the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actor three times, the Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actor twice, and was entered into the Guinness World Records for the "Most Awards Won by a Cantopop Male Artist" in 2000, with a total of 444 music awards by 2006. In 2018, Lau became a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In 2024, Lau was elected vice chairman of China Film Association, the 11th China Film Association. Over a career of four decades, Lau has been one of the most commercially and critically successful artists in the Chinese world. Early life Lau was born Lau Fook-wing in Tai Po, British Hong Kong to fireman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hundred Flowers Award For Best Supporting Actress
The Hundred Flowers Awards, Hundred Flowers Award for Best Supporting Actress was first awarded by the China Film Association in 1962. 1980–2004 Since 2006 Records References {{DEFAULTSORT:Hundred Flowers Award For Best Supporting Actress Hundred Flowers Awards, Supporting Actress Film awards for supporting actress ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wang Gang (actor)
Wang Gang (born December 22, 1948) is a Chinese actor and host. He is best known for his role as Heshen, a corrupt Qing dynasty official favoured by the Qianlong Emperor, in many television series. He first came to prominence in 1986 for hosting the China Central Television, CCTV CCTV New Year's Gala, New Year's Gala. Wang has also hosted the CCTV programme ''Friends'' since 2000. He won a Golden Eagle Award (China) for Best Supporting Actor, Golden Eagle Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1997 for his performance in ''Liu the Hunchback Chancellor'' (宰相刘罗锅). He also hosts Liaoning TV's talk show ''Wang Gang Telling Stories'' (). Personal life Wang has married three times. He married his first wife announcer Xiao Du () in 1978, with whom he had a daughter, Wang Tingting (). The couple divorced in 1979. Wang married for the second time in October 1996, to singer Cheng Fangyuan (), they divorced in 2001. On 8 November 2006, Wang married a woman named Zheng Yandong () he m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhang Guoli
Zhang Guoli (born 17 January 1955) is a Chinese actor and film director who was a ''xiangsheng'' actor before he started working on films and television series. He is mostly known for his roles playing the Emperor in various dramas involving Qing Dynasty imperial China. He has also hosted the CCTV New Year's Gala in 2014. In 2009, he became the second Chinese actor to win the "Grand Slam", after winning "Best Actor" at the three biggest Chinese-language television awards including the Feitian Award, the Golden Eagle Award and the Magnolia Award. He is married to actress Deng Jie and he has a son named Zhang Mo from a previous marriage, who is also an actor. Zhang is a practising Buddhist and a member of the Taiwanese Buddhist organisation Dharma Drum Mountain. He has a dharma name A Dharma name is a new name acquired during both lay and monastic Buddhist initiation rituals in Mahayana Buddhism and Pabbajjā, monastic ordination in Theravada Buddhism (where it is more ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lu Yi (actor)
Lu Yi ( zh, s=陆毅, born 6 January 1976) is a Chinese actor and pop singer. Lu ranked 38th on ''Forbes'' China Celebrity 100 list in 2015, and 47th in 2017. Early life Lu Yi was born in Shanghai, China. He made his debut in the film "Spring Ding-dong" when he was five years old. Since then, Lu has acted in many films and television series. In Grade 8, Lu began to learn Peking Opera and Chinese Kung Fu. At the age of 14, Lu was admitted to the Shanghai Children Art Theatre, and has appeared in more than 70 stage plays. Career Lu made his debut in the television series, ''Never Close the Eye''. Then still a student at Shanghai Theatre Academy, Lu was launched to national stardom. He won the Best Actor and Most Popular Actor awards in the Golden Eagle Awards. His following works established his position in the industry. In 2001, he starred in the popular period piece '' Love Story in Shanghai'' and played Bao Jingtian in historical drama ''Young Justice Bao II''. The subsequ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
