Xu Jing Lei - Dream Turn Into Reality

Not the Most Popular Blogger
Sadly, my quest to become more popular than Michelle Malkin is being overshadowed by Xu Jinglei, a Chinese actress/blogger whose blog was named number 1 most visited blog in the world.
And not for all the obvious reasons...

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One of China's hottest girls, Xu Jinglei, will become the chief editor and sponsor of an e-journal.

In addition to her acting, directing, photography, and blog writing, the beauty has decided to take her blog to a new level - web magazine.

Her blog, she says, will feature her life stories, whereas the web magazine will be more comprehensive and cover other topics and voice other opinions.

The topics in her online ezine will be:

1. fashion

2. entertainment

3. culture

4. science

5. political issues

Xu Jinglei will host a section on interviews with famous people. I hope she calls me and asks me for an interview.

I wish I were more able to read Chinese... Is a half century too old to learn that language?

Performer ProfileHeight: 5 feet 7 in
Ethnicity: Asian

Awards
52nd Spanish San Sebastian Film Festival , Best Director, 2004, Letter from an Unknown Woman
4th Chinese Film Media Awards , Best New Director/Best Screenwriter/and “Most Popular Mainland Actress, 2004, My Father and I
23rd Golden Rooster Awards , Best First Directing Play, 2003, My Father and I
23rd Golden Rooster Awards , Best Supporting Actress, 2003, Far From Home
26th Hundred Flowers Award, Best Leading Actress, 2003, Spring Subway
3rd Chinese Film Media Awards , Most Popular Actress, 2003, Spring Subway

Ancient Chinese Love Toy for Two… or more

We thought is was pretty funny when we found the images of the Buddhist Dildos but this one takes the cake. I guess it is the fact that even so long ago in China’s history someone was thinking of more than just themselves and wanted to instead please 2 people at once.

Depending on whether the smaller two on the bottom are used as a stand or not, would also tell us if this was not an old orgy tool.

Well you can decide:

Historians do not know who invented the dildo but most believe that dildo’s most likely originated in Asia. Dildos have been found in China that date back as early as the New Stone Age, that’s more than 12,000 years ago and most recently a tomb was uncovered from the Han Dynasty in Xian, China that was home to a rather interesting collection of dildos.

Seven cast bronze dildo’s were discovered and evidence indicates that they were used by palace maids on sexually deprived imperial concubines or aristocratic women during the Han Dynasty. You go girls!

Also discovered in ancient China , are hand crafted dildo’s which double as works of art that are made of wood, jade, and ivory.

Life is a sleep, love is its dream; And you'll have lived if you've loved, said the French poet Alfred de Musset. Indeed, love is the motor of life, and living without love is no living at all.


But how will your love life fare in 2008? What do the stars hold in store for you during this year as far as your heart is concerned? Will your conjugal relationships be thrilling or morose? Are you going to meet your other half? What and how can you do to make a success of your love affairs?


This horoscope gives clear and precise answers to all such questions. It describes the probable evolution of your love life by periods of two weeks throughout the year according to the astral configuration of the moment. In addition, it offers you timely bits of advice.


This 2008 Love Horoscope will certainly prove to be a valuable guide which you'll find nowhere else.

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Chinese actress and director Xu Jinglei poses for photos at the celebration of the 15th issue of her e-magazine on Saturday, December 22, 2007. [Photo:thebeijingnews.com]

Chinese actress and director Xu Jinglei held a meet-and-greet with readers of her E-magazine, "Kai La," to celebrate the publication of its 15th issue on Saturday.

The Beijing News reported that the magazine, which focuses on current affairs, entertainment, literature and economics, has published 15 issues since it was launched in April 2007. Downloads of the magazine have exceeded 8 million.

Xu, editor-in-chief of the magazine was pleased with the response, and expressed gratitude toward her readers at the celebration.

Chinese Name : Xu Jing Lei
Birthland : Pei King, China
Education: Beijing Film Academy '97
Occupation: Actress of Beijing Film Studio

Favorite Color : Black , White
Favorite City : Pei King , Rome
Favorite Flower : Tulip
Favorite Thing : Shoping
Favorite Sport : PingPong
Favorite Painter : Musee Gauguin , Monet
Favorite Actress : Isabelle A

Xu Jinglei Love 2008 ~!

Xu Jinglei est une star en Chine.


Son blog est connu pour sa popularité Gigantesque, qui a déjà enregistré 91 156 816 millions de pages vues de puis sa création (je me demande à combien en est ChauffeurDeBuzz ...).



Soit 844 jours d'existences et une moyenne de 108 000 pages vues par jour !!!

Le blog de Xu Jinglei a été lancé en février 2005.

Grâce à son blog, Xu Jinglei est aujourd'hui chanteuse, comédienne, réalisatrice, écrivain et productrice !

Il faut absolument visiter son blog pour y écouter la musique de fond ;)

NB : Hier j'ai une nouvelle fois battu tous mes records ... avec 73 106 pages vues, 41 010 visites et 39 756 visiteurs ... un peu la folie ... !!!

Source Xu Jinglei numéro 1 des bloggers en Chine

The multi-talented 33-year-old has now launched a handwritten Chinese computer font in conjunction with the leading high-tech organization, the China Founder Group, on Friday.

The actress and director says her father has required her to practice calligraphy since she was a child.

She spent two months handwriting more than 6,700 Chinese characters for the font, while the China Founder Group digitalized the characters and developed the software package.

People can transform ordinary computer font into Xu Jinglei's handwritten characters after they install the "Fangzheng Jinglei Simplified Chinese" program with their Windows operating system.

The package was originally available to download for 10 yuan (US$1.29) at Xu Jinglei's official website. It received hundreds of hits the first day it was launched.

Hackers stole the code shortly after the launch and the program can now be downloaded for free. Critics say this has not hurt Xu Jinglei because she helped to create the software for promotional purposes, not profit.

Tech Talk: Interview with Chinese blogger Xu Jinglei
Technology reporter Ellen Lee talks with Xu Jinglei, a popular actress, director and blogger in China. Jinglei explains why she never blogs about politics, what effect she hopes her blog has on readers, and what impact the Internet has had on Chinese culture.

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Xu Jinglei most popular blogger in world
The weblog by Chinese starlet Xu Jinglei is now the world's most popular. With more than 50 million clicks it tops the "Technorati" billboard, a leading weblog search engine.

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"I didn't expect it to be so popular. An avalanche of clicks has encouraged me to keep writing," said Xu, adding that her blog is mainly aimed at promoting her films.

Xu, an actress-turned-director, became famous overseas when she won a best director award for "Letter From An Unknown Woman" in the 2004 San Sebastian International Film Festival in Spain.

She considers blog writing to be the most convenient and economic way of publicizing her films.

While busy shooting her latest movie "Dreams May Come", which was released in China at the end of June, she put details of the filming process and her marketing plans into her blog.

She even inserted in her blog links to film clicks posted on the website of her film company.

China Mobile seized the occasion, adding a link at the top of her blog's home page to announce that the theme song of "Dreams May Come" sung by Xu herself could be downloaded for cell phone rings.

Begun last October, Xu's blog at blog.sina.com.cn/m/xujinglei only took 112 days to break domestic records with more than 10 million visits.

Since then, she has updated her blog every other day. But if she feels in a very good mood she sometimes posts two or three articles in a day.

Sensitive articles with her musings about life have made this beautiful young director even more thoughtful and talented, and drawn legions of fans.

Visitors leave thousands of messages about each of her articles, applauding her open, free writing style, commenting on films or taking advantage of her popularity to advertise their own blogs or businesses.

A survey by Baidu.com showed there were 16 million bloggers writing in Chinese last year, with a total of 36.82 million weblogs. Xu Jinglei was one of the first celebrities that the portal website Sina invited to open blogs last year.

In The Most Popular Chinese Blogger, it was noted that the celebrity blogger Xu Jinglei has gone past the 10 million visitor mark at Sina.com in just a few months' time. The following is the translation of a blog post by the blogger Massage Milk to explore the commercial implications for Xu Jinglei and other bloggers in general.

[in translation]

Someone is seeking out Xu Jinglei for the purpose of advertising on her blog.

Right now, Xu Jinglei has more than 10 million hits on her blog and is rapidly advancing towards the 20 million mark. A medium-sized website probably has only that many hits.

So, from the commercial viewpoint, Xu Jinglei's blog is totally capable of taking on advertisements. Furthermore, based upon the current circumstances, the effect will definitely be good because this will be the first time and everybody will be paying attention. The first mover will have an advantage. What will the effect of advertising on a blog, especially for a Sina.com blog and even more especially for a Sina.com celebrity blog, mean for the IT industry? Afterwards, it will be very interesting to see what chain effects will result. I very much hope that Xu Jinglei will accept this offer.

Presently, the largest problems faced by blogs are two things: one is copyright and the other is profit. How these two problems are solved will be a key issue for the future development of blogs. As of today, there is no good proposal (in the IT circle, their language is a 'model'). Since Xu Jinglei's blog has attained a stage where it can assume responsibility for its own profits and losses, it is natural that her blog should begin to carry advertisements. The significance is not about how much money Xu Jinglei can make (and she does not need this money), but whether her blog can help the IT sector figure out a new direction.

According to reports, Xu Jinglei is hesitant because it may upset some of those people who visit her blog regularly. I feel that this is not a concern, because the extremists are a minority. Only one person wrote a letter of rupture to Faye Wong, and people continue to buy the records of Faye Wong. Getting back to this, if you won't let your idol earn some money, then you are a "selfish" fan. Besides, if someone invests money for advertisements on Xu Jinglei's blog, it should be the glory of Xu Jinglei as well as her fans.

I felt that the key problem is not with the fans, but rather Sina.com. When Sina.com rounded up all the celebrities around to start blogs at Sina.com, they sweet-talked more than a hundred celebrities. If we carefully analyze these Sina.com recruiters, they basically conned and deceived people into starting blogs because they never said anything like "Let us sign a contract" or anything such. It was a friendly invitation. So some of these celebrities had signed on without even figuring out what was going on. They may not have noticed that as soon as they put up their blog posts, their contractual relationship with Sina.com had already begun.

Very few people have paid attention to the Sina.com Service Agreement. When one registers, Sina.com will remind you to read this agreement (99% of the people will not read the agreement). Basically, every website has a similar kind of agreement. When nothing is happening, this agreement is just an empty document; when things go wrong, one discovers that this is an unfair and unreasonable set of conditions. The reason why this agreement has not caused any complications is that netizens have not noticed it before or else if something happens, there is nothing that the netizens can do. Nobody worries about this agreement. This agreement is actually an "Agreement for the Internet service to evade responsibility." This is not only at Sina.com, but all the websites in the world have these kinds of agreements.

In this agreement, I read the following requirement: "For any content that the user went through Sina.com services (including but not restricted to forums, BBS, news commentary, personal space) to upload on Sina.com for the public, the user agrees that Sina.com has the worldwide permissions and rights to freely, permanently, irrevocably, non-exclusively and completely use, duplicate, edit, revise, publish, translate, create derivative products, disseminate, interpret and/or exhibit such content, in total or in part, and/or collect such content into previously known or later designed work in any form, media or technology." These celebrities have actually given the content rights to Sina.com. Although Sina.com does not have exclusive rights, they can use it at will without cost. That is to say, when Yu Qiuyu writes a serious travelogue on his Sina.com blog, it is not different from an ordinary netizen posting a simple word of approval on the Sina.com forum, because they are both free works. If Sina.com should publish a book based upon the blogs from these celebrities, the latter will have no say.

I have carefully looked over the Sina.com Service Agreement again. There is nothing inside about Sina.com users making money through the Sina.com platform and how such money is divided. In order to prevent Sina.com from revising its agreement, I have saved a copy of this agreement on my blog just in case. Perhaps one day Sina.com may add a clause such as "For any direct or indirect profits obtained through the Sina.com platform (including but restricted to forums, BBS, news commentary and personal space), Sina.com can take a fraction with the exact ratio to be determined by other agreements."

Therefore, even though the relationship between Sina.com and its celebrity bloggers seems to be just a friendly invitation, it is not contractual. In other words, nobody can bind anyone else to anything (except for any contents forbidden by the constitution, law, regulations and the Security Administrative Penalty Rules). But when a commercial appears, this balance is upset.

Hypothetically, if a business approaches Xu Jinglei with a million yuan for an advertisement, what will happen? What happens next is what interests me the most. If Xu Jinglei accepts, would Sina.com be unhappy? You are earning money on my platform and I don't get anything. No way. Sina.com may want to fight. According to the past behavior of Sina.com, if there is an advantage, they will take that advantage; if there is a big advantage, they will take that big advantage. Once they see Xu Jinglei posting advertisements, can they pretend that they did not see it? Obviously not. Yet, Sina.com does not have any compelling reason to ask for money. This is because Xu Jinglei has no obligation to earn money for Sina.com. Was there a business contract? No. So why should I split my profits with Sina.com? Sina.com might say, "I create a space in my home for you to play, but you are conducting business. No way." Rubbish, you invited people in here and it serves you right. Besides, your home does not have a sign such as "no commercial people shall enter," so why can't I run my own business? I have not even ask you for money after getting you so many customers.

Fine, let say Sina.com accepts this deal. Will more clients go to advertise with the Sina.com celebrity bloggers? If I am the boss at the 蓝天六必治 condom, I would definitely go and advertise with the Sina.com celebrity blogs because netizens use dirty words in their comments and the effect would be especially good. This way, Sina.com loses. But I believe that Sina.com would use other methods, such as fooling around with the operational procedures, to force the celebrities to hand over some of the money to Sina.com. In the beginning, Sina.com made a big show of inviting these celebrities to start blogs and they formed a gang just like the brigands at the Water Margin. But they did not imagine this would happen. Who knew that Xu Jinglei would become so hot? If those Sina.com celebrities also wrote blogs as naturally, maybe they would all break the 10 million mark.

If Sina.com insists on a share of the profit, I think that Xu Jinglei should not refuse. She would not want to work at their infantile level, and she would agree with Sina.com quickly. If this matter were leaked to the outside world, it would be a virtue for Xu Jinglei but what would it be for Sina.com?

Therefore, I can imagine that Sina.com will not support the celebrity bloggers carrying advertisements, because it is trapped. The best deal is to quickly "revise the constitution" on those articles that evade responsibility and elevate this to web 3.0. This hypocritical approach is an insult to the celebrities, and then what? The IT elite should think up some ideas for Sina.com. If Sina.com was magnanimous, it should support the celebrity bloggers running their own businesses without taking a cent. Maybe even more people will go there to start blogs, and Sina.com won't need to recruit clients. The thousands of Sina.com employees will have some spare time to correct the spelling mistakes in the articles, and that would be a contribution to the preserving the purity of the mother language.

I have not studied the profit model for blogs in detail. But it seems a natural thing for someone to want to invest in advertisements on Xu Jinglei's blog. This is a rule of the Internet, in which the people who profit are always a minority.

Actually, when Sina.com recruited these celebrities to start blogs, they have sowed the "seeds of trouble." This is contrary to the voluntary behavior of netizens, and so this made the Sina.com celebrity bloggers somewhat ridiculous. For example, if someone promotes their own recordings, books, movies on their blogs ... they promote themselves and there is nothing that Sina.com can do. Sina.com cannot stipulate what people must or must not write. The celebrity effect often have unanticipated effects, and it is interesting that someone wanted to place advertisements on Xu Jinglei's blog.

Actually, when Sina.com first recruited celebrity bloggers, it has set up the basis for its future commercial activities. This is as yet not disclosed at this point, because the Sina.com people have probably not figured out how to make a profit. But the first step was to grab the resources and then the rest becomes a lot easier. Among the celebrity bloggers that I regularly visit, I can see the creative basis for at least seven or eight books. Similarly, when the celebrities started their Sina.com blogs, some of them considered commercial promotions in the future. Even though it was an invitation from Sina.com to start a blog, the parties have different commercial goals. This is not necessarily bad, but the problem now is about how to deal with this properly so that all parties can benefit and gain.

Nobody is going to rely solely on writing blogs and carrying advertisements to earn a living, but blog ads is one form of reward for the work of the blogger. At the same time, it is a chance to popularize this approach to gauge the effect. Afterwards, this may provide the IT industry with certain experiences and lessons (at least, they could go and revise the articles that evades responsibility), and perhaps build a foundation for the next steps towards profitability. Anyway, if someone wants to advertise for a cure for mental retardation on my blog, I will fully support it.

When I take taxi rides, I usually get to listen to the book commentaries by Dan Tianfang. Before the book commentary begins, there are usually a few advertisements because Dan Tianfang has about 200 million radio listeners around the country. That is a huge market. Similarly, blogs are a huge market and it is up to you to develop it.

There is another problem about how the copyright problem of blogs should be handled. If Sina.com invited Yu Qiuyu as a columnist, it would have to pay an author's fee to him. But Sina.com invited Yu Qiuyu to be a blogger; if he writes a lot of essays, he won't get a cent. Many celebrities (especially editors, reporters and specialist scholars in the media industry) write with vision and depth, and yet they will not earn a cent for their work. Obviously, some people are doing it willingly, but how many people understand what is going on? If these celebrities gradually realize, they would lose their interest in writing blogs quickly. Sina.com may be left with the wasteland after an atomic bomb explosion.

Celebrities can obviously attract eyeballs, but celebrities can sometimes be a time bomb that will explode at some unknown moment in time.

I don't understand the business models of the IT industry, so there may be errors in what I write. Please comment and criticize.

ie hat den erfolgreichsten Blog im chinesischen Internet, aber sie ist weder Dissidentin noch Chauvinistin, noch legt sie schockierende Sex-Beichten ab. Die 1974 in Peking geborene Xu Jinglei fällt also unter keine der Kategorien, unter denen Chinas Öffentlichkeit gemeinhin westliches Interesse beanspruchen kann.

Doch seitdem die Schauspielerin und Regisseurin im Oktober letzten Jahres ihren Blog auf der Celebrity-Seite des chinesischen Internetanbieters Sina.com eröffnete, haben sich mehr als elf Millionen Besucher bei ihr angeklickt; ihre täglichen Eintragungen verzeichnen durchschnittlich tausend Kommentare. Das ist ein Rekord in China mit seinen nominell mehr als dreißig Millionen Bloggern, von denen einige Millionen auch tatsächlich aktiv sein sollen. Schon überlegen manche, wie der Erfolg kommerziell genutzt werden kann.

„Ich bin müde und habe Quatsch erzählt“

Der Grund der Attraktion ist nicht ohne weiteres klar. Gewiß spielt der Prominenz-Faktor eine Rolle. Xu Jinglei wurde durch mehrere Filme und Fernsehserien bekannt, in denen sie herzerfrischend muntere Mädchen spielte. Zuletzt führte sie bei zwei Filmen auch Regie; eine Adaption von Stefan Zweigs Novelle „Brief einer Unbekannten“ brachte ihr auf dem Filmfestival von San Sebastian den Regiepreis ein.
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Doch Xu Jinglei liefert in ihrem Blog keine spektakulären Enthüllungen aus ihrem Privatleben. Es sind nichts als alltägliche Kleinigkeiten, die sie erzählt: wie sie mit ihrer Arbeit vorangekommen ist, wie sie sich von einem Streit erholt, wie sie in allen möglichen Situationen einschlafen kann. Um dann plötzlich zu enden: „Schluß, ich bin müde und habe Quatsch erzählt. Ich halt' jetzt den Mund.“ Dazu stellt sie Fotos, die sie beim Klavierspielen, beim Essen mit Freunden oder beim Zubereiten von Teigtaschen zeigen.

Ihr Blog wird die Gesellschaft verändern

Politisch ist dieser Blog natürlich ebensowenig wie das allermeiste, was im chinesischen Internet geschrieben wird. Die Gesellschaft wird er wahrscheinlich trotzdem verändern: einfach weil er die Gewichte dessen, was öffentlich gesagt und gedacht wird, verändert. Die Resonanz, die Xu Jingleis unprätentiöse Betrachtungen in China bekommen, ist eben auch ein Votum für einen bestimmten Stil, mit dem Leben umzugehen. Ein Leser preist Xu dafür, daß sie das Medium so behandele, „daß es einen Wert hat. Du bleibst du selbst. Deine Sachen haben nicht den Ehrgeiz, von anderen Menschen gelobt zu werden. Dein Blog ist natürlich und ehrlich.“ Das liest sich wie ein Verhaltenskodex der klassischen chinesischen Ästhetik, bei der das, was sich bewahren und nicht verbrauchen will, dahinplätschern muß wie Wasser, leicht sein soll wie grüner Tee.

All das grell Beleuchtete und Akzentuierte, was in der westlichen Öffentlichkeit als Voraussetzung für Wahrnehmbarkeit gilt, wäre da schon verdächtig. Die traditionellen Kategorien scheinen unter den veränderten medialen Bedingungen neue Autorität gewonnen zu haben. Und die Kunst, einen Blog zu schreiben, erscheint wie eine Kunst des Lebens selbst.

Xu Jinglei: Chinese Beauties Actress - Xu Jing Lei

Chinese actress/director Xu Jinglei, who also writes one of the world's most popular blogs, shows up at a party to celebrate a landmark of 100 million clicks on her blog, on Wednesday, July 18, 2007. [Photo: ent.sina.com.cn]

Chinese actress and director Xu Jinglei, who also writes one of the world's most popular blogs, held a party in Beijing on Wednesday afternoon to celebrate a landmark of 100 million clicks on her blog.

The 100 millionth hit occurred in the morning of July 12, according to Sina.com, a popular Chinese website which provides blog services to many Chinese entertainers, including Xu Jinglei.

The 33-year-old blogger has invited 20 fans, selected from online submissions, to the party.

Xu Jinglei wrote her first blog entry in October 2005. Mainly writing about her daily life, the prolific blogger only took 112 days to break a domestic record with over 10 million visits.

Each entry attracts up to a thousand comments, with around 100 thousand views.

In mid-2006, her blog reported the most incoming links of any on the Internet, according to leading blog search engine, Technorati.

Following her success on the Internet, the actress has tapped into a variety of off-screen fields, including opening an online magazine, and launching a handwritten Chinese computer font.

Xu Jinglei is China's popular multi-talented artist. She is an actress, movie director, blogger, singer and recently magazine editor as well. Xu Jinglei is also popular in international blogosphere for writing the most popular blog in China.



Name: Xu Jinglei
Chinese name: 徐静蕾
Birth date: April 16th, 1974
Birthplace: Beijing
Height: 168cm
Blood type: O
Education: Beijing Film Academy (graduated 1997)
Profession: Actress, director, writer, lecturer and singer

Favorite color: Black and white
Favorite flower: Tulip
Favorite sport: Ping-pong
Favorite actress: Isabelle Adjani
Favorite actor: Mel Gibson, Kevin Costner

(Also known as Jane Xu, Jinglei Xu, Xu Jing Lei, Hsu Jinglei, Chui Jing Loi)

Related websites:
老徐 - 徐静蕾 - 新浪BLOG (Official Chinese blog)

Famous Chinese actress and filmmaker Xu Jinglei will travel to Spain with her second film A Letter from An Unknown Woman to compete for the Best New Director prize at the San Sebastian International Film Festival.

The film will be screened in mid-September during the week-long festival.

The film cost 20 million yuan, or nearly US$2.5 million to make and is also scheduled to be dubbed in Japanese, English and Spanish in August.

The touching movie is based on the same name novel by renowned Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, which tells a story of a woman who devotes her life to a secret love.

Veteran Chinese actor Jiang Wen and director Xu Jinglei play the film's leading roles.

Xu Jinglei's first film My Father and I was released last year. (Photo Source: sina.com.cn)

Actress Xu Jinglei is currently in post-production for her second film Letter from an Unknown Woman which is slated to premiere at the upcoming San Sebastian Film Festival. She took time out to discuss how movies have inspired her.



City Weekend: Can you remember the first movie you ever watched?

Xu: When I was young, our school arranged for us to watch many movies with political messages like Jiao Yu Lu and Shao Nian Fan.



City Weekend: Of your favorite movies, are there any you've watched many times?

Xu: I have watched The Godfather and Schindler's List several times, but actually there are few movies I've watched more than once.



City Weekend: Your new movie is a re-make. Did the original influence you?

Xu: The original was shot a long time ago, back in the 1940's. Actually, I don’t like the original. I made the decision to shoot the movie based on the novel that I read many years ago.



City Weekend: How has your view of this story changed since then?

Xu: When I re-discovered the story and re-read it after 10 years, I was still very much moved, but for completely different reasons. When I was young, I disliked the guy and sympathized with the woman. Now I feel pity for the guy and see the woman as in control of her destiny.



City Weekend: Has your taste in movies also changed?

Xu: Of course, some movies I couldn't stand to watch for 10 minutes I now like very much. Wong Kar-wai's film Happy Together is one example. I couldn't handle the homosexual topic before, but now I can really appreciate and enjoy the film.



City Weekend: Any plans to direct a film without acting in it?

Xu: I think I will continue to act in the films I direct for a few more years!



City Weekend: What's in store next?

Xu: I have another film in the works. The story takes place in the city. I plan to finance it myself on a very small budget. For acting, I've signed a contract with a Japanese production company to shoot a film at the beginning of next year. The script is still being written, so the shooting dates aren't fixed yet. I'm interested in many different kinds of films. Besides American films, I especially like English and French films. I just began to direct so there are many directions for me to take. After you have directed many movies, you might think what can I do next, but I'm just starting, so there are many things I want to try, musicals, war stories, you name it…

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Name: Xu Jinglei (Xu Jing Lei, Chui Jing Loi, Jinglei Xu)
Chinese name: 徐静蕾
Birth date: April 16th, 1974
Birthplace: Beijing
Height: 168cm
Blood type: O
Education: Beijing Film Academy (graduated)
Profession: Actress, director, writer, lecturer and singer

Favorite color: Black and white
Favorite flower: Tulip
Favorite sport: Ping-pong
Favorite actress: Isabelle Adjani
Favorite actor: Mel Gibson, Kevin Costner

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Xu Jinglei Biography

Xu Jinglei was raised up in a rather traditional Beijing family, she showed her artistic talent since young and at the age of 19 she was enrolled into the prestigious Beijing Film Academy.

Xu Jinglei was given chance to act in a few TV series and movies even before she graduated from academy in 1997. Xu JingLei’s acting career didn’t boomed after her graduation, but she was given some chances to star in numerous TV dramas and movies, lots of the time not the leading role.

Xu Jinglei breakthrough came in 2002 when she wrote and directed the movie “My Father and I” which won her multiple awards. Suddenly people see her not just as an actress, but a brilliant multi-talented young lady.

Xu Jinglei become a superstar since then, but instead of rushing gold in her acting career, she went back to Beijing Film Academy as a guest lecturer. JingLei directed her 2nd movie in 2004 and acted in a few movies here and there.

There’s not much female movie makers in the East, perhaps not much in Hollywood as well. The rarity of successful female directors made Xu JingLei a precious gem in the Chinese movie industry.

Xu Jinglei turned a blogger in 2005 and very soon accumulated over 10 million viewers and she is currently the top celebrity blogger in China. It’s estimated that her blog visits exceeded 50 million in mid 2006.

Xu Jinglei also started to expand her talents into singing, releasing her 1st album in late 2006.

Xu JingLei Related Websites

Official blog (Chinese)

Why I like Xu Jinglei

Simply for her talent, Xu Jinglei is one of the most talented female I’ve ever read about.

Xu Jinglei is not the typical beauty, but do have her share of attractiveness. She looks smart and full of confident, and that makes her a charming lady.

Xu Jinglei
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Xu Jinglei
徐静蕾

Born April 16 1974 (age 33)
Beijing, China
Years active 1997 - present


Xu Jinglei (Chinese: 徐静蕾; Pinyin: xú jìnglěi) or Jane Xu; born 16 April 1974 is a famous actress, singer and director in Mainland China. Born in Beijing, Xu was admitted to the Performance Institute of Beijing Film Academy in 1993. She graduated from there in 1997.

In mid 2006, her blog had the most incoming links of any on the Internet, according to Technorati.[1] Xu also starred in Leon Lai's film "heroic Duo.

Biography

Early life

Xu Jinglei was born at April 16, 1974 at the capital of China - Beijing, she had a normal childhood as many others. She said that her early life passed smoothly, but she always couldn't do the things she wanted do and she had to do what she didn't like. Her father forced her to practice the Chinese calligraphy which she hated to do when she was a little girl, but what she liked was painting, she practiced a lot of painting and went to take the exam to study in an art university. however, she didn't pass it, then she tried to applied the faculty of stage art in Central Academy of Drama and she failed again. When she left the academy, a director saw her and thought that she was a student of the faculty of acting. Then she tried to apply the faculty of acting in Beijing Film Academy and easily got proven. Thus, she began her life as an actress, but she was always shy in all her academy life. In her first movie, she was so nervous that she couldn't even speak in front of the camera, she passed a long time like that till she worked in more movies.

Career

Xu Jinglei began her career with a lot of pure characters from the year 1996, she kept her way of acting for many years, and her image in the movie fans' minds is always the cute girl next door. In 2002, she directed her first movie My Father and I and make herself an excellent new face among the directors. She kept on acting and directing, and her movie A Letter from an Unknown Woman won the Best Director of the 52th San Sebastian International Film Festival in the year 2004.

Personal life

Xu Jinglei has a really clean personal life. She has worked together with many famous actors, but there wasn't any personal scandal about her and some actors. In the recent years, she began to blog on the famous Chinese website sina.com and write a lot of small stuffs about her personal life, and she got more popular through her blog, which is actually the most popular blog in the world.[citation needed]

Filmography

As director
Dreams May Come (2006)
A Letter from an Unknown Woman (2004)
My Father and I (2003)

As actress
The Warlords (2007)
Confession of Pain (2006)
Dreams May Come (2006)
A Letter from an Unknown Woman (2004)
Last Love, First Love (2004)
Brothers (2004)
I Love You (2003)
My Father and I (2003)
Spring Subway (2002)
Dazzling (2002)
The Storm Riders (1998)
Spicy Love Soup (1997)

Awards and nominations (until 2004)
1998 Winner of the third award of "the most popular TV star to the college student"
1998 One of the top 10 beauties of《New Weekly》
1999 Winner of the 7th GOLDEN PHOENIX AWARDS
1999 Winner of《Popular TV》's "Star of the Youth"
2000 The image representative of elong-CCTV's Olympics website
2001 The honored healthy representative of Women Activities Club of China
2001 Most Popular Actress to the college students in the first TV Festival of College Students
2002 Most Popular Actress of the 9th Beijing University Students' Film Festival
2002 The image representative of the first Beijing Girl University Students Festival
2002 Most Popular Pctress of Chinese Public Media Awards
2002 Best New Artist of the 9th Chinese Film Huabiao Awards
2003 Best Actress of the 26th Popular Cinema "A Hundred Flowers Awards"
2003 Best Supporting Actress and the Best Direction Maiden Work of the 23th Chinese Film Golden Rooster Awards
2004 Best Screenwriter, Best New Director, and Most Popular Actress of China Mainland
2004 Best Director of the 52th San Sebastian International Film Festival[2]

Notes and references
^ Fickling, David, Internet killed the TV star, The Guardian NewsBlog, 15 August 2006
^ Xu Jinglei's awards. xujinglei.org.

External links
(Chinese) Xu Jinglei blog on sina.com
(English) Translation of Xu Jinglei's blog on blogspot.com
(English) Xu Jinglei profile and biography
(Chinese) a website created by Xu Jinglei's fans

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2000s
1990s
Tau ming chong (2007) .... Lian
... aka Warlords (USA: new title)
Seung sing (2006) (as Jing Lei Xu) .... Susan Chow
... aka Confession of Pain (International: English title)
... aka Forlorn City (Hong Kong: English title: literal title)
Meng xiang zhao jin xian shi (2006) .... Actress
... aka Dreams May Come (International: English title)
Yi ge mo sheng nu ren de lai xin (2004)
... aka A Letter from an Unknown Woman (International: English title)
Zui hou de ai, zui chu de ai (2004) .... Fang Min
... aka Last Love First Love (International: English title)
Xiong di (2004) .... Xue'er
... aka Brothers (International: English title)
Wo he ba ba (2003) .... Jing
... aka My Father and I (International: English title)
Shuang xiong (2003) .... Cheuk Min
... aka Heroic Duo (Hong Kong: English title)
... aka Seung hung (Hong Kong: Cantonese title)
Wo ai ni (2003)
... aka I Love You (International: English title)
Wo de mei li xiang chou (2002) .... Xue'er
... aka Far from Home (International: English title)
Kaiwang chuntian de ditie (2002) .... Xiaohui
... aka Spring Subway (International: English title) (USA)
Hua yan (2002)
... aka Dazzling (International: English title)
"Sai gei chi chin" (2000) TV series .... Yuan Siu-mui/Siu-kuk
... aka War of the Century (Hong Kong: English title: literal title)

Fung wan: Hung ba tin ha (1998) .... Phoenix Strike
... aka Feng yun (Hong Kong: Mandarin title: short title)
... aka Feng yun xiong ba tian xia (Hong Kong: Mandarin title)
... aka The Storm Riders (International: English title)
Aiqing mala tang (1997)
... aka Spicy Love Soup (International: English title)
Director:
Meng xiang zhao jin xian shi (2006)
... aka Dreams May Come (International: English title)
Yi ge mo sheng nu ren de lai xin (2004)
... aka A Letter from an Unknown Woman (International: English title)
Wo he ba ba (2003)
... aka My Father and I (International: English title)
Writer:
Yi ge mo sheng nu ren de lai xin (2004)
... aka A Letter from an Unknown Woman (International: English title)
Wo he ba ba (2003)
... aka My Father and I (International: English title)
Producer:
Yi ge mo sheng nu ren de lai xin (2004) (producer)
... aka A Letter from an Unknown Woman (International: English title)
Self:
Yi shu ren sheng (2001) (TV) .... Herself

Xu Jinglei
Xu Jinglei (Chinese: 徐静蕾; pinyin: xú jìnglěi; born April 16, 1974 in Beijing, China) is an actress and director most famous in Mainland China. Xu graduated from the Beijing Film Academy's prestigious Performance Institute in 1997.[1] Along with Zhang Ziyi, Zhou Xun, and Zhao Wei, the mainland Chinese media considers her a member of the Four Young Dan actresses (Chinese: 四小花旦).[2]

Although not well known outside of China, her domestic importance cannot be underestimated: in mid 2006, her Chinese language blog had the most incoming links of any blog in any language on the Internet, according to Technorati.[3



2003 - Best Actress (for Spring Subway) at the 26th annual Popular Cinema Hundred Flowers Film Awards[6]
2003 - Best Actress (for Far From Home and I Love You) at the 9th annual Huabiao Film Awards[7]
2003 - Best Supporting Actress (for Far From Home) and Best New Female Director (for My Father and I) at the 23rd annual Chinese Golden Rooster Awards[8]
2004 - Best New Director and Best Actress (both for My Father and I) at the 4th annual Chinese Film Media Awards[9]
2004 - Silver Shell for Best Director for A Letter from an Unknown Woman at the 52nd annual Donostia-San Sebastián International Film Festival[10]