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I read a very criticising article on the plane. It’s the airline magazine published by China Southern Airline. It’s a four A3 pages long article. It’s about comparison of Zhang Zjiyi and Gong Li as well as all the Chinese actresses who ever taken movies in Hollywood. It wasn’t a good article about Zhang Zhiyi. It’s quite mean to her actually I am very surprise to read that. She is very famous in international movies, but not gaining popularity of market in China. Her acting has been criticised not having much improvement compared with Gong Li while they were both in Memoirs of Geisha. Although Gong Li is older than her, and only taking Hollywood movies in recent years, her acting is whatsoever much better than Zhang Zhiyi. It said the Hollywood movies Gong Li ever acted which were much better standard than those Zhang Zhiyi was doing. Well, personally, I am not sure about it as it seems those Hollywood movies Gong Li ever acted, which are not stories able to express her real acting. They are just movies directed by the famous western directors. I guess this article is more or less related to the bad attitude of Zhang towards public media of Greater China area. She always refuses interviews with local media but accepts the interviews from western medias, so it’s inevitably of her being written in this way in her home country.

It seems that the whole article is not very pleased with those Chinese actresses who want to get famous in Hollywood. It mentioned those who can get famous in the west by acting, who are only Gong Li, Zhang Zhiyi and Maggie Cheung. The rest who can get their names appeared in Hollywood those must be willing to take off their clothes on the big screens, those who don’t mind acting low class characters, maybe those who can do fighting movies or those who are pretty but can’t act. It also mentioned western movies could have extra benefit in international market if they have famous Chinese actresses playing in the movies that related to the popularity of Chinese heat. It seems that Chinese media is very much prefer their own actresses going home to do more acting rather than in the west.