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Li Na is one of China’s most recognizable faces. She is a retired Chinese tennis player who has won nine WTA Tour singles titles including two Grand Slam singles titles at the 2011 French Open (110 million people tuned in from China to watch that final), and the 2014 Australian Open. She achieved a...
Everyone in China knows Yao Ming. Dubbed the “Moving Great Wall”, the 7-foot 6-inch (2.29-meter) Chinese basketball legend played for the Houston Rockets of the NBA from 2002 to 2011. With his soft shooting touch and deft passing skill, he earned all-star honors in eight of the nine seasons repres...
With more than 30 Best Actress awards to her name, Gong Li is regarded by many as the best and most influential actress in China. She starred in three of the four Chinese-language films that were nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, and was chosen as head of the jury...
Guan Moye (管谟业), better known by the pen name Mo Yan (莫言), is a Chinese novelist and short-story writer famous for his imaginative and humanistic fiction, which were widely popular in the 1980s. In 2012, Mo Yan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, bringing him a second round of fame.To We...
Jackie Chan is undoubtedly the most renowned Chinese actor in the world. After first establishing his martial arts prowess in his native Hong Kong and then Southeast Asia, he took his massive success in Hollywood.Jackie Chen is famed for bringing humor to kung fu movies and, over the course of appea...
Bruce Leewas a Hong Kong-American martial artist and actor whose career spanned Hong Kong and the United States. He was the founder of Jeet Kune Do, a hybrid martial arts philosophy drawing from different combat disciplines that is often credited with paving the way for modern mixed martial arts (MM...