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Chizhou () is a prefecture-level city in Anhui province, People's Republic of China. It borders Anqing to the northwest, Tongling and Wuhu to the northeast, Xuancheng to the east, Huangshan to the southeast, and the province of Jiangxi to the southwest.

Mount Jiuhua (Jǐuhuáshān), located in Qingyang county, is one of the four sacred mountains of Chinese Buddhism.

Administration

The prefecture-level city of Chizhou administers four county-level divisions, including one district and three counties.

English Name	Chinese Name (Simplified / Traditional)	Pin yin	Post Code
Guichi District	贵池区 / 貴池區	Guìchí Qū	247100
Dongzhi County	东至县 / 東至縣	Dōngzhì Xiàn	247200
Shitai County	石台县 / 石台縣	Shítái Xiàn	236700
Qingyang County	青阳县 / 青陽縣	Qīngyáng Xiàn	242800

External links

Government website of Chizhou (in Simplified Chinese)

Category:Cities in Anhui

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The China Travel Service () is the tourism and travel agency of the government of the People's Republic of China. It was established on November 19, 1949 tasked with marketing China to the rest of the world and to promote and develop its tourism economy. It is a subordinate agency to the National Tourism Administration.

See also

Tourism in China

China Visa Service

References

http://www.chinaculture.org/gb/en_travel/2003-09/24/content_36089.htm

External links

Official website

China Travel Solution - Official English website

China Travel Service (Hong Kong) official website

Category:Tourism in China Category:Government of the People's Republic of China Category:Travel agencies

Coordinates	°′″N°′″N
name	Stephen Chow
chinesename
tradchinesename
simpchinesename
pinyinchinesename	Zhōu Xīngchí
jyutpingchinesename	zau1 sing1 ci4
ancestry	Ningbo, Zhejiang
birth date	June 22, 1962
birth place	Hong Kong
othername	(''lit.'' Grandmaster Sing)
occupation	actor, screenwriter, director, producer
yearsactive	1981 – present
parents	Lin Bo Yee ( Mother )
influences	Bruce Lee
hongkongfilmwards	Best Actor2002 ''Shaolin Soccer'' Best Director2002 ''Shaolin Soccer''
goldenbauhiniaawards	Best Actor1996 ''A Chinese Odyssey'' Best Director2002 ''Shaolin Soccer''
hkfcsawards	Best Actor1996 ''A Chinese Odyssey''
goldenhorseawards	Best Director2005 ''Kung Fu Hustle''Best Supporting Actor1988 ''Final Justice''
tvbanniversaryawards	Jade Lifetime Achievement Award1999
awards	Asia Pacific Film FestivalBest Actor1992 ''Justice, My Foot''Blue Ribbon AwardsBest Foreign Language Film2003 ''Shaolin Soccer''Amsterdam Fantastic Film FestivalSilver Scream Award2005 ''Kung Fu Hustle'' }}

Stephen Chow Sing-Chi (}}, born 22 June 1962) is a Hong Kong actor, comedian, screenwriter, film director and producer.

Professional career

Stephen Chow began as a temporary actor for TVB. He entered TVB in early 1980s, and was trained there, although he had few opportunities to appear in films. Chow graduated from TVB's acting classes in 1982. Chow began to find some success with the children programme ''430 Space Shuttle'' , which he co-hosted with Tony Leung Chiu-Wai.

In 1987, Chow entered into the movie industry through the film ''Final Justice'', which won him the Taiwan Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor.

While Chow became quite well known on TVB for his comedies (especially 1989's ''The Final Combat''), he shot to stardom in 1990's ''All for the Winner''. This film made him and his older sidekick Ng Man-Tat two of the most sought-after stars in the Hong Kong film industry. Chow would collaborate with Ng on many of his more successful comedies, including ''Shaolin Soccer''. Chow became Hong Kong's undisputed No. 1 comedian, taking over the mantle of Michael Hui. Unlike Hui, Chow's comedies are of the mo lei tau genre. With his expert comic timing and "rubber-faced mannerisms" , Chow ranked alongside Andy Lau, Chow Yun-fat and Jackie Chan as the major box office draws of the 1990s.

In 1994 Chow began directing films, starting with ''From Beijing with Love'', which he co-directed with Lee Lik-Chi. In the later half of the 1990s, mainland China began to warm to Stephen Chow movies. His film duology ''A Chinese Odyssey'' (1994) became (and remains) a cult classic in mainland China, baffling many Hong Kong observers, as the duology did only moderately well in Hong Kong. Nonetheless, on the mainland Chow rapidly became one of Hong Kong's most iconic film stars.

In 2001 his film ''Shaolin Soccer'' grossed over 60 million HK dollars. The film won Best picture, and Chow won Best Actor and Best Director at the 2002 Hong Kong Film Awards, receiving a total of seven wins from 2001–2003, including the Blue Ribbon Award for Best Foreign Language Film and the Golden Bauhinia Award for Best Picture and Best Director. It was his first international hit and established his reputation in the West. In 2004 he directed the film ''Kung Fu Hustle'' winning 18 awards including BAFTA Best Film not in the English Language, five Golden Horse Awards and six Hong Kong Film Awards.

Chow's film ''CJ7'' began filming in July 2006 in the eastern Chinese port of Ningbo. In August 2007 the film was given the title ''CJ7'' (長江七號 ''Chang Jiang qi hao''), a play on China's successful Shenzhou manned space missions—Shenzhou 5 and Shenzhou 6. This film introduced newcomer Kitty Zhang as his romantic lead. In 2011, news was released that Chow had started work on a new Chinese Odyssey project. He is to star as well as co-direct, produce and screenwrite. He is to co-direct with Derek Kwok. Other names have included for the project are Anthony Wong, Show Luo and Shu Qi The film is to be more CGI based than the original version. .

Influence

Chow often casts relatively new young actresses to play opposite him, especially as romantic leads, and many of these actresses have gone on to have successful film or music careers of their own. These actresses are collectively called the "Sing girls", and include Karen Mok, Vicki Zhao, Sharla Cheung, Athena Chu, Michelle Reis, Christy Chung, Gigi Leung, Cecilia Cheung, Huang Shengyi, and Zhang Yuqi.

Filmography

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Category:1962 births Category:Living people Category:Best Actor HKFA Category:Best Director HKFA Category:Hong Kong actors Category:Hong Kong comedians Category:Hong Kong film directors Category:Hong Kong film producers Category:Hong Kong writers

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Coordinates	°′″N°′″N
Name	Zhou Xun
Chinesename	周迅
Pinyinchinesename	Zhōu Xùn
Ancestry	Quzhou, Zhejiang
Origin	China
Birth date	October 18, 1976
Birth place	Quzhou, Zhejiang, China
Occupation	ActressSingerModel
Label	Warner
Yearsactive	1996 – present
Parents	Zhou Tianning (周天宁)Chen Yiqin (陈以琴)
Hongkongfilmwards	Best Actress2006 ''Perhaps Love''Best Supporting Actress2007 ''The Banquet''
Goldenbauhiniaawards	Best Actress2006 ''Perhaps Love''Best Supporting Actress2007 ''The Banquet''
Hkfcsawards	Best Actress2005 ''Perhaps Love''
Goldenhorseawards	Best Actress2005 ''Perhaps Love''
Goldenroosterawards	Best Actress2009 ''The Equation of Love and Death''
Awards	}}

Zhou Xun (born October 18, 1976) is a Chinese actress and singer. She is regarded as one of the "Four Young Dan actresses" in China (四小花旦) in the early 2000s, along with Zhang Ziyi, Xu Jinglei and Zhao Wei.

Biography

Early life

Zhou Xun was born to a middle-class family. Her father, Zhou Tianning (Chinese: 周天宁; pinyin: ''Zhōu Tiānníng'') was a local film projectionist and her mother, Chen Yiqin (Chinese: 陈以琴; pinyin: ''Chén Yǐqín'') was a salesperson at a department store. Zhou later enrolled at the Zhejiang Arts Institute to further her interest in dramatic arts, against the wishes of her parents, who wanted her to graduate from a university. She was handpicked for a role in the film ''Strange Tales Amongst Old and Desolate Tombs'' during her teenage years in school.

Acting career

Zhou Xun gained international recognition for her roles in Lou Ye's ''Suzhou River'' (2000) and Dai Sijie's ''Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress'' (2002), winning the Best Actress Award for the former at the 15th Paris Film Festival. In 2002, she starred as Huang Rong, reuniting her with ''Kaixin Jiuhao'' television co-star Li Yapeng, who played Guo Jing, in the 2003 TV series ''The Legend of the Condor Heroes''. The series was one of the most watched ones in mainland China in that year.

Zhou entered the Hong Kong film industry in 2005, starring in Peter Chan's musical film ''Perhaps Love''. She won the "Best Actress" award at the Hong Kong Film Awards, Hong Kong Film Critic's Society Awards, Golden Bauhinia Awards, Golden Horse Awards, Beijing Student Film Festival and Hangzhou Student Film Festival for her performance. After ''Perhaps Love,'' her next film was Feng Xiaogang's ''The Banquet'', in which she played a supporting role. Zhou's next project was Susie Au's film ''Ming Ming'' (2007), which won high praise at the 2006 Pusan International Film Festival held in South Korea. At the premiere of the film, she released her new music video, featuring the theme song of ''Ming Ming''.

In 2008, Zhou starred in Cao Baoping's romantic thriller ''The Equation of Love and Death'' as a taxicab driver on the lookout for her missing boyfriend. The movie was filmed in Yunnan province. In that year, she also played the lead role in ''Painted Skin'', a remake of a classic supernatural thriller of the same title. She has also appeared in the urban romantic comedy ''All About Women'' directed by Tsui Hark.

Singing career

Apart from her acting career, Zhou Xun has also performed for some motion picture soundtracks, such as ''Ming Ming'', ''Baobei In Love'', ''Xin Bian Guo Le Xi San Meng You Xian Jing'' and ''Perhaps Love''. She has also released two solo albums, ''Summer'' (2003) and ''Come Across'' (2005).

Filmography

''Nü'er Hong'' ''Temptress Moon'' ''My Rice Noodle Shop'' ''The Emperor and the Assassin'' ''Suzhou River (film) ''Beijing Bicycle'' ''A Pinwheel Without Wind'' ''A West Lake Moment'' ''Stolen Life'' ''The Banquet (2006 film) ''The Equation of Love and Death'' ''The Message (2009 film) ''Confucius (2010 film) ''The Founding of a Party''

+ Film
Year	! Title	! Role	! Notes
1991	''Old Grave''	Jiaona
1994	|	Hua Dao
rowspan=2	1995	|	Little dance girl
''The Pampered Wife''	Yangyang
1998	|
1999	|	Blind girl
2000	Suzhou River'' ||		Paris Film Festival for Best Actress
rowspan=2	2001	|	Qin
''Hollywood Hong Kong''	Hung Hung/Tong Tong
rowspan=3	2002	|	Zhao Ningjing	Hundred Flower Awards for Best ActressBeijing Student Film Festival for Top Ten Favorite Actress
''Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (film)	Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress''	Little seamstress
''Where Have All the Flowers Gone (film)	Where Have All the Flowers Gone''	Huanzi
rowspan=3	2004	|	Xiaoyu
''Beauty Remains''	Xiaofei
''Baobei in Love''	Baobei
rowspan=2	2005	|	Yanni
''Perhaps Love (film)	Perhaps Love''	Sun Na
rowspan=2	2006	The Banquet'' ||	Qingnü	Hong Kong Film Award for Best Supporting ActressGolden Bauhinia Awards for Best Supporting ActressNominated - Golden Horse Awards for Best Original Film Song
''Ming Ming''	Mingming / Nana
rowspan=3	2008	|	Li Mi	Asian Film Awards for Best ActressGolden Rooster Awards for Best Actress
''Painted Skin (2008 film)	Painted Skin''	Xiaowei
''All About Women''	Awkward lab researcher
2009	The Message'' ||	Gu Xiaomeng	46th Golden Horse Awards>Golden Horse Award for Best Actress
rowspan=2	2010	Confucius'' ||	Nanzi
''True Legend''	Ying
2011	|	Wang Huiwu

''Palace of Desire'' ''Lüyi Hongniang'' ''Love Story in Shanghai'' ''Ripening Orange'' ''The Legend of the Condor Heroes (2003 TV series) ''Beach''

+ Television
Year	! Title	! Role	! Notes
1997	''Hongchufang''	Shen Pei
rowspan=3	1998	|	Young Princess Taiping
''Taiping Tianguo (TV series)	Taiping Tianguo''	Shi Yiyang
''Jingtan Fengyun''	Lin Peipei
rowspan=4	1999	|	Fan Xiaoxuan
''April Rhapsody''	Lin Huiyin
''Kaixin Jiuhao''	Tan Gege
''Yuanlai Yijiaren''	Taotao
rowspan=3	2000	|	Du Xinyu
''Jinqian Bense''	Mandy
''Xin Wang''
2001	|	Xiuhe
2002	The Legend of the Condor Heroes'' ||	Huang Rong
rowspan=2	2003	|	A'Tong
''Business Family''	Su Boyuan / Xia He

References

Footnotes

Notations

Baidu Baike

External links

Huayi Brothers site Sina site

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Category:1976 births Category:Living people Category:Best Actress HKFA Category:Best Supporting Actress HKFA Category:Chinese actors Category:People from Quzhou Category:People with acquired residency of Hong Kong

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Coordinates	°′″N°′″N
name	Zhou Xuan
chinesename	周璇
pinyinchinesename	Zhōu Xuán
birth name	Su Pu (蘇璞)
origin	China
birth date	August 01, 1918
birth place	Changzhou, Jiangsu, Republic of China
death date	September 22, 1957 (aged )
death place	Shanghai, China
occupation	Singer, Actress
genre	Shidaiqu, Mandopop
instrument	Singing
yearsactive	1935-1953
awards	}}

Zhou Xuan (August 01, 1918 - September 22, 1957) was a popular Chinese singer and film actress. By the 1940s, she had become one of China's seven great singing stars. She is probably the most well-known of the seven, as she had a concurrent movie career until 1953.

Biography

Zhou was born Su Pu (蘇璞), but was separated from her natural parents at a young age and raised by adoptive parents. She spent her entire life searching for her biological parents but her parentage was never established until after her death.

According to later family research, a relative who was an opium addict took her at the age of 3 to another city and sold her to a family named Wang, who named her Wang Xiaohong. She was later adopted by a family named Zhou, changing her name to Zhou Xiaohong.

At the age of 13 she took Zhou Xuan as her stage name, 'Xuan' () meaning ''beautiful jade'' in Chinese.

Career

Zhou started acting in 1935, but she achieved stardom in 1937 in ''Street Angel'', when director Yuan Muzhi cast her as one of the leads as a singing girl.

"Golden Voice" (金嗓子) was Zhou's nickname to commend her singing talents after a singing competition in Shanghai, where she came in second. Zhou rapidly became the most famous and marketable popular singer in the gramophone era up to her death, singing many famous tunes from her own movies. Her light but eminently musical voice captured the hearts of millions of Chinese of her time.

After introducing "Shanghai Nights" (夜上海) in 1949, Zhou returned to Shanghai. She spent the next few years in and out of mental institutions owing to frequent breakdowns. Through the years, Zhou led a complicated and unhappy life marked by her failed marriages, illegitimate children, and suicide attempts.

Having made a total of 43 movies, her favourite film was always ''Street Angel''. This contained two theme songs: "Four Seasons Song" (四季歌) and "The Wandering Songstress" (天涯歌女), which enjoyed long-lasting popularity.

Death

In 1957 she died in Shanghai in a mental asylum at the age of 39 during the Anti-Rightist Movement. A possible cause of death may be encephalitis following a nervous breakdown.

Zhou Xuan was survived by 2 sons, Zhou Wen and Zhou Wei, born of different fathers. According to Zhou Wen's biography, the younger son, Zhou Wei, was the son of Tang Di (唐棣), while the father of Zhou Wen is unknown.

Zhou Wei currently lives in Toronto performing at times in the TTC subways, and participating in various musical projects, including teaching. He is known as a flautist. He has two daughters, both musicians. The elder of the two, Zhou Xiaoxuan, is a classical pianist trained at Concordia University and now living in Beijing.

Adaptations

To this day, Zhou Xuan's songs still remain a staple in many Golden Oldies collections in Mandarin popular music.

There have been 2 biographies written by Zhou Xuan's surviving family members. The book ''My Mother Zhou Xuan'' (我的媽媽周璇) was written by Zhou Wei and his wife Chang Jing (常晶); while a later book, ''Zhou Xuan Diary'' (周璇日記), was written by Zhou Wen.

Biography controversy

After Zhou Wen's biography was published, Zhou Wei accused Zhou Wen for altering Zhou Xuan's diary and copying the contents in an attempt to mislead readers into distorting the image of Zhou Xuan. The rebuttal also revealed that Zhou Wen had hated Zhou Wei since youth. Zhou Wen was sent for adoption after birth, followed by alleged dark influences. Zhou Wei then legally inherited Zhou Xuan's wealth over Zhou Wen.

Television

An adaptation of the life of Zhou Xuan was TVB's ''Song Bird'' in 1989, starring Nadia Chan as Zhou Xuan and Leon Lai as her lover. In this series, Xuan's songs were re-written in Cantonese and sung by Chan. She sang the duets with Lai in the program while under the limits of Crown Records (娛樂唱片). Deric Wan replaced Lai's vocals on the soundtrack album.

Another adaptation, based on Zhou Wei's biography, is the Chinese serial titled ''Zhou Xuan'' (周璇), starring Cecilia Cheung. This version of the story was accused by Zhou Wei as a false representation of Zhou Xuan and damaging to the reputation of the Zhou family.

Filmography

狂歡之夜 (1935)

Street Angel (馬路天使, 1937)

西廂記 (1940)

孟麗君 (1940)

Dream of the Red Chamber 红楼梦 (1944)

Night Inn 夜店 (1947)

長相思 (1947)

清宮秘史 (1948)

花外流鶯 (1948)

歌女之歌 (1948)

莫負青春 (1949)

花街 (1950)

References

External links

Zhou Xuan at China's Movie Database

Zhou Xuan at the Chinese Movie Database

Zhou Xuan's recordings

Category:1918 births Category:1957 deaths Category:Chinese actors Category:Chinese female singers Category:People from Changzhou Category:People's Republic of China singers Category:Republic of China singers

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