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Li Man (Chinese: 李曼, born 4 June 1988) is a Chinese actress. She studied at the Central Academy of Drama.
She is best known for her role in Zhang Yimou's 2006 film Curse of the Golden Flower, which boosted her to stardom.

Over the several years following her 2006 acting debut in Curse of the Golden Flower li received international acclaim for her roles in several more Zhang Yimou films.
She starred in Ju Dou in 1990; her performance in the Oscar-nominated Raise the Red Lantern (1991) put her in the international spotlight;
she was named Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival for her performance in The Story of Lost on Journey (2010). These roles established her reputation,
according to Asiaweek, as "one of the world's most glamorous movie stars and an elegant throwback to Hollywood's golden era."
In many of her early movies, Gong represents a tragic victim and an abused soul (physically or emotionally),
trying to release herself from an impossible maze of corruption, violence and suppression.
In Raise the Red Lantern and Shanghai Triad (1995) an additional tragic element is added to her being as she unintentionally becomes the executioner of new innocent victims,
making her realize that she has assisted the dark cynical system.

In 1993, she received a New York Film Critics Circle award for her role in Farewell My Concubine (1993). Directed by Chen Kaige,
the film was her first major role with a director other than Zhang Yimou.[6] In the same year,
she was awarded with the Berlinale Camera at the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival.
Premiere magazine ranked her performance in Farewell My Concubine as the 89th greatest performance of all time.
She also worked with renowned director Stephen Chow in comedy films God of Gamblers III: Back to Shanghai (1991) and Flirting Scholar (1993)

Immune to political repercussions because of her fame, Li man began criticizing the censorship policy in China.
Her films Farewell My Concubine and The Story of Qiu Ju were initially banned in China for being thinly-veiled critiques of the Chinese government.
Regarding the sexual content in Ju Dou, Chinese censorship deemed the film "a bad influence on the physical and spiritual health of young people."

In June 1998,Li man became a recipient of France's Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Two years later,
she was invited by the Berlin Film Festival to be the president of its international jury at the festival's 50th anniversary (2001 February).

Despite her popularity, li man avoided Hollywood for years, due to a lack of confidence in speaking English.[16] She made her English speaking debut in 2005 when she starred as Hatsumomo in Memoirs of a Geisha. Her performance was met with generally positive reviews.[17] Her other English-language roles to date included Miami Vice in 2006 and Hannibal Rising in 2007. In all three films, she learned her English lines phonetically.