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	Joan Chen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chen Chong first became famous in China for her performance in Little Flower (Chinese: 小花) for which she won the A-Hundred-Flower Award.
		As well as her performance in Little Flower, Chen is famous in China for her role in the film Overseas Compatriots (Chinese: 海外赤子) (1979), which depicts an overseas Chinese family that returned to China from southeast Asia out of their patriotic feelings but encountered political troubles during the Cultural Revolution.
		During her early years in California Chen attended California State University, Northridge.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joan_Chen (328 words)

	Joan Chen and Her Acting Career (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Joan Chen or Chong Chen was born in 1961 in Shanghai, China.
		Joan changed her name from Chong to Joan in honor of "Joan of Arc", who was a symbol of strength, willing to give up her life for what she believed.
		Joan began acting at the age of fourteen, without her parents' consent, for she was the daughter and granddaughter of medical doctors and they wanted her to follow in her family's footsteps.
	www.ea.pvt.k12.pa.us /htm/units/Middle/sstudies/Kamfonas (395 words)

	Salon Arts & Entertainment \| Joan Chen: Guerrilla director (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Chen and her co-writer, Geling Yan (who wrote the short story the film is based on), waited two months to have the screenplay approved.
		Chen's fascination with the figure of Xiu Xiu dates back to her and Yan's youth, during the years of the Cultural Revolution (1966-76).
		Chen escaped the fate of a sent-down girl when she was selected for film work during her first year of high school.
	www.salon.com /ent/col/srag/1999/05/27/chen (981 words)

	Joan Chen 1/14 \| Asian American Personalities \| GoldSea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Joan Chen tells about the blind date that led to marriage, the problems of playing an 80-year-old peasant..
		Ironically, at a time when Joan Chen is becoming comfortably esconced in the role of an American movie star and the wife of a successful capitalist doctor 13 years after abandoning stardom in China, she looks strikingly like the idealized young peasant woman of old communist posters, healthy and clear-skinned.
		Chen brings her visitor a glass of water and makes a largely ineffectual effort to slide a pile of art and photo books out of the way on the oval glass coffee table of her living room.
	goldsea.com /Personalities/Chenjoan/chenjoan.html (520 words)

	SPLICEDwire: Joan Chen feature (1999)
		Joan Chen doesn't look like a rebel this afternoon, what with her perfectly pressed, couture-quality, chiffon dress and the length of her flapper-style bob brushing a soft, spa-toned cheek.
		This "sent down" policy, as it was known by the population it effected (mostly educated middle class Chinese who weren't connected enough to get strings pulled for their children), saw thousands of kids leave home, many never to return again after they were stranded by this government directive which had by then outlived its usefulness.
		Chen and Yan, who became friends when Yan was writing Chen's biography, both grew up in this era and saw many friends dispatched to remote regions by this policy.
	www.splicedonline.com /features/joanchen.html (1183 words)

	Joan Chen, Guerrilla
		Chen, now 38, was born into the heart of the Cultural Revolution, and while she was never "sent down" herself, she remembers "every other child" from her Shanghai neighborhood meeting Xiu Xiu’s fate.
		It was never Chen’s plan to shoot without authorization, but months of trying to cooperate with the Chinese government left her with no other options.
		But Chen takes solace in the fact that, as her heroine finally does, she has learned to stick to her ideals regardless of cost.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/062499/ae.mov.chen.shtml (608 words)

	AskMen.com - Joan Chen pictures
		Chen was a big reason the film did so well and after its success, she was a hot commodity.
		Chen has passed the magic 4-0 and still trumps many women half her age.
		Chen gives the media something to chew on with her array of gowns and dresses, but she also proves to be comfortable in designer jeans and tight sweaters.
	www.askmen.com /women/actress_200/210b_joan_chen.html (989 words)

	Interview: Joan Chen - actress and director - Interview
		Joan Chen then built a substantial Hollywood acting career, establishing herself in the West as the opium-inhaling Empress of China in Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor (1987), a mill owner in David Lynch's offbeat TV series, Twin Peaks (1990), and a Vietnamese peasant in Oliver Stone's Heaven and Earth (1993).
		Last year, Chen directed her first feature, Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl, about the brutal send-down system of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, in which the government attempted to homogenize society by exiling educated citizens to the rural provinces to perform manual labor.
		Chen cowrote the screenplay, put together $1 million--much of it her own--and, after the script was rejected by China's film bureau in Beijing, got a cast and crew and shot the film on the run in the western provinces.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1285/is_8_30/ai_64566636 (1365 words)

	Is Joan Chen Done with Hollywood? \| Asian American Issues \| GoldSea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		More recently Chen's prospects as a Hollywood director dimmed when she was dropped from the helm of an upcoming remake of The Apartment.
		The social constraints imposed by the revolutionary heroine roles began to chafe, and as she neared the end of her teen years, Chen was desperate to escape.
		A year later Joan Chen obtained permission to leave China to study filmmaking in the U.S. Within months China's most popular actress found herself waitressing in a San Fernando Valley Chinese restaurant while attending Cal State Northridge.
	goldsea.com /Air/Issues/Chen/chen.html (1020 words)

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		Joan Chen is one of the most versatile people in Hollywood.
		Born Chong Chen in Shanghai, China, she was educated at both the Shanghai Film Academy and the State University of New York at New Paltz.
		While Joan Chen has clearly made a mark as an actress, she is perhaps best known for her role as the director of the award-winning film, Xiu-Xiu (The Sent-Down Girl).
	www.asiasource.org /arts/JoanChen.cfm (1404 words)

	Joan (Chong) Chen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Introduction for the Teacher: Joan (Chong) Chen is a well-known and admired Asian American actress who has worked hard to make a name for herself.
		Joan says she did not come to the United States to continue her acting career.
		Joan Chen had a dream or a goal of becoming an accomplished and appreciated actress.
	kancrn.kckps.k12.ks.us /read_alouds/lang/joan_chen.htm (353 words)

	Joan Chen Picture Galleries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Had a succession of small parts in movies and TV, with first break coming in 1986 when, in the true tradition of Hollywood legend, Dino DiLaurentis discovered her in the Lorimar parking lot and cast her in "Tai-pan".
		This, and her role as enigmatic mill owner Josie Packard in the cult TV series "Twin Peaks", are her best-known roles in the West.
		However, Hollywood's practice of type-casting Asians has led to a dearth of major roles for Chen since then, and in recent roles, she has often been cast as a villainess.
	www.geocities.com /joanchen2 (202 words)

	Joan Chen
		Pacific Heights: Joan Chen's life--from childhood stardom in China to her "discovery" in a Hollywood parking lot to her debut as a movie director--is better than the plot of any movie.(Features)
		Joan of Art: Once the transpacific princess of good films and bad, Joan Chen is now an award-winning auteur.(The Arts/Show Business)(Review)
		Joan Chen made film she saw in her heart.
	www.infoplease.com /ipea/A0880658.html (437 words)

	Joan Chen News
		Actor and director Joan Chen tells Filmstew.com that her on-screen career stalled after The Last Emperor because "because people don't know how to write for me, that's just the way it is." That will endear her...
		Proudly a northern Californian When Joan Chen first came to Los Angeles, she knew that starting a stateside acting career would be difficult; as an immigrant, she did not expect the range of parts afforded...
		Joan Chen, who's 44, plays the 48-year-old Ma Pang in ``Saving Face,'' which opens Friday.
	rss.topix.net /who/joan-chen (549 words)

	Joan Chen Pictures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		I don't think there is much debate on the fact that Joan Chen is one of the most beautiful women in the world.
		She was born in 1961 in the old film capital of China, Shanghai, to two doctors.
		When she was seven, the Red Guard sent her mother to live in the countryside and her father was sent to Tibet for "re-education".
	www.brns.com /pages/jchen1.html (313 words)

	Xiu Xiu - A Film by Joan Chen
		Joan Chen - Allison Liu - Cecile Shah Tsuei
		Chen was born in Shanghai, where she was selected for the Actors' Training Program of the Shanghai Film Studio in 1975.
		Directed by Joan Chen from the award-winning novella by Yan Geling, Xiu Xiu is actually two love stories: one told as the haunting remembrance of love lost, and the other
	www.ground0.com /defunct/xiu (1048 words)

	AskMen.com - Joan Chen
		Often considered the "Elizabeth Taylor of China" due to teenage success in her homeland, Chen is mainly known for two projects in America.
		The first is her memorable performance as the Empress in 1987's The Last Emperor and the second is her portrayal of Josie Packard on the twisted cult TV hit, Twin Peaks.
		Born in Shanghai, China on April 26th, 1961, Chong Chen ("Joan" came along later) decided not to follow in her family's footsteps and study medicine, and instead attended the Shanghai Institute of Foreign Languages and the Shanghai Film Academy.
	www.askmen.com /women/actress_200/210_joan_chen.html (429 words)

	Joan Chen pictures, photos, wallpapers, desktop themes, posters, music, videos, DVDs, and memorabilia
		Joan Chen (born April 26, 1961) is an actress and film director.
		She went on to star in Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor in 1987 and the David Lynch television series Twin Peaks.
		Joan was first spotted by the wife of Mao Tse-Tung at a Chinese rifle range.
	www.entertainzones.com /actresses/c/joan-chen (327 words)

	Combustible Celluloid - Interview with Joan Chen
		Chen also produced and along with her old friend writer Geling Yan, wrote the screenplay which was based on "Celestial Bath," a short story by Geling.
		Although both Chen and Geling were about the same age as Xiu Xiu during that time period, "We were both luckier than Xiu Xiu," Joan says.
		Chen knew she would have trouble getting a permit to shoot in China considering the controversial material.
	www.combustiblecelluloid.com /intchen.shtml (1314 words)

	Joan Chen
		Chen has found critical and commercial success in Hollywood, Hong Kong, and China.
		Despite her obvious talent, roles were few and far between for Chen, but she landed a breakthrough role in Bernardo Bertolucci's
		Chen returned to China in the mid-1990s, where she starred in several successful films, including
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0880658.html (149 words)

	Boxoffice Magazine CineAsia Extra: Star Talk: JOAN CHEN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Prior to filming, Chen spent a great deal of time and energy with casting, because of the importance of making exactly perfect choices for what is essentially a two-character drama.
		Chen describes herself as a director who "relates the best with actors, because I know what it feels like to be on that side of the camera." But as a filmmaker she tapped into her own past in other ways, too.
		Her brother Chen Chaun is an artist, using the professional name Chase Chenoff, and she turned to him for advice on production design and art direction.
	www.boxoff.com /dec98asia2.html (762 words)

	Joan Chen @ Filmbug
		Joan Chen made her directorial feature debut in 1998 with Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl.
		Born in Shanghai, China, Chen was selected for the Actors' Training Program by the Shanghai Film Studio in 1975.
		Chen left China for America in 1981 to study filmmaking and graduated with honors from the California State University, Northridge.
	www.filmbug.com /db/1384 (348 words)

	Joan Chen Biography Page
		Actress Joan Chen was born into a family of doctors.
		She came to US to attend college in 1981, first at the State University of New York at New Paltz, then at California State University at Northridge.
		Joan had a succession of small parts in movies and TV, with first break coming in 1986 when Dino DiLaurentis discovered her in the Lorimar parking lot and cast her in Tai-pan.
	www.asianstarz.com /Starz-C/joanchen1.htm (183 words)

	Biography for Joan Chen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Born into a family of doctors and educated in China at the Shanghai Film Academy and the Shanghai Institute of Foreign Languages, Joan Chen was discovered by veteran Chinese director Jin Xie while observing a filming with a school group.
		This, and her role as enigmatic mill owner Josie Packard in the cult TV series "Twin Peaks" (1990), are her best-known roles in the West.
		However, Hollywood's practice of typecasting Asians has led to a dearth of major roles for Chen since then, and in recent roles, she has often been cast as a villainess.
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0001040/bio (461 words)

	Joan Chen :- Links to news stories, photos, galleries, information and gossip. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Another song in the same film, High Flies the Petrel, was also sung by Joan Chen's role.
		In China, the song, "I Love You, China", a perennial favorite of serious music lovers, is inextricably associated with Joan Chen who played the heroine in the film Overseas Compatriots (Chinese: æµ·å¤—èµ¤å) (1979) and, through her voice, the song was sung.
		Joan Chen, picture galleries, photos, clips, biography, filmography.
	www.celebrityrings.com /celebrity/joan_chen (335 words)

	Joan Chen
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		Joan was born in 1961-04-26 in Shanghai, China.
		Joan Chen sometime credited as Chen Chong, Chong Chen.
	www.espritlibre.ws /celebrities/joan_chen (177 words)

	AfterEllen.com - Interview with Saving Face's Alice Wu and Joan Chen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Alice Wu, the out lesbian writer/director, is so enthusiastic about her debut film, Saving Face, that it’s hard not to share in her excitement.
		The story of mother and daughter, Ma (Joan Chen) and Wil (Michelle Krusiec), and the secrets that tear them apart (Wil is a lesbian and widowed Ma is pregnant by an unnamed father) as well as keep them together.
		Joan Chen: Recently China has become rich, relatively speaking, but in the past hundred years, food was kind of scarce.
	www.afterellen.com /People/2005/5/wu-chen.html (975 words)

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	Cinephiles Discussion Forums: Joan Chen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		I think that Joan Chen is the most beautiful woman who
		Joan Chen deserves to be ranked among the greatest
		In the film, Joan and Anne have a lesbian relationship.
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