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.
Gong was a spokeswoman for Shanghai Tang clothing store.
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.
Li Xiaolu Li Xiaolu, born in Beijing on Sep.