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2 unusual facts about Gwei Lun-mei


Gwei Lun-Mei

Set partly against the sombre reality of Taiwan’s martial law period (1949-1987) and partly against the newfound freedom that the once-oppressed protagonists are struggling to cope with, the film charts the tortured emotional lives of its three characters (played by Gwei, Joseph Chang and Rhydian Vaughan) over the decades.

Lun-Mei then appeared in a few more movies before she went on to gain more recognition in the movie Secret directed by Jay Chou, which Gwei acted as the female lead, Lu Xiao Yu with Chou himself playing the male lead, Ye Xiang Lun.


1991 Rose Bowl

The game was presiding over the 1991 Rose Queen Cara Rullman, San Marino High School, the Royal Court (Dawn Gray, Tisha Mei-Lin Kong, Harini Reddy, Jessica Roegler, Wendy Schnee and Andrea Uyeda).

Alleycat Rock: Female Boss

Tough girl biker Ako (pop singer Akiko Wada) comes across Mei (Meiko Kaji) and her girl gang (the Alleycats/Stray Cats) as they are about to have a knife fight in Shinjuku, Tokyo with another gang of girls.

Alter és Kiss

The brand was revived in 2009 by its new creators, Central St. Martins graduates Gabor Fabricius and Mei Mei Ding, with the support of the Alter family.

Armed Islamic Group of Algeria

In May, FIS suffered an apparent blow as Abderrezak Redjam, Mohammed Said, the exiled Anwar Haddam, and the MEI's Said Makhloufi joined the GIA; since the GIA had been issuing death threats against them since November 1993, this came as a surprise to many observers, who interpreted it either as the result of intra-FIS competition or as an attempt to change the GIA's course from within.

Bai Qi

Born in Mei (now Mei County in Shaanxi Province), as commander of the Qin army for more than 30 years, Bai Qi was responsible for the deaths of a total over 890,000 enemy soldiers, earning him the nickname Ren Tu (人屠 human butcher).

Bernardino Mei

The Italian painter and engraver Bernardino Mei (1612/15 – 1676) worked in a Baroque manner in his native Siena and in Rome, finding patronage above all in the Chigi family.

Bowie Tsang

Her father is popular Hong Kong actor, Eric Tsang and her mother is Taiwanese actress Wang Mei-Hua (王美華).

Camilla Gottschalck

Camilla Gottschalck has for instance worked with and is trained by Sarah Boberg, Pia Bovin, Lane Lind, Jesper Lohmann, Ken Vedsegaard, Inge Dinesen, Finn Hesselager, Mei Oulund, Bronwen Loshak and Peter Dupont Weiss.

Carol Thurston

She appeared in eight other films in the 1940s, including the roles of Rosa in the spy thriller, The Conspirators, Siu-Mei in Pearl S. Buck's China Sky, Toni Rosseau in Swamp Fire, Carmelita Mendoza in Jewels of Brandenburg, Narana in Arctic Manhunt, and Watona in Apache Chief.

Chang Fu-mei

Chang moved to the United States after witnessing her close friends being defamed and incarcerated after the Kaohsiung Incident.

Chi Mei Museum

Shi Wen-long (許文龍) set up the Chi Mei Museum, because he wanted to complete his childhood dream.

Besides these, the Chi Mei Museum also owns a private symphony orchestra named the Chimei Philharmonic Orchestra, founded in 2003.

Chiao Mei

Despite being the second billed character in the film, Mei's role is actually very insignificant, basically only existing to be a love interest for the film's protagonist, Cheng Chao-an portrayed by Bruce Lee.

China Sky

Sara and Siu-mei, a young Chinese intern played by Carol Thurston, evacuate patients and babies from the women's hospital.

Consort Mei

Consort Mei (d. 755) was an imperial consort of the Chinese dynasty Tang Dynasty during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang.

Eat a Bowl of Tea

:Mei Oi is the stunningly beautiful wife of Ben Loy and the daughter of Lee Gong and Jung Shee, still living in Sunwei, China, Others admire Mei Oi for her comely appearance and her level of education, as schooling for women was rare in her circumstances.

Eddie Chong

Bak Mei emphasizes the movements of the Tiger, but Bak Mei also uses the other four animal styles associated with the Henan Shaolin Temple as well such as the Tiger, the Crane, the Leopard, the Snake and the Dragon.

Elva Hsiao

Many other Warner artists (including Stefanie Sun, Machi, A-Mei, and F.I.R.) were affected and did not see much promotion on their albums.

Elva signed into Warner Music on 23 March 2005, making her Warner Taiwan's "fifth diva" (after Sammi Cheng, A-Mei Chang, Na Ying, and Stefanie Sun).

Galaxy Macau

The opening programme included the premiere of Tsui’s latest work, The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate 3D, China’s first 3D wuxia movie, which stars Li, Zhou Xun, Chen Kun and Gwei Lun-mei.

George Leslie Mackay

The large cast featured Thomas Meglioranza (baritone) as George Mackay, Chen Mei-Lin (soprano) as Mackay's wife Tiuⁿ Chhang-miâ, and Choi Seung-Jin (tenor) as Giâm Chheng-hoâ, Mackay's first disciple and follower in Taiwan.

Hobson's choice

In The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham, Kitty Fane is described by Charles Townsend as facing Hobson's choice after she is given an ultimatum by her husband Walter to either accompany him to cholera-infested Mei-Tan-Fu, or convince her lover Townsend to divorce his wife Dorothy so he can marry Kitty, which Walter knows in hindsight is unlikely because the divorce will ruin Townsend's chances of political advancement.

Invincible Shan Bao Mei

After Fated to Love You's success, Invincible Shan Bao Mei was launched as its successor.

Jae Chong

A-mei (Taiwan) – The most successful female pop singer of Taiwan

James Munro Bertram

In Peking Bertram studied Chinese including at Yenching University where one of the men he shared a room with was Wang Ju-mei who was later to be better known under his Communist Party name of Huang Hua as the longest-serving foreign minister of the PRC after Zhou Enlai.

Janez Krstnik Dolar

Miserere mei Deus: SATB, SATB in concerto, SATB, SATB in cappella, 2 Violini, 2 Viole, 2 Clarini, 2 Cornetti Muti, 3 Tromboni, Violone & Organo.

Jay Zhong

Renowned musicians who have openly acknowledged Zhong's talents include pianist Constance Keene, Robert Koenig, Yuan Sheng, violist Hong Mei Xiao, violinist Daniel Phillips, Pierre Amoyal, Elmar Oliveira, Nathan Milstein (as mentioned above) among others.

Jeff Greene

In 2007, Greene married Chinese Australian, real estate executive Mei Sze Chan, who is twenty years his junior in age.

Judith E. Stein

Consulting Curator for the Pennsylvania Convention Center since 1995, she has supervised commissioned works by Jones and Ginzel, Mei-ling Hom, Judy Pfaff, John Scott, among others.

Letter from Peking

Mei-lan sends letters to Ellizabeth through friends in Manila and Bangkok.

Lev Mei

Mei lived a dissipated and bohemian life, with a great fondness for drink, which led to his untimely death on 16/28 May 1862.

Lucienne Stassaert

Michiel van Kempen, Bespreking van De lichtvoetige amazone: Het geheime leven van Aphra Behn In: Oso, Tijdschrift voor Surinaamse taalkunde, letterkunde en geschiedenis, 21 (2002), nr. 1, mei, pp.

Mei Ze

A native of Runan (汝南, present-day Wuchang District, Hubei province), Mei Ze served as governor of Yuzhang Prefecture (豫章, present-day Nanchang, Jiangxi province).

Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

Endocrinology is an artists' book made in collaboration with visual artist Kiki Smith.

New York : Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art. 1987 (A collaboration with Richard Tuttle)

Traveling frequently to New York City, Berssenbrugge became engaged in the rich cultural flourishing of the abstract art movement, and was influenced by New York School poets John Ashbery, Barbara Guest, James Schuyler and Anne Waldman, and then the Language poets, including Charles Bernstein, as well as artist Susan Bee.

Mei-Ting Sun

Sun has been featured several times on WQXR Classical Radio as part of the “Young Artist Showcase” program and on NPR as part of the “Performance Today” program.

Miriam Yeung

She seeks out Mei (Bai Ling), who shares with Ching the horrific secret ingredient in her dumplings that keep her young.

Montreal Economic Institute

From 2000 until 2008, the MEI prepared a ranking of Quebec high schools published in L'actualité magazine every fall.

Qing Yi Wu Jia

Qing Yi Wu Jia (情義無價) (1988) is a TV series starring Jaime Chik Mei Chun (戚美珍), Jacky Chang (張晨光), Chiu Yu Ting (邱于庭) and Kou Shih-hsiun (寇世勳) produced by China Television.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Suzhou

Cardinal Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei (龔品梅) (Apostolic Administrator July 15, 1950 – March 12, 2000)

Scheibenschlagen

Mals, Upper Vinschgau: Oh reim reim, wem weard eppar dia Scheib sein, dia Scheib und mei Kniascheib kearn dem Hanssmerl und der Seffa zur a guate Nocht, daß die Bettstatt krocht.

Tsing Yi Fire Station

The fire station is located between Tsing Yi Police Station, Chung Mei Road Temporary Playground, a telephone exchange of PCCW and under a Tin Hau Temple.

Wu Mi

With Mei Guangdi's help, Wu enrolled in the School of Comparative literature in Harvard University where he studied with Professor Irving Babbitt.

Yin Mei

Yin Mei has pursued notable collaborations, including work with visual artist Xu Bing and composer Tony Prabowo on Empty Tradition/City of Peonies (1998), and visual artist Cai Guo-Qiang and composer Robert Een on /Asunder (2001).

Zhu Xiao-Mei

The Cultural Revolution interfered with her progress and she spent five years in a working camp in Zhangjiakou.


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