Talk:Bai Ling

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May she be included in the "bisexual actors" category please? 8/28/6

added. Calicore 04:10, 6 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Can someone post a picture. Bai Ling looks beautiful on picture in her earlier days. Can someone find an earlier picture?

The content in this article is identically the same as that in [1], even thought the website doesn't claim the copyright clearly. Is that alright? --Yacht 04:04, Mar 28, 2004 (UTC)

Oh, i've checked out the copyright. it's allow to be licenced to GFDL. --Yacht 04:07, Mar 28, 2004 (UTC)

Including Star Wars in Filmography

If she was cut from Episode III, should it still be included in her filmography? I would think not. --feitclub 11:12, May 12, 2005 (UTC)

Yet she did act in a few scenes for the movie, and presumably she was paid for her work. Add to that the fact that she appears in some of the deleted scenes on the Episode III DVD. — EagleOne\^Talk 03:24, 5 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Cleanup taskforce closed This article has too many links, is too confusing, and in some parts unsubstantiated.

Chegdu is the capital City of the Sichuan region - therefore it is incorrect to say she moved from Chengdu to Sichuan (a bit like saying someone moved from London to England!).

I think the author should take note of her unpopularity within Chinese audiences.

What Does This Mean?

"...and the combination of Ling and a surname is very common."

Um...aren't ALL personal names, every one of them, always used in combination with a surname? OF COURSE a common personal name will be commonly used in combination with a surname. What is trying to be said here? --Charlene 12:53, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I believe that is just saying that "Ling" is a common personal name in China. -- Huntster ^{T • @ • C} 01:43, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Based on personal knowledge of someone who knew her back in Sichuan growing up, she was more likely born between 1962 and 1964. She has a younger brother (not according to her quoted birthday) who was born in 1969. She was in the children's art group in Chengdu. Her father teaches at Sichuan University. When she came to the United States she was traveling and performing as a dancer. I saw her perform for a local Chinese New Year celebration in early 93 or 94 and she did not look 23 or 24 then. Taipan525 00:14, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Her age

There are many versions about her birth year: 1961, 1963, 1968, and 1970, as of 2007. Check this image out: [2]. It's a movie shot in 1985. You may barely believe that she was 15 then, if you cannot tell the age of an oriental woman easily. But as a Chinese, I believe she looks more 24 than 15 on that picture. Also think about her role in her first movie On the Beach, as a country girl who became a worker, fought against her father's will for her to marry her cousin, and fall in love with another young man. Chinese authority would not possibly allow a "14 year old girl" to act like that in early 1980's. She must be over her 20s then. --Mongol 19:06, 5 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thats a subjective opinion without any basis or factual evidence to support the statement. The actress has said she was born in 1970 I believe, so there is no reason to doubt her unless sufficent EVIDENCE turns up to say otherwise.

So far it is speculation.

Also why is her participation in the Tianamen Square protests in question? Over a million people particpated in Beijing alone, not to mention the other hundreds of thousands around the country, its not exactly like it would have exactly been very hard to do, or that they were restricted to a select group.