Bai Ling was born in Chengdu, People's Republic of China. Her family name, Bai, literally means white. Ling, a common Chinese given name, means clever. Her father, Bai Yuxiang was a musician in the People's Liberation Army, and later a music teacher. Her mother, Chen Binbin was a dancer, stage actress, and a literature teacher in Sichuan University.
Bai Ling has described herself as a very shy child who discovered self-expression through acting and performance art. She has said that acting allows one to ignore how society tells one to behave and allows other parts within oneself to be expressed. During the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), Bai Ling learned how to perform by participating in Eight model plays her elementary school shows. After her graduation from middle school, she was sent to do labor work at Shuangliu, a suburb county of Chengdu, where the Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport is located.
Before long, she managed to pass the People's Liberation Army's exams, and became an "artist soldier" at Linzhi, Tibet. She also served shortly as an Army nurse. Three years later, she was discharged from the army, and joined People's Art Theater of Chengdu, and became a professional actress. Her performance as a young man in the stage play Yueqin and Little Tiger drew the attention of movie director Teng Wenji, which gained her her first movie role in On The Beach (1985), as a village girl who becomes a factory worker and struggles against her father's will for her to marry her cousin.
In later years, she appeared in several movies. She temporarily moved to New York in 1991 to attend New York University's film department as a visiting scholar, but later obtained a special visa that allowed her to remain in the United States until she became a citizen in 1999.
Bai Ling certainly has had an unusual raise to stardom, It makes one wonder why does she keep flashing her nipple to paparazzi's all over the place? Yes, I use the singular form of the word nipple, as it hasn't come to my attention that she's been shot on camera with both nipples on sight. If anyone knows better, please keep the comments coming.
I can't help but pondering if it's her way to compensate for her shy military teen years? It mustn't have been easy for her in the hugely male dominated people's Liberation Army. Just imagine the harsh environment of Tibet; over 5000 km above the sea level, the rugged mountain winds whispering to the PLA soldier's ears; "I don't know what you've been told, but I know Bai Ling's hot pussy is worth much more than gold!". Sorry, was that Frank Zappa on my mp3 player?
Whoever it was, don't be alarmed, PLA soldiers are heavily trained to resist temptation (and I am not being ironic).
Bai Ling is a controversial American-Chinese Actress, enough so that I'll write more posts on her, and no, not because she's a bi nor a semi-exhibitionist, that isn't controversial enough in my weblog, and sexual undertones don't qualify for controversy if you ask me, sex's way too over-rated and over advertised.
Still, there is something captivating about Bai Ling, she's like a spoiled, mischievous femme fatale diving into the camera flash lights while almost dancing on the red carpet, promoting her cleavage up to a point where other stars start to frown upon her behavior but she just can't be bothered to think what others may or may not think about her actions.
Check out her filmography on IMDb.
Read her ramblings and prose on her personal blog.
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