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www.timeoutbeijing.com — Ever since Anna May Wong became the first Chinese movie star to appear in a Hollywood film in the 1930s, Chinese actresses have been trying to crack America. Now the floodgates have opened, with not only Xu Qing confirmed to play Bruce Willis’s wife in Rian Johnson’s sci-fi flick Looper, but actress/singer Zhou Xun set to appear alongside Tom Hanks in Tom Tykwer and the Wachowski Brothers’ new adaptation of David Mitchell book Cloud Atlas.

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