Note: Bai Ling () is also the name of the leader of Radio Guangdong.
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Bai Ling (; born October 10, 1966
) is a
Chinese-born
American actress.
Biography
Early life
Bai was born in
Chengdu,
People's Republic of China; "Bai", her
family name, literally means "white". Ling, a common Chinese given name, means clever. Her father, Bai Yuxiang (白玉祥), was a musician in the
People's Liberation Army, and later a music teacher. Her mother, Chen Binbin (陈彬彬), was a dancer, stage actress, and a
literature teacher in
Sichuan University; Bai's maternal grandfather was a military officer of the
Kuomintang army, and thus was persecuted during the
Cultural Revolution. In the early 1980s, Bai Ling's parents divorced, and later remarried. Her mother remarried to the writer
Xu Chi (徐迟), renowned for his report titled
Goldbach's Conjecture, about Chinese mathematician
Chen Jingrun. Bai Ling has one older sister Bai Jie (白洁), who works for the Chinese tax bureau, and a younger brother Bai Chen (白陈), who emigrated to
Japan and works for an American company.
