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Actress, Director, and Immigrant - Immigrant Voices

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By the time Joan Chen (then known as Chen Chong) was 17 years old, she was a movie star in China. “I was considered the darling of the country,” she said, in an exclusive interview for aiisf.org. “Everyone had a picture of me in their home.” Joan was discovered on a Shanghai school’s rifle range – she was an excellent shooter — by no less an authority figure than Jiang Qing, the wife of Chairman Mao Zedong. In 1975, when she was 14, the Shanghai Film Studio placed her in the Actors’ Training Program. As a teenager, she starred in four films, Youth, Little Flower, An Overseas Chinese and

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