After doing the film-festival rounds (Venice, Toronto, Pusan), the Gong Li-Jeremy Irons starrer Chinese Box finally made it to mainstream American movie screens last week.

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In 1929, a country girl, Chiyo, is sold into bondage at a Kyoto training house for geishas, a house ruled by the foul-tempered Mother (Kaori Momoi) and a nasty top geisha, Hatsumomo (Gong Li) the equivalents of a wicked step-mother and stepsister.

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Earlier this year Mozilla hired away Li Gong, MSN's highest-ranking executive in China, to increase adoption of the Firefox browser in China, where it now has a meager 1% share.

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