Xu graduated from the Beijing Film Academy's prestigious Performance Institute in 1997.
Along with Zhao Wei, Zhou Xun, and Zhang Ziyi, the mainland Chinese media considers her a member of the Four Young Dan actresses.
Although not well known outside of China, her domestic importance cannot be underestimated: in mid 2006, her Chinese language blog had the most incoming links of any blog in any language on the Internet, according to Technorati.
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