Given the question: Information:  - Tan Sri Dato' Seri Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng (born 6 August 1962) is a Chinese Malaysian actress, best known for performing her own stunts in the Hong Kong action films that brought her to fame in the early 1990s. Born in Ipoh, Malaysia, she was chosen by "People" as one of the "50 Most Beautiful People in the World" in 1997.  - Zhang Ziyi (pronounced ; born 9 February 1979) is a Chinese actress and model. She is considered one of the Four Dan Actresses of China, and the most well-known Asian actress in the West.  - The Modern Amazons : Warrior Women On - Screen ( ISBN 0 - 87910 - 327 - 2 ) by Dominique Mainon and James Ursini , published by Hal Leonard / Limelight Editions is a non-fiction book documenting the evolution of the female action hero in cinema , television and pop - culture . From Barbarella to Barb Wire , the book surveys the public 's interest with the warrior - woman and amazon archetype in media . From the same authors who wrote Cinema of Obsession : Erotic Fixation and Love Gone Wrong in the Movies ( book ) , this book also contains hundreds of illustrations , and a complete bibliography , an extensive 30 page filmography , as well as sidebars about trends , style , and trivia . The warrior - woman image throughout the past five decades is explored , from the iconic Raquel Welch in the prehistoric adventure fantasy One Million Years BC in the `` fur bikinis and jungle love '' chapter , to the blaxploitation films ( Coffy , Foxy Brown , and Sheba , Baby ) made famous by Pam Grier , the first African - American woman to play a warrior woman within the action movie genre . Included also is Lucy Lawless ' six - season portrayal of Xena : Warrior Princess ; Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft in two Tomb Raider movies ; Sigourney Weaver as Ripley in the sci - fi Alien adventures , and all the various women who have played vampire slayers , superheroes ( and villains ) , as well as assorted television , cartoon , comics , and video game fighter characters in the various movie action / adventure genres . In addition , the book highlights Hong Kong martials arts warriors such as Angela Mao ( Enter the Dragon ) and Zhang Ziyi ( Crouching Tiger , Hidden Dragon ) and Cynthia Rothrock , and also sexploitation films , including the controversial Ilsa trilogy .  - Chow Yun-fat, SBS (born May 18, 1955), previously known as Donald Chow, is a Hong Kong actor. He is best known in Asia for his collaborations with filmmaker John Woo in the heroic bloodshed-genre films "A Better Tomorrow", "The Killer" and "Hard Boiled"; and in the West for his roles as Li Mu-bai in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and Sao Feng in "". He mainly plays in dramatic films and has won three Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Actor and two Golden Horse Awards for Best Actor in Taiwan.  - China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary sovereign state in East Asia. With a population of over 1.381 billion, it is the world's most populous country. The state is governed by the Communist Party of China, and its capital is Beijing. It exercises jurisdiction over 22 provinces, five autonomous regions, four direct-controlled municipalities (Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Chongqing), and two mostly self-governing special administrative regions (Hong Kong and Macau), and claims sovereignty over Taiwan. The country's major urban areas include Shanghai, Guangzhou, Beijing, Chongqing, Shenzhen, Tianjin and Hong Kong. China is a great power and a major regional power within Asia, and has been characterized as a potential superpower.  - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is an internationally co-produced martial arts wuxia film. Production funding came from investors in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the United States. Directed by Ang Lee and featuring an international cast of Chinese actors, including Chow Yun-fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi and Chang Chen, the film was released in 2000. It was based on the fourth novel, of the same name, in the wuxia book series "Crane Iron Pentalogy", by Chinese novelist Wang Dulu. The martial arts and fighting action sequences were choreographed by Yuen Wo Ping, who later directed the English language sequel "", released in 2016.  - Chang Chen (born 14 October 1976), sometimes credited as Chen Chang according to Western name order, is a Taiwanese actor. His father Chang Kuo-chu and his brother are also actors.  - Blaxploitation or blacksploitation is an ethnic subgenre of the exploitation film, emerging in the United States during the early 1970s. Blaxploitation films were originally made specifically for an urban black audience, but the genre's audience appeal soon broadened across racial and ethnic lines. The Los Angeles National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) head and ex-film publicist Junius Griffin coined the term from the words "black" and "exploitation." Blaxploitation films were the first to regularly feature soundtracks of funk and soul music and primarily black casts. "Variety" credited "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song" and the less radical Hollywood-financed film "Shaft" (both released in 1971) with the invention of the blaxploitation genre.  - Coffy is a 1973 American blaxploitation film written and directed by American filmmaker Jack Hill. The story is about a black female vigilante played by Pam Grier.  - Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song is a 1971 American independent action thriller film written, produced, scored, edited, directed by and starring Melvin Van Peebles. His son Mario Van Peebles also appears in a small role, playing the title character as a young boy. It tells the picaresque story of a poor African American man on his flight from the white authority.  - Hong Kong, officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, is an autonomous territory on the Pearl River Delta of East Asia. Macau lies across the delta to the west, and the Chinese province of Guangdong borders the territory to the north. With a total land area of and a population of over 7.3 million of various nationalities, it ranks as the world's fourth most densely populated sovereign state or territory.  - Enter the Dragon is a 1973 Hong Kong-American martial arts film directed by Robert Clouse, starring Bruce Lee, John Saxon and Jim Kelly. This was Bruce Lee's final film appearance before his death on 20 July 1973 at age 32. The film was first released on 26 July 1973 in Hong Kong, six days after Lee's death.  - Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American filmmaker and actor. His films are characterized by nonlinear storylines, satirical subject matter, an aestheticization of violence, extended scenes of dialogue, ensemble casts consisting of established and lesser-known performers, references to popular culture, soundtracks primarily containing songs and score pieces from the 1960s to the 1980s, and features of neo-noir film.  - Core Design Ltd. (stylised as CORE Design) was a British video game developer best known for "Chuck Rock", "Rick Dangerous" and "Tomb Raider" franchises. It was owned by British publisher Eidos Interactive for most of its history. The studio closed in 2006.  - Dark Horse Comics is an American comic book and manga publisher. It was founded in 1986 by Mike Richardson in Milwaukie, Oregon, with the concept of establishing an ideal atmosphere for creative professionals.  - Austin Stoker (born October 7, 1943) is a Trinidadian-American actor known for his role as Lt. Ethan Bishop, the police officer in charge of the besieged Precinct 9, Division 13, in John Carpenter's Howard Hawks-inspired, 1976 film, "Assault on Precinct 13". This was one of the few heroic starring roles for an African-American actor in an action film of the 1970s outside of the blaxploitation genre.  - Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (also known as simply Tomb Raider) is a 2001 action-adventure film based on the popular "Tomb Raider" video game series featuring the character Lara Croft portrayed by Angelina Jolie. The film was directed by Simon West and was released during the summer of 2001. The film revolves around Lara Croft trying to obtain ancient artifacts from the enemy, the Illuminati. The film received generally negative reviews for its stylized action and bland plot, although Angelina Jolie was praised for her performance as Lara Croft. "Tomb Raider" was the highest-grossing film on its opening weekend. A sequel, "", was released in 2003.  - The Big Bird Cage is a 1972 American exploitation film of the "women in prison" subgenre. It serves as a non-sequel follow-up to the 1971 film "The Big Doll House". The film was written and directed by Jack Hill, and stars Pam Grier, Sid Haig, Anitra Ford, and Carol Speed.  - Robert Clouse (March 6, 1928  February 4, 1997) was an American film director and producer, known primarily for his work in the action/adventure and martial arts genres. He died on February 4, 1997 in Oregon of kidney failure.  - Toby Gard (born 1972 in Chelmsford, Essex) is an English computer game character designer and consultant, notably being part of the team that created fictional female British archaeologist Lara Croft. Lara Croft was awarded a "Guinness World Record" recognizing her as the "most successful human video game heroine."  - Ang Lee (born October 23, 1954) is a Taiwanese-born film director, screenwriter and producer.  - Wang Baoxiang (19091977), courtesy name Xiaoyu, better known by his pen name Wang Dulu, was a Chinese writer of "wuxia" novels. Wang is best known for his work, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", that was adapted into a successful feature film of the same title by film director Ang Lee in 2000.  - Sheba, Baby is a 1975 American blaxploitation action film starring Pam Grier and Austin Stoker.  - Jack Hill (born January 28, 1933) is an American film director in the exploitation film genre. Several of Hill's later films have been characterized as feminist works.  - The original Square Enix Co., Ltd. was formed as the result of a statutory merger between Enix Corporation and Square Co., Ltd. on April 1, 2003, with Enix legally absorbing Square. Each share of Square's common stock was exchanged for 0.85 shares of Enix's common stock. At the time, 80% of Square Enix staff were made up of former Square employees. As part of the merger, former Square president Yoichi Wada was appointed president of the new corporation, while former Enix president Keiji Honda was named its vice president, and the founder of Enix, Yasuhiro Fukushima, the largest shareholder of the combined corporation, became its honorary chairman. As a result of the merger, Square Co., Ltd. was dissolved and Enix was the surviving company.   - Dominique Mainon (April 4, 1970  January 26, 2012) was an American author, screenwriter and filmmaker living in Laguna Beach, California.   - Angela Mao (born Mao Fujing, , 20 September 1950), is a Taiwanese actress and martial artist best known for appearing in many martial arts films in the 1970s. She is sometimes credited as Mao Ying or Angela Mao Ying. She is nicknamed "Lady Whirlwind" and "Lady Kung Fu" by her fans.,and the movie the tournament  - Laguna Beach is a seaside resort city located in southern Orange County, California, in the United States. It is known for a mild year-round climate, scenic coves, environmental preservation, and artist community. The population in the 2010 census was 22,723.  - Lee Jun-fan (November 27, 1940  July 20, 1973), known professionally as Bruce Lee, was a Hong Kong and American actor, martial artist, philosopher, filmmaker, and founder of the martial art Jeet Kune Do. Lee was the son of Cantonese opera star Lee Hoi-Chuen. He is widely considered by commentators, critics, media, and other martial artists to be one of the most influential martial artists of all time, and a pop culture icon of the 20th century. He is often credited with helping to change the way Asians were presented in American films.  - Pamela Suzette "Pam" Grier (born May 26, 1949) is an American actress. She became known in the early 1970s for starring in a string of moderately successful women in prison and blaxploitation films like "The Big Bird Cage" (1972), "Coffy" (1973), "Foxy Brown" (1974) and "Sheba Baby" (1975). She starred in Quentin Tarantino's film "Jackie Brown", for which she received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress. She has also been nominated for a SAG Award as well as a Satellite Award for her performance in "Jackie Brown". Grier is also known for her work on television, for 6 seasons she portrayed Kate 'Kit' Porter on the television series "The L Word". She received an Emmy Award nomination for her work in the animated program "". Rotten Tomatoes has ranked her as the second greatest female action heroine in film history. Director Quentin Tarantino remarked that she may have been cinema's first female action star.  - Lara Croft is a British fictional character and the main protagonist of the Square Enix (previously Eidos Interactive) video game franchise "Tomb Raider". She is presented as a beautiful, intelligent, and athletic English archaeologist-adventurer who ventures into ancient, hazardous tombs and ruins around the world. Created by a team at UK developer Core Design that included Toby Gard, the character first appeared in the 1996 video game "Tomb Raider". She has also appeared in video game sequels, printed adaptations, a series of animated short films, feature films (portrayed by Angelina Jolie), and merchandise related to the series. Official promotion of the character includes a brand of apparel and accessories, action figures, and model portrayals. Croft has also been licensed for third-party promotion, including television and print advertisements, music-related appearances, and as a spokesmodel. As of June 2016, Lara Croft has been featured on over 1,100 magazine covers surpassing any supermodel.  - Tomb Raider, styled as Lara Croft: Tomb Raider between 2001 and 2007, is a media franchise that originated with an action-adventure video game series created by British gaming company Core Design. Formerly owned by Eidos Interactive, then by Square Enix after their acquisition of Eidos in 2009, the franchise focuses on an English archaeologist-adventurer Lara Croft, who travels around the world searching for lost artefacts and infiltrating dangerous tombs and ruins. Croft was created by a team at Core Design that included Toby Gard. The gameplay generally focuses around action-adventure exploration of environments, solving puzzles, navigating hostile environments filled with traps, and fighting numerous enemies.  - Cynthia Ann Christine Rothrock (born March 8, 1957) is an American martial artist and actress specializing in martial arts films. Rothrock holds black belt rankings in seven styles of martial arts and was a high level competitor in martial arts forms before becoming an actress.  - John Saxon (born Carmine Orrico; August 5, 1935) is an American actor and martial artist who has worked on more than 200 projects during a span of 60 years. Saxon is known for his work in westerns and horror films as well as for his role as Roper in the 1973 film "Enter the Dragon", in which he starred alongside Bruce Lee and Jim Kelly. He is well known for playing Lt. Donald Thompson in the 1984 slasher horror film "A Nightmare on Elm Street".  - Barb Wire was a superhero published by Comics Greatest World, an imprint of Dark Horse Comics. A regular series was published for 9 issues between 1994-1995, followed by a mini-series in 1996. In March 2015, Dark Horse announced they would be planning a new series starring the heroine.  - Lady Whirlwind a.k.a. "Deep Thrust" is a 1972 Hong Kong martial arts film directed by Huang Feng, starring Angela Mao.    After reading the paragraphs above, choose the best answer for the entity that related to 'the modern amazons' with the relationship of 'publication date'.  Choices: - 1  - 14  - 18  - 1909  - 1928  - 1935  - 1943  - 1949  - 1955  - 1970  - 1971  - 1972  - 1973  - 1974  - 1975  - 1976  - 1979  - 1986  - 1994  - 1996  - 1997  - 20  - 200  - 2000  - 2001  - 2006  - 2009  - 2010  - 2015  - 2016  - 22  - 23  - 27  - 28  - 3  - 4  - 5  - 6  - 8  - 9  - july 1973  - june 2016  - march 2015  - september 1950
The answer is:
2006