The pictures, taken by a Los Angeles-based paparazzi agency, showed Zhang on the Caribbean island of St Barts with her fiance, Israeli investor Vivi Nevo, last Friday.
Zhang was photographed in a red bikini reading a book, doing a bridge and even a splits on the sand.
She took off her red bikini top and rolled down her bottom as she sun bathed and the photographs captured her lying topless beside her fiance.Fiance Vivi Nevo was also caught on camera grabbing her bottom and enthusiastically kissing the whole length of her back.
Lianhe Wanbao reported that Chinese Internet forums have been flooded with comments including critiques of her figure, and allegations that "she has forgotten she is Chinese".
Zhang Ziyi is topless, blurry
International film star, Zhang Ziyi, best known from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and, shudder, Rush Hour 2, ended up at the beach topless with some guy fingering her as seen in these watermarked, low quality pictures.
Ugh, foreigners. Look here little lady. I don’t know how they do it over there in China, but over here in America we don’t stand for these shenanigans. Only one or two blurry shots of you topless? No, this won’t do at all. But, considering your man defiled you in public, I’m willing to let it slide this time.
Oh and it looks like they may have been caught. Hmph, lifeguards always have to ruin the fun. Like that one time I was harpooning seals which was made worse by the fact that I called Tara Reid a seal.