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...which keeps the movie racing blindly along, leaves little room for plot, and only a minimum is supplied. Bruce Lee (who starred last spring in Fists of Fury, one of the first of the current wave of Kung Fu epics) is engaged to penetrate an island fortress ruled by Han (Shih Kien), a sort of made-in-Hong-Kong version of Doctor No. Han traffics in dope and white slavery; his only contact with the outside world is the martial-arts tournament he holds every three years. Lee, armed only with his hands and flying feet, is sent to bring...
Lady Li's tomb was uncovered by Chinese archaeologists, who determined by the pottery, clothing and other artifacts found inside that it had been built during the early Western Han Dynasty, which ruled China from 206 B.C. to A.D. 24. The tomb was immediately recognized as a major historical and artistic find. But it was not until archaeologists began to exhume the body of Lady Li, whose husband was the Marquis of Tai, that they realized that they had made a significant scientific discovery as well...
Perfect Preservation. As a result of the conscientious efforts of the Han Dynasty embalmers, Lady Li's body was in a remarkable state of preservation. Doctors who examined it discovered that the flesh was not dried like that of a mummy, but still moist. They also found the hair well anchored in the scalp and the joints still flexible. Although Lady Li's brain had collapsed into a shapeless mass, her other internal organs were in excellent condition...
...China that circulated in the '60s, especially during the brief ride of the Red Guards, was that Maoism had flung out the past: 3,000 years of willow-pattern tranquillity overthrown, Confucius and Mencius consigned to the paper shredder, and the arts of the ancestral dynasties-Chou and Han, T'ang and Sung, Ming and Chi'ing-abandoned as relics of decadent feudalism, replaced by the cast-concrete colossus of Mao or the agitprop poster of beaming, eupeptic tractor drivers exceeding their norm in Szechwan province...
...centerpiece is Princess Tu Wan's funeral shroud. Found in 1968 in a Han dynasty tomb in Man-Ch'eng, less than 100 miles from Peking, it has already become an object of legend-the Chinese counterpart (at least in Western eyes) to Tutankhamon's gold mask. This is partly due to its extraordinary substance and workmanship: a complete body-armor of 2,156 slips of green and mutton-fat jade, each no bigger than a matchbook cover, intricately sewn and bound together with gold wire. Its archaeological interest is unique: ancient Chinese texts mentioned jade burial...