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...When a young state-trained Beijing martial artist named Jet Li arrived at the temple in 1980 to shoot a movie, Yan Ming "barely noticed him." Two years later, none of the monks could afford to be so aloof. Shaolin Temple, the film that made Jet Li, remade Shaolin. Suddenly the temple was swarming with visitors?both tourists and wannabe Jet Lis. The Chinese government, now aware of Shaolin's lucrative allure, resolved to rescue it from its exile in ideological ignominy. Crumbled buildings were resurrected. Secular martial-arts training academies sprang up around the temple's walls to cater...
...says. "Many of the practices for which Shaolin is now famous were developed as a direct response to the way the monks had been portrayed in fiction and drama." If life at the Shaolin Temple has long imitated art, Yan Ming may be writing its newest chapter. Jet Li's next movie, rumor has it, is called Manhattan Monk...
Because the athletic department lent the IOP a high-capacity indoor venue, a historically large crowd will be able to see the IOP speech, Li said...
...Since President Summers was a member of President Clinton’s cabinet, it was natural for Summers to be involved in this trip,” said Gordon Li, the the IOP’s director of communications and outreach...
...required to complete a teacher training program before classes start in which they prepare and present the first few sections of the course in the presence of more experienced section leaders ,” Li says...