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...landing gear won't lower: the plot develops from this seemingly minor detail. The crew wrestles with the mechanism for 10 minutes before the plane is ordered to turn back with only two hours' worth of fuel and 137 passengers on board. On the ground in Beijing, controller Liu Yuan (You Yong) arrives, chain-smokes, swigs coffee and looks suitably tormented. Prodded by Liu, the pilot tries multiple maneuvers, including a touch-and-go landing to bounce the apparatus down, and a manual release of the landing gear by a co-pilot who climbs down onto the wheels. An hour...
...vary the pace, Zhang tosses in some special effects as impressive as anything in Die Hard 2. When controller Liu tells airport authorities what would happen if the forced landing goes wrong, we view a wrenching simulation: the plane nose-dives into the tarmac and doesn't stop until it has ripped through a row of other planes and terminal buildings. By resisting the predictable, Zhang has rewritten the rules. Crash Landing is one giant leap for Chinese cinema. If you think you know China and you think you know movies, see it and think again...
...Before the fleet set off, the men would visit the Jinghai Temple in Taicang to pray to the Taoist goddess known as Tianfei for protection at sea. Spiritually fortified, they boarded their ships, which would head down the Liu Creek to the Yangtze River and eventually into the open seas. With Tianfei's blessing, Zheng He and his men spent two years at sea, landing at present-day Vietnam, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and, eventually, India. Over the next 28 years, Zheng He's flotilla embarked on six other grand voyages. It was an unprecedented massing of naval power. The ships...
...ports that launched Zheng He's fleets, they are long gone, destroyed by five centuries of tumult and neglect. But there are still treasure boats of a sort that ply the Liu Creek, where the armada once assembled. Fan Ping owns one of them, the Sutai Yuyou 503, a small steel ship that doubles as her family's home. It's just 10 m long; the engine a mere 20 h.p. But the 49-year-old matriarch uses the modest craft to ply the waterways for riches. She finds oil spills, sucks them up with a powerful hose and resells...
...Chams, driving them south and scattering them. Some remained Hindu but many in Cambodia and southern Vietnam later converted to Islam en masse, and their ancient culture was nearly forgot-ten. "Do you really mean the Chams once had an empire?" asks an incredulous 69-year-old Tran Dinh Liu, an ethnic Cham Hroi farmer who lives less than an hour from a 12th-century Cham tower near Qui Nhon. "I don't know any history of the nation except the revolution," he says, glancing at the communist People's Committee official who is in attendance...