Word: shaolin
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...that China has won the bid to host the 2008 Olympics, more foreigners will be visiting the country than ever. They will travel to historic sites and through the back alleys of towns and villages. The Chinese will prepare performances of Beijing opera singers, child acrobats and sword-wielding Shaolin monks to satisfy the West's "China dream," one that has so little to do with ordinary Chinese life...
...star of the people's republic wushu team at 11, a star of the mainland hit The Shaolin Temple at 16. At 25 Li Lianjie came to Hong Kong, got the name Jet Li and brought a ferocious stateliness to such martial epics as Once Upon a Time in China and Fong Sai Yuk. At 35 he played in his first big U.S. film, Lethal Weapon 4, and showed Mel Gibson how real men fight: with stern grace and fatal feet. His debut as a Hollywood star, in Romeo Must Die, took in $100 million world- wide. He has just...
...Master, 1993) and Yeoh (Wing Chun, 1994). Yeoh's glorious balancing act with a plate of tofu is rightly famed: she never lets it touch the ground while successfully fending off an arrogant bruiser. But just as impressive is a scene with Wo-ping himself, in the 1983 Shaolin Drunkard, where he and brother Yat-choh quaff a hundred cups of wine while woozily balancing the wine table on their knees, backs and arms. These feats are descendants of the training scenes in Wo-ping's earlier star-making vehicles with Chan and Hung, but elevated from physical display...
...villains have used chopsticks, pigtails, calligraphy brushes, umbrellas, trash can lids and robe sleeves as impromptu weapons. Another Yuen rule: if it slithers, hops or scoots, hire it! Snakes in 1980's The Buddhist Fist; a man-size toad in the phantasmagorical Miracle Fighters of 1982; rats in Shaolin Drunkard. In the 1977 Broken Oath (the last movie Yuen action-choreographed before he turned director with the Jackie Chan Snake in Eagle's Claw), lovely, severe Angela Mao plays with scorpions; she always has a few handy to place on a villain's neck?where does she hide them...
Martial-arts master Jet Li made his name in Once Upon a Time in China and is now the $10-million-per-movie actor. The star of hits such as Lethal Weapon 4, Shaolin Temple and Romeo Must Die, he spoke to TIME recently on the set of Hero, Asia's most ambitious motion picture. Edited excerpts...