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Modern China: A Very Short Introduction
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The Water Kingdom: A Secret History of China
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China's history is an epic tapestry of courtly philosophies, warring factions and imperial intrigue....
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China's Geography: Globalization and the Dynamics of Political, Economic, and Social Change
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Despite China's obvious and growing importance on the world stage, it remains often and easily...
Literati Style Penjing: Chinese Bonsai Masterworks
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The art of bonsai is widely known in the West: from the Karate Kid to the American Bonsai...
The Ideals of Inquiry: An Ancient History
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Long before science as we know it today existed, sophisticated studies of the external world were...
The Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
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Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908) is the most important woman in Chinese history. She ruled China for...
Puer Tea: Ancient Caravans and Urban Chic
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Puer tea has been grown for centuries in the Six Great Tea Mountains of Yunnan Province, and in...
Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated Big Trouble in Little China (1986) in Movies
Feb 10, 2021
The plot: The film tells the story of Jack Burton, who helps his friend Wang Chi rescue Wang's green-eyed fiancée from bandits in San Francisco's Chinatown. They go into the mysterious underworld beneath Chinatown, where they face an ancient sorcerer named David Lo Pan, who requires a woman with green eyes to marry him in order to release him from a centuries-old curse.
To compete with rival production The Golden Child’s casting of box office draw Eddie Murphy, Carpenter wanted a big star of his own and both Clint Eastwood and Jack Nicholson were considered but were busy.
The studio felt Kurt Russell was an up-and-coming star. Russell was initially not interested because he felt there were "a number of different ways to approach Jack, but I didn't know if there was a way that would be interesting enough for this movie.
You wouldnt think that the director of "Halloween", "The Fog" and "The Thing" would director this but he did
Its a excellent film.