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Jackie Chan starred as the protagonist, Meng Yi, in the 2005 film The Myth. Meng is reincarnated in the present-day as an archaeologist, who embarks on a quest to find a mysterious element that can make objects hover in air, which leads him to Qin Shi Huang's mausoleum.
The film is adapted into a television series of the same title in 2010, with Chan as producer for the series. Hu Ge starred as Yi Xiaochuan, a 21st century young man who is accidentally transported back in time to the Qin Dynasty, where he takes on his new identity as "Meng Yi".
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“We must open our eyes and see that modern civilization has become so complex and the lives of civilized men so interwoven with the lives of other men in other countries as to make it impossible to be in this world and out of it.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)