He was a late bloomer, finding success at 40 in Luc Besson's 1988 film The Big Blue.

The necessity of finding a substitute for parchment , which was very costly, led to the inventio , in imitation of the bombycinous paper — such was the name given to the cotton paper of the East - of paper made of rags, some say at Basle in 1170, by Greek refugees; others say at Padua in 1301, by an Italian named Pax.

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CHIN HSIANG-KUAN is a barefoot doctor in the Tuchiatsun brigade, Loyuan commune, Changyang county, Hupeh province. He is also a member of both the Fourth and Fifth National People’s Congresses.