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 * ...that zaojing, an elaborately ornamented wooden ceiling, shaped like a well and often painted with water plants, was believed by the ancient Chinese to prevent wooden buildings from burning?
 * ...that the first medical missions in China began in part because the missionary Robert Morrison wanted to discover whether the Chinese pharmacopoeia could cure disease in the West?
 * ...that the study of sociology in China was repressed as a bourgeois pseudoscience during the early communist era?

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 * 1) Recent additions/2007/September, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.
 * 2) Recent additions/2008/March, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.
 * 3) Recent additions/2009/July, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.