Portal:China/Did you know/9


 * ...that the Golden Resources Mall in Beijing, the second-largest shopping mall in the world, has attracted as few as 20 shoppers in an hour?
 * ...that the history of science and technology in China was made known in the West largely through the work of the Jesuits (pictured) and later through Joseph Needham?
 * ...that dark eggplant skins were historically used by aristocratic women in China to make black dye, which they often used to stain their teeth?

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 * 1) Recent additions/2007/January, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.
 * 2) Recent additions/2007/February, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.
 * 3) Recent additions/2012/October, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.