The 'Chinese' Theory: For and Against

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What specifically do you mean? The publishing history of the Shennon Bencao? Or the history of contacts between Europe and East Asia?

Historical context - what the Chinese language was like back then, as well as more about Chinese traditional medicine (well, this will help with the balneology section, as it's possible that the liquid flowing through the pipes is qi. This will allow you to link a specific page to a specific topic, such as acupuncture). Anyway, It's always useful to learn something new .

And I don't speak any of those languages -- not a bit. Not to mention how they were 600 years ago.

It's not that bad. It's enough to be able to read Chinese to understand the phonetics.
P.S. I've learned to quote at your request. Finally