The 'Chinese' Theory: For and Against

[Jorge_Stolfi]

As far as I’m concerned, there isn’t a single indication in the book that in any way points to a Chinese origin.

That is true.  

Except for the structure of the words, the absence of identifiable "European" language features (like articles, copulas, inflections, etc.), the many dozens of plants "that no doctor in Bohemia could recognize", the Zodiac divided into strictly 24 x 15 or 12 x 30 "things" (rather than 28/30/31), ...

And a section whose paragraph count and lengths (in tokens) match the count and lengths (in hanzi) of the recipes from the most important Chinese medical book ever...

And two large symbols on page 1 that don't look anything like Western letters or symbols...

Basing a translation on a recipe is utter nonsense.

I see that you have spent zero effort on trying to understand what I have been doing or writing.  Oh well.

All the best, --stolfi