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...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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