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- 01Pelliot could read fourteen languages and evaluated each Dunhuang scroll in seconds, discarding fakes without pause.
- 02The Dunhuang cave had been sealed around 1000 AD and held 40,000 manuscripts untouched for nearly 900 years.
- 03The monk-guardian Wang Yuanlu was paid £130 by Pelliot — roughly the price of a London dinner jacket.