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“We have done similar integrative studies for smaller cohorts of patients in other previously published papers to prove that it works, but of course the concept needs to be tested on a larger scale before it can be introduced into clinical practice,” says Professor Ulf Hedin at the same department at Karolinska Institutet.

BYD is willing to take its time to become competitive in Germany, said Jan Grindemann, chief operating officer for Hedin Mobility Group, a Swedish company that is handling BYD’s imports into the country.

Keay also tracks the careers of the swashbuckling Swedish explorer Sven Hedin and the highly spiritual Alexandra David-Neel, who in 1924, disguised as a monk, became the first European woman to enter the forbidden city of Lhasa.

The idea that the Silk Road was a Chinese-initiated political project was a fiction concocted in the 1930s by Sven Hedin, a Swedish adventurer who wanted to improve relations between China and the Third Reich.

Chinese historians did not take Hedin seriously.