| 1 | Edgar Snow, Norodom Sihanouk, Henry Kissinger, Joseph Needham, Juan Antonio Samaranch are some of the most well-known ones in the list of "old friends". | |
| 2 | Work on "Science and Civilisation in China" has pressed on since Needham' s death. | |
| 3 | The late Dr. Joseph Needham of Cambridge University enjoyed a high prestige in the Chinese academic circles. | |
| 4 | Even the Chinese themselves use it: the phrase in Mandarin is Li Yuese nanti. | |
| 5 | Work on "Science and Civilisation in China" has pressed on since Needham' s death. |