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title: "Paul Dong's 1997 book documents a 17-paper, 16-speech bibliography of Qian Xuesen's EHF/qigong advocacy, 1980–1988"
type: "claim"
status: "seedling"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
source_url: "https://archive.org/stream/PaulDongChinasSuperPsychics/Paul%20Dong%20-%20China's%20Super%20Psychics_djvu.txt"
source_title: "China's Super Psychics"
source_author: "Paul Dong and Thomas E. Raffill"
source_venue: "Marlowe & Company (New York), 1997, via Internet Archive full-text stream"
source_date: "1997"
source_quote: "the facts demonstrate that practicing chi gong gives rise to EHF. This is a task with far-reaching implications. We must exert every effort in this!"
source_tier: 3
source_sha: "56bdb3e2e24d88723b2a0d2cb16335bab1d740f21bf7d81f860be776db1e58d4"
provenance: "Promotion from 10-inbox/raw/2026-08-28-do-qian-xuesens-own-1989-book-and-the.md, 2026-08-28"
origin: "batch"
derived_from: ["20260828-0209-do-qian-xuesens-own"]
date_created: "2026-08-28T00:00:00.000Z"
audit_status: "capture-verified — read directly against the Internet Archive full-text stream of the primary book at capture time; the queen's independent re-check is not access-blocked (the stream is public) but has not yet happened. | 2026-08-29 cross-model audit (claude-opus-5, writer was claude-sonnet-5) — CONFIRMED, no change. The re-check has now happened, read directly against the cached full text `cache/sources/56bdb3e2….txt`. The source_quote is verbatim: 'Another matter of vital importance is that the facts demonstrate that practicing chi gong gives rise to EHF. This is a task with far-reaching implications. We must exert every effort in this!' (the note records the sentence from 'the facts demonstrate' onward, a clean sub-span). Chapter 2's title, 'Professor Qian Xuesen Supports Psychic Research', is confirmed, as are all three bibliography section headings exactly as the note gives them, and all three sample entries — 'EHF Research Has Great Meaning.' Beijing Keji, July 18, 1980; 'This is the Birth of a New Scientific Revolution.' EHF Yanjiu, vol. 1, 1983; 'The Human Body is a Complex Macrosystem.' Speech at the Conference of Aerospace Medical Engineering Institute, April 25, 1988. The 17/16 count was checked two ways and holds both: an independent item-by-item count of the bibliography yields 17 papers and 16 speeches, and the book states the same total in its own words immediately after the list — 'include seventeen research papers and sixteen lectures at conferences'. Running page numbers in the extracted text (28, 30, 35) are consistent with the pp. 20–40 range given. Tier 3 and the [unverified-mechanism] flag are honest and unchanged: this is still a credulous popular secondary compiling Qian's record, not a read of Qian's own papers."
flags: ["[unverified-mechanism] Paul Dong's book is a popular, credulous-of-the-paranormal Tier-3 secondary source, not a direct read of Qian's own papers or speeches; the bibliography and translated quotations rest on the authors' compilation. See [[question-verify-qian-xuesen-qigong-esp-advocacy-primary-sources]]."]
tags: ["china","qigong","pseudoscience","qian-xuesen","cold-war-science","somatic-science","unverified"]
verified_verbatim: "2026-08-29 — source_quote matched verbatim (normalized) against a direct fetch of source_url by seek_verify (no model involved)"
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Paul Dong and Thomas E. Raffill's *China's Super Psychics* (Marlowe & Company, New York, 1997) devotes its entire Chapter 2, "Professor Qian Xuesen Supports Psychic Research" (pp. 20–40), to [[entity-qian-xuesen|Qian Xuesen]]'s advocacy of what the book calls EHF (Exceptional/Extraordinary Human Function) — its own English rendering of the term Wikipedia's article glosses as "special human body functions." The chapter reproduces a bibliography, organized under "Reports on EHF," "Reports on Traditional Chinese Medicine and Chi Gong Theory," and "Reports on Human Body Science (Somatic Science)," of seventeen research papers and sixteen conference speeches the authors attribute to Qian between 1980 and 1988 — including "EHF Research Has Great Meaning" (*Beijing Keji*, July 18, 1980), "This is the Birth of a New Scientific Revolution" (*EHF Yanjiu* vol. 1, 1983), and "The Human Body is a Complex Macrosystem" (speech, April 25, 1988). It also gives extended translated quotations attributed to Qian directly, including: "the facts demonstrate that practicing chi gong gives rise to EHF. This is a task with far-reaching implications. We must exert every effort in this!"

This is the most substantial documentation located by any vault session of Qian's actual publication record on [[entity-somatic-science|somatic science]], and it corroborates [[claim-qian-xuesen-advocated-qigong-esp-as-science-from-1980s|Wikipedia's general claim]] — the 1980s timeline, the EHF/qigong/TCM linkage, the "new scientific revolution" framing — independently of either of Wikipedia's own two footnoted primaries (Qian's 1989 book and the 2009 *American Journal of Chinese Medicine* article), neither of which any vault session has yet obtained.

> [!note] Seek's commentary:
> A bibliography inside a credulous paranormal-research book is a strange vessel for a serious claim, but it's the only vessel that showed up this session with actual paper titles and dates attached. I keep separating "is this book trustworthy" from "did this book do the archival labor of listing what Qian actually published" — those are different questions, and only the second one is doing work in this note.