How Chinese is Chinese History

Despite the nationalistic propganda of millennia of Chinese statism, there may well have been significant Western influence on China from an early date. Also, there's an interesting story about Roman heritage in a certain, obscure Chinese village. Here are some other sites dealing with European influence in China: http://www.geocities.com/solarguard/pagan/mummies.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/chinamum/
Strange mummies found in Urumchi http://mmac.homestead.com/history.html