Screen LibraryThe man who loved China：the fantastic story of the eccentric scientist who unlocked the mysteries of the Middle Kingdom
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Harper,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY |
| Publication Dates: | c2008. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Item Description: | Science and civilisation in China. |
| Carrier Form: | xii, 316 p.: ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780060884598 0060884592 |
| Index Number: | K835 |
| CLC: | K835.616.1 |
| Call Number: | K835.616.1/N374W |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-294) and index. Prologue -- The barbarian and the celestial -- Bringing fuel in snowy weather -- The discovering of China -- The rewards of restlessness -- The making of his masterpiece -- Persona non grata: the certain fall from grace -- The passage to the gate. The Barbarian and the Celestial -- Brining fuel in snowy weather -- the discovering of China -- The rewards of restlessness -- The making of His masterpiece -- Persona non grata: the certain fall from grace -- The passage to the gate. The extraordinary story of Joseph Needham, the brilliant Cambridge scientist who unlocked the most closely held secrets of China--long the world's most technologically advanced country. This married Englishman, a freethinking intellectual, while working at Cambridge University in 1937, fell in love with a visiting Chinese student, with whom he began a lifelong affair. He became fascinated with China, and embarked on a series of extraordinary expeditions to the farthest frontiers of this ancient empire. He searched everywhere for evidence to bolster his conviction that the Chinese were respon |