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In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, brings to life the extraordinary story of Joseph Needham—the brilliant Cambridge scientist, freethinking intellectual, and practicing nudist who unlocked the most closely held secrets of China, once the world's most technologically advanced country.

Maps and Illustrations

Author's Note

Prologue

1.The Barbarian and the Celestial

2.Bringing Fuel in Snowy Weather

3.The Discovering of China

4.The Rewards of Restlessness

5.The Making of His Masterpiece

6.Persona Non Grata: The Certain Fall from Grace

7.The Passage to the Gate

Epilogue

Appendix I: Chinese Inventions and Discoveries with Dates of First Mention

Appendix II: States, Kingdoms, and Dynasties Of China

Acknowledgments

Suggested Further Reading

Index

Simon Winchester's many books include The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, Krakatoa, and A Crack in the Edge of the World. Each of these has been a New York Times bestseller and has appeared on numerous best and notable lists. Mr. Winchester was made Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by HM The Queen in 2006. He lives in western Massachusetts.

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Payne was discussing the American bombing raids on Tokyo the year before, somewhat approvingly, and the Chinese sage was nodding his head in a way that Payne assumed signified complete agreement. It was only after the man began to speak that he realized “for the thousandth time since I came to China that a man who nods his head may actually be expressing the most profound disagreement. "I was in Chongqing during the bombardment. I have no wish that the Japanese should share the same fate. Nothing is so terrible, nothing is so remorseless, nothing so revolting to the soul as a bombardment. The soul cannot suffer in peace after such indignities. Only now, two years afterward, can I think coolly of what happened, and I now praise God that China for centuries refused to harbour such things. Th...

When Stein found the scroll documents in Dunhuang: “He wanted them. He wanted them badly-more than anything else he had ever seen. Scholarship needed them, he argued, so that once and for all the world could know how the Buddha came to China”.

竺可桢, president of Zhejiang university at the time, sent a large number of books to Needham in Cambridge as a gift, including 古今图书集成, The Complete Collection of Illustrations and Writings of Ancient and Modern Times. It was the sum, in other words, of all Chinese knowledge. The book had been commissionsed in 1700 by 康熙皇帝. It took its authors twenty-six years to complete. The edition Needham received which was created a century and a half after the first, compresed very nearly 2,000 books: the edition currently at the Library of Congress in Washington sports almost 6,000.

When Needham estimated the book will have seven volumes and ten years to complete, not everyone accepted the plan with the same equanimity. It was swiftly pointed out by a small group of naysayers that as a reader appointed by the university, Needham was still officially supposed to be teaching-that, after all, was why he was paid. Instead of writing a book about China he should simply stick to teaching undergraduate embryology and carry on with his research into the mysteries of such biochemically fascinating substances as inositol, which had occupied him six years earlier, before he had taken off for Chongqing in 1942. But luckily only a very few took so stringent a view, and within weeks Needham’s interest in China was formally recognized by the university, and he was granted official l...

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　　作者简介：Simon Winchester's many books include The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, Krakatoa, and A Crack in the Edge of the World. Each of these has been a New York Times bestseller and has appeared on numerous best and notable lists. Mr. Winchester was made Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by HM The Queen in 2006. He lives in western Massachusetts.

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In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, brings to life the extraordinary story of Joseph Needham—the brilliant Cambridge scientist, freethinking intellectual, and practicing nudist who unlocked the most closely held secrets of China, once the world's most technologically advanced country.