Black cloth spine with illustrated boards. f/piece of Chinese text with one red character + t.p. with publisher's red logo xxxviii + 318 + 2 large unfolding charts, 28 ills, 13 on 9 plates ex-pagination; were it not for a few tanning spots to top edge this would rate As New.Unclipped jacket virtually As New butvery faint thin vertical broken grey line to back, will add protective sleeve when ordred. This series is perhaps the greatest scholarship project of the 20th century. 19.5 cm x 25 cm.

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Title

SCIENCE AND CIVILISATION IN CHINA Volume 1 : Introductory Orientations

Publisher

Cambridge University Press, London etc.

Publication Date

1977

Language

English

ISBN 10

052105799X

ISBN 13

9780521057998

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Printing

5th or later Printin

Condition

Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Fine

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Dr Joseph Needham's account of the Chinese achievement in science and technology will stand as one of the great works of our time. It has been acclaimed by specialists in both East and West and also by readers with wider and more general interests. The text, based on research of a high critical quality, is supported by many hundreds of illustrations and is imbued with a warm appreciation of China. Volume I is an introductory volume, in which Dr Needham prepares his readers for the study of a whole human culture. He begins by examining the structure of the Chinese language; he reviews the geography of China and the long history of its people, and discusses the scientific contacts which have occurred throughout the centuries, between Europe and East Asia.

Review

"[An] astonishing and enduring study...[Needham brings] depth of emotion and technical finesse to his task."
Jonathan Spence, New York Review of Books

"Perhaps the greatest single act of historical synthesis and intercultural communication ever attempted by one man."
Laurence Picken, Cambridge University

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