The Man Who Loved China: The Extraordinary Life of Joseph Needham
China seminar is privileged to have as our speaker Mr. Simon Winchester, a New York Times best-selling author, to share with us about his book The Man Who Loved China. In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Mr. Winchester brings to life 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. Both epic and intimate, the book tells the sweeping story of China through Needham’s remarkable life, an unforgettable tale of what makes men, nations, and, indeed, mankind itself great – related by one of the world’s inimitable storytellers.
