BOMB, BOOK & COMPASS: JOSEPH NEEDHAM AND THE GREAT SECRETS OF CHINA
by WINCHESTER, SIMON
List Price: HK$ 208.00
¡@ISBN
9780670913794
¡@Subject
CHINA
¡@Publisher
VIKING UK
¡@Publication
2008
¡@Edition
Paperback
¡@Version
Original
¡@Description
Joseph Needham was a distinguished biochemist at Cambridge University, married to a fellow scientist. In 1937 he was asked to supervise a young Chinese student named Lu Gwei-Djen, and in that moment began the two greatest love affairs of his life ¡V Miss Lu, and China. Miss Lu inspired Needham to travel to China where he initially spent three dangerous years as a wartime diplomat. He established himself as the pre-eminent China scholar of all time, firm in his belief that China would one day achieve world prominence. By the end of his life, Needham had become a truly global figure, though banned from America because of his politics. And in 1989, after a fifty-two year affair, he finally married the woman who had first inspired his passion.
