Joseph Needham. Science and Civilisation in China: The Social Background, General Conclusions and Reflections, vol. 7, part 2.(Book review)

From: China Review International | Date: September 22, 2005| Author: Sivin, Nathan | Copyright information

Joseph Needham. Science and Civilisation in China. Volume 7, The Social Background. Part 2, General Conclusions and Reflections. Edited by Kenneth Girdwood Robinson, with contributions by Ray Huang. Introduction by Mark Elvin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. li, 283 pp. Hardcover $100.00, ISBN 0-521-08732-5.

One memorable summer evening in 1981, while fending off gypsy violinists at a very grand restaurant in Bucharest, Lu Gwei-djen, Nakayama Shigeru, and I ...

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