Simon Winchester Talks About The Man Who Loved China

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01.

Asia Society Introduction

04 min 49 sec

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Eccentric Englishmen

01 min 10 sec

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Discovering Needham

02 min 08 sec

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Writing on Joseph Needham

02 min 05 sec

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Needham's Eccentricities: Humanity and Nudism

03 min 42 sec

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Needham: A Man of Contradictions

02 min 03 sec

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Lu Gwei-Djen

05 min 20 sec

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Needham: The Ambassador

03 min 58 sec

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Discovery of Chinese Invention

03 min 59 sec

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The Needham Question

04 min 18 sec

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Needham's Project

04 min 22 sec

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Needham: The Amateur

03 min 05 sec

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Naiveté in Politics

04 min 05 sec

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The Needham Legacy for China

01 min 08 sec

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Q & A

00 min 30 sec

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Q1: Chinese Physics

04 min 36 sec

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China Conquering the World

01 min 59 sec

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Q2: Western Distortion

04 min 12 sec

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Q3: Researching Lu Gwei-Djen

02 min 08 sec

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Q4: Math & Culture

04 min 04 sec

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Q5: The Lifted U.S. Ban

01 min 41 sec

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• Simon Winchester on Lu Gwei-Djen, Needham's Assistant

  05 min 47 sec

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  Simon Winchester and John Major discuss Joseph Needham's lifelong assistant and mistress Lu Gwei-Djen, a lab scientist and expert on the History of science and technology in China. She co-authored the Science and Civilisation in China series with Joseph Needham and was the first person to pique his interest in China by teaching him Classical Chinese.

• Simon Winchester on Joseph Needham's Epic Project

  04 min 49 sec

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  Journalist and author Simon Winchester and China researcher John Majors discuss the lifelong project of Joseph Needham, the 24 volume Science and Civilisation in China series.
  
  Joseph Needham was was the original China scholar, spending most of his life researching its history of science and technology and attempting to discover how the West was able to surpass China despite its early successes in science and technology.
  
  Winchester's newest book, The Man Who Loved China is about his life and work.

• Simon Winchester on Joesph Needham's Political Naivete

  04 min 31 sec

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  Simon Winchester and John Major discuss the famed China researcher Joseph Needham's political naiveté or, in their words -- "an unaccountable babe in the woods."
  
  Needham often overlooked China's humanitarian and political outrages. For these lapses, Needham was banned from America from 1954-78 for falsifying a report that America had employed biological weapons.

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