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Joseph Needham
Within the Four Seas [PDF ebook]
The Dialogue of East and West

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First published in 1969.
Contains some of Joseph Needham”s most significant essays, lectures and broadcasts on the history of Chinese science, technology and culture. Also included are some more personal thoughts stimulated by his own travels and experiences in China, including a number of poems.
The book discusses the valuable social and intellectual influences which have flowed to Europe from South as well as East Asia, and suggests that the events of the twentieth century were a natural development of Chinese history, not a deviation from it.

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Format PDF ● Pages 232 ● ISBN 9781136574696 ● Publisher Taylor and Francis ● Published 2013 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2832977 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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