

The Man Who Loved China
Author: Simon Winchester
Narrator: Simon Winchester
Unabridged: 9 hr 13 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 05/06/2008
Author: Simon Winchester
Narrator: Simon Winchester
Unabridged: 9 hr 13 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 05/06/2008
Simon Winchester is the acclaimed author of many books, including The Professor and the Madman, The Men Who United the States, The Map That Changed the World, The Man Who Loved China, A Crack in the Edge of the World, and Krakatoa, all of which were New York Times bestsellers and appeared on numerous best and notable lists. In 2006, Winchester was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Her Majesty the Queen. He resides in western Massachusetts.
He decided initially to make a great historical list, a list of every mechanical invention and abstract idea—the building blocks of modern world civilization—that had been first conceived and made in China. If he could managed to establish a flawless catalog of just what the Chinese had created......more
A biography of a man who devoted his life to things Chinese, Joseph Needham. One of the ancients said a full life, like a full day, is long enough. When Needham died in his early 90s, two days after he came to work his usual full day in the library, he went to a long-deserved rest. Needham (1900-19......more
I cannot recall when I last felt as passionate about a book as I do with this spellbinding work by Simon Winchester. I am also passionate about the amazing life of Joseph Needham, an Englishman who was born at the end of the Victorian era in 1900, who rose to such splendid heights in academia, fell......more
In mulling over the Kindle page for The Professor and the Madman, Winchester's more famous book, my eye was caught by the entry for this one. I'd first encountered Needham's work on a library shelf in my youth, when it was many fewer volumes, 3 or 6 maybe -- I remember the covers were black, at abou......more
Great background reading for anyone contemplating the epic task of taking on the fifteen (and more) volumes of Science and Civilisation in China -- one the greatest compendiums of knowledge, a supreme feat of imagination and will power, and one of the most lasting bridges built between the east and......more