Within the Four Seas

Within the Four Seas
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 229
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ISBN-10 : 9781136574696
ISBN-13 : 1136574697
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Book Synopsis Within the Four Seas by : Joseph Needham

Download or read book Within the Four Seas written by Joseph Needham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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