The Man Who Loved China

By Simon Winchester

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, History

The Man Who Loved China is a 2008 biography by Simon Winchester of Joseph Needham, the Cambridge biochemist who became the West's leading historian of Chinese science. It follows Needham's wartime travels across China and his lifelong project Science and Civilisation in China, which asked why China, long the world leader in invention, fell behind Europe.

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• Fareed Zakaria: “I'm off to China, and one of the things I will re-read on the plane is Simon Winchester's fascinating book "The Man Who Loved China."”