The Man Who Loved China (38 page)

Powell, Timothy E., and Peter Harper, eds.
Catalogues and Supplementary Catalogues of the Papers and Correspondence of Joseph Needham CH FRS (1900–1995)
. Bath: National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists, University of Bath, 1999.

Preston, Diana.
The Boxer Rebellion: The Dramatic Story of China's War on Foreigners That Shook the World in the Summer of 1900
. New York: Walker, 2000.

Price, Ruth.
The Lives of Agnes Smedley
. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Raverat, Gwen.
Period Piece: The Cambridge Childhood of Darwin's Granddaughter
. London: Faber and Faber, 1952.

Redding, Gordon.
The Spirit of Chinese Capitalism
. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1990.

Ronan, Colin A.
The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China: An Abridgement of Joseph Needham's Original Text
. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.

The Seige of the Peking Embassy, 1900: Sir Claude MacDonald's Report on the Boxer Rebellion
. Uncovered Editions series. Tim Coates, series ed. London: Stationery Office, 2000.

Serres, Michael, ed.
A History of Scientific Thought
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Shaw, Raynor.
Three Gorges of the Yangtze River: Chongqing to Wuhan
. Hong Kong: Odyssey Books and Guides, 2007.

Simon, W.
How to Study and Write Chinese Characters
. London: Percy Lund, Humphries, 1959.

Snow, Edgar.
Red Star over China
. New York: Random House, 1938.

———.
The Other Side of the River: Red China Today
. London: Victor Gollancz, 1963.

Spalding, Frances.
Gwen Raverat: Friends, Family, and Affections
. London: Pimlico, 2004.

Spence, Jonathan D.
To Change China
. New York: Penguin, 1969.

———.
The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution, 1895–1980
. London: Faber and Faber, 1981.

———.
The Search for Modern China
. London: Hutchinson, 1990.

———.
The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds
. New York: Norton, 1998.

———.
Treason by the Book
. New York: Viking, 2001.

Stilwell, Joseph W.
The Stilwell Papers
, ed. Theodore H. White. New York: William Sloane, 1948.

Sun, Shuyun.
The Long March: The True History of China's Founding Myth
. New York: Doubleday, 2006.

Temple, Robert.
The Genius of China: 3,000 Years of Science, Discovery, and Invention
. Introduction, Joseph Needham. London: André Deutsch, 2007 (1986).

Tennien, Mark.
Chungking Listening Post
. New York: Creative Age, 1945.

Teresi, Dick.
Lost Discoveries: The Ancient Roots of Modern Science, from the Babylonians to the Maya
. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2002.

Thai, Vinh.
Ancestral Voices
. London: Collins, 1956.

Tokayer, Marvin, and Mary Swartz.
The Fugu Plan: The Untold Story of the Japanese and the Jews during World War II
. New York: Paddington, 1979.

Tuchman, Barbara W.
Sand against the Wind: Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–1945
. London: Macmillan, 1971.

Tyson Li, Laura.
Madame Chiang Kai-shek: China's Eternal First Lady
. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006.

Vincent, Irene Vongehr.
The Sacred Oasis: Caves of the Thousand Buddahs Tun Huang
. London: Faber and Faber, 1953.

Waley, Arthur.
Three Ways of Thought in Ancient China
. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1982 (1939).

———.
The Opium War through Chinese Eyes
. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1958.

Waley-Cohen, Joanna.
The Sextants of Beijing: Global Currents in Chinese History
. New York: Norton, 1999.

Walker, Annabel.
Aurel Stein: Pioneer of the Silk Road
. London: John Murray, 1995.

Watson, Peter.
A Terrible Beauty: The People and Ideas That Shaped the Modern Mind
. London: Phoenix, 2001.

Weber, Max.
The Religion of China: Confucianism and Taoism
. New York: Free Press, 1951.

Webster, Donovan.
The Burma Road: The Epic Story of the China-Burma-India Theater in World War II
. New York: HarperCollins, 2003.

Wei, Peh-T'i, Betty.
Shanghai: Crucible of Modern China
. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Wenley, A.G., and John A. Pope.
China: Smithsonian Institution War Background Studies
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Werskey, Gary.
The Visible College: The Collective Biography of British Scientific Socialists of the 1930s
. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978.

White, Theodore H., and Annalee Jacoby.
Thunder Out of China
. New York: William Sloane, 1946.

Whitfield, Roderick, et al.
Cave Temples of Dunhuang: Art and History on the Silk Road
. London: British Library, 2000.

Whitfield, Susan.
The Silk Road: Trade, Travel, War, and Faith
. London: British Library, 2004.

Whitfield, Susan, and Ursula Sims-Williams, eds.
The Silk Road: Trade, Travel, War, and Faith
. Chicago, IL: Serindia, 2004.

Wieger, Dr. L., S.J.
Chinese Characters: Their Origin, Etymology, History, Classification, and Signification—A Thorough Study from Chinese Documents
. Ho-kien-fu: Catholic Mission Press, 1927.

Wilkinson, Endymion.
Chinese History: A Manual
. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000.

Wilson, Dick.
The Long March 1935: The Epic of Chinese Communism's Survival
. New York: Viking, 1971.

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When Tigers Fight: The Story of the Sino-Japanese War, 1937–1945
. New York: Penguin, 1982.

Wood, Frances.
A Companion to China
. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988.

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No Dogs and Not Many Chinese: Treaty Port Life in China 1843–1943
. London: John Murray, 1998.

———.
The Silk Road: Two Thousand Years in the Heart of Asia
. London: British Library, 2003.

Wright, Arthur F.
Buddhism in Chinese History
. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1959.

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abacus, 68, 70

Academia Sinica, 91, 93, 174, 175

Alley, Rewi, 111–16, 124, 125, 147, 264

Baillie School and, 116, 117, 127n.27

on his precarious position in China, 114

homosexuality of, 112, 117n.23

photo,
115

work with Chinese guerrilla industries, 112–15, 211

American Historical Review,
224

Aylward, Gladys, 118n.24, 120n.25

Anderson, Hugh, 18

Anyang tombs, 91–92

aerodynamics and flying, Chinese, 1

Attlee, Clement, 32

Auden, W. H., 112

awards and honors, Joseph Needham's, 28–29, 197, 238–40, 250, 251

 

Bacon, Francis, 8

Baillie, Joseph, 115

Baillie Schools, 83, 115–17, 118n.24, 127n.27

Balazs, Étienne, 261

Balkh, fabled city of, 134

Bao Pu Zi,
1

Bao River, 110

Barnes, E. W., 13, 14

Bauer, Peter, 229

Beijing, China, pinyin term, 225n.47

Belden, Jack, 58

Bell, Vanessa, 230n.51

Beltz, Ed, 103, 125

Beria, Lavrenty, 213–14

Bernal, J. D., 32

Bessemer, Henry, 185

Bevan, Nye, 32

Biochemical Institute, Cambridge University, 20, 21, 35–36, 37

Biochemistry and Morphogenesis
(J. Needham), 50

biological agents, accusations of U.S. use of, in Korean War, 199–216

early Chinese use of biological agents and, 199

biological agents

Japanese use of biological agents, and, 101

Joseph Needham's role in investigating, 203–12, 220

U.S. research into, and ultimate decision to ban, 202, 203n.43

voles as disease vector, 200–202

Birds of South China, The
(Caldwell), 149

Bish, Stanley, 250, 251–52

Black Crow Sand Pass, 127

Bland-Sutton, John, 15–16

Blincoe, Alfred, 16, 17

bombs, biological agents in Chinese, 199

Book of Changes,
191

Book of the Mystery-Penetrating Master, The,
192

books and manuscripts

earliest Chinese book (Diamond Sutra), 101–2,
131,
138–39

Joseph Needham's collection of Chinese, 151, 174–177, 194–95, 242–44, 248–49

Boston, Richard, 224

botany, Chinese, 61, 65–66, 155–56

Bray, Francesca, 233

work on
Science and Civilisation in China,
241–42, 244

bridges, Chinese, 11, 121–22, 185–86

British Academy, Joseph Needham elected to, 238

Britain-China Friendship Association, 226

British Council, 53

British Foreign Office, 53, 209

British Museum, Aurel Stein's collecting expedition for, 135–40

British Peace Society, 227

Brook, Charles, 18

Brooke, Christopher, 180

Bryan, Derek, marriage to Liao Hongying, and their advocacy for China, 142–43, 226

Buck, Pearl, 38

Buddhism and Buddhists in China, 130–32

Burbidge, Peter, 196

Burma Road, 79

 

Caius College, Cambridge University, 18, 32, 173–74, 224

College Council, 229

Joseph Needham elected president of fellows of (1959), 229–31

Joseph Needham's oil portrait at,
241

Joseph Needham's rooms at, 38, 168–70

Joseph Needham's status at, 124, 168–73, 220–24, 228–32

tradition of ancient gates used by individuals from, 242–43

Caldwell, John, 149

calipers, Chinese, 187
Cambridge Review,
217

Cambridge University.
See also
Caius College, Cambridge University

“Blue” award at, 73n.15

Joseph Needham enters, as student, 4, 17–28

Joseph Needham's return to, after diplomatic mission to China, 166–67

Joseph Needham's status at, 124, 168–73, 220–24, 228–32

students at, in 1968 era of social movements, 231

Cambridge University Press, publisher of
Science and Civilisation in China

decision to continue publishing, 242

expansion of
Science and Civilisation in China
volumes, 192–93

initial proposal for, 170,
171,
172, 173

monographs emerging from
Science and Civilisation in China,
192n.40

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, 227

Campbell, Malcolm, 22

camels, 127

Carnegie Institution, 212

Celestial Lancets: A History of Acupuncture,
192n.40

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), United States, 166, 212

ceramics, Chinese, 120

chain drive, Chinese, 185

Chambers, Frank, 17

Chang'an, China, 100n19, 128, 132, 161.
See also
Xi'an, China

Chang Jiang River.
See
Yangzi River

Chatley, Herbert, 196
Chemical Embryology
(J. Needham), 28, 180

Chengdu, Sichuan Province, Needham's visit to, 81–82

Chen Lun, 70

chess (game), Chinese
xiangqi,
187

Chiang Kai-shek (Nationalist Chinese leader), 40, 47, 73, 78, 95, 102, 115, 128, 141, 142, 198

Chi Chhoa-Ting, 196

Chidzey, Blanche, 26

Childers, Erskine, 19

Children of Huang Shi, The
(film), 118n.24

China.
See also
Nationalist government, China; People's Republic of China

British mission to academics in, 51–54

changes in, since Joseph Needham's first visit, 253–57

economy in World War II-era, 95–96

industry in World War II-era, 112–14

Japanese invasion and occupation of,
iv,
7, 46–48, 51,
63,
76, 77–79, 112, 143–46, 149, 151–55

Joseph Needham expedition to northwestern, 100–43

Joseph Needham expedition to southeastern, 143–55

Joseph Needham expedition to southwestern, 155–57

maps of,
iv, 62–63, 101

Needham Question regarding science and technology in, 37–38, 57, 157, 190, 222, 259–62

revolution of 1911, 7

scientific and technological achievements, 8–9 (
see also
inventions, Chinese)

scientific and technological future of, 262–65

states, kingdoms, and dynasties (
see
Appendix II)

unchanging aspects of, 257–62

western perceptions of, and prejudices about, 7–9, 222–24

China advocates

Derek Bryan and Liao Hongying as, 103, 105, 125

Joseph Needham as, 48–49, 50, 94–96, 225–28, 234–37

China Inland Mission, 110
China Monthly Review,
215

China National Aviation Corporation, 1, 141

China Travel Service, 106, 147
Chin Chuan So Chi
(Li Xinheng), 121–22

Chinese Academy of Sciences, 203

Chinese Industrial Cooperative (CIC), 113–14

Chinese language

calligraphy, 44–45, 265

Joseph Needham's study of, 39–45

Joseph Needham's typewriter and transliteration of, 178n.37

modern, 257

names and, 40–41

origin of phrase
gung ho,
113

pinyin for
Beijing,
225n.47

transliteration of, 42n.8

Chinese people

attitudes of, 258–59

bureaucracy and attitudes of, toward government, 87–88

ingenuity of, 86

modern, 258

opinions of, about Japanese, 76–77

scientists, 94, 203–4, 207, 214–15

“traits” of, 133

water and hydraulics in history of, 105–9

Chinese Turkestan (Xinjiang),

Joseph Needham expedition to, 100–43

Chinghua University Radio Research Institute, 98

Chongqing, China, 47

as World War II-era capital of China, 75–77

contemporary, 253–57

Japanese attacks on World War II-era, 4–5, 76–77

Joseph Needham's arrival in World War II-era, 1–6, 9–10, 71–75

Joseph Needham's description of, 80

rats in, 80n.17

Christians and Christianity in China, 110

Chun Qiu Fan Lu
(Dong Zhongshu), 168

Chungking, 2.
See also
Chongqing, China

Churchill, Winston, 54, 71, 97

Cicero affair, 48n.10

Cinnabar Mountains, 127

Clark-Kerr, Archibald, 112

Cold War International History Project, Carnegie Institution, 212

Columbia University, 211–12

Communist Party, British, 33

Communist Party and government, Chinese, 95, 99, 176n.35, 198, 222–23.
See also
Mao Zedong (Chinese Communist leader); People's Republic of China; Zhou Enlai (Chinese Communist leader)

Companionship of Honor awarded to Joseph Needham, 250

compass, Chinese magnetic, 97, 183–84, 186

Complete Books of the Four Imperial Repositories, The (Siku Quanshu
), 176n.36

Confucius and Confucianism, 128, 156, 191

Complete Collection of Illustrations and Writings of Ancient and Modern Times, The
(Chinese imperial encyclopedia), 176–77

Cook, Stanley, 221

Cornford, John, 33

Cornford-McLaurin Fund, 33, 34

Corps of Messengers, British, 71

Cort, J. H., 227

Crescent Moon Lake, 129

Crick, Francis, 240

Crook, David, 58

Crowther, J. G., 53, 54, 57, 164

Cullen, Christopher, 251

Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), 231, 234, 235

names given to children during, 40n.7

Czechoslovakia, “Prague Spring” in (1968), 231

 

Dadu River, 85, 186

Daily Worker
(Britain), 57

Daoism, 191, 192

Daquan River, 129

Darwinism, 13, 14

Deng Xiaoping (Chinese Communist leader), 237

Diamond Sutra, 101–2,
131,
138–39

Dictionary of National Biography
(DNB), 230n.51

Diebold, John, 248, 249

dinosaur fossil
Lufengosaurus,
156

DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), double helix model of, 240

Dong Zhongshu, 168

Driberg, Tom, 233

Dujiangyan irrigation project, 108, 109

Dunhuang oasis and caves, 101, 102, 105, 128–32, 134–39

 

East Asian History of Science trust, 243–44

Eden, Anthony, 56

Eggleston, Frederick, 87

elements, five Chinese, 168

Elers, Peter, 233

Ellis, Havelock, 32

Emblica officinalis,
155

encyclopedia, imperial Chinese, 176–77

English Gymnosophist Society, 22

Epidemic Prevention Bureau, Lanzhou, China, 122

erotic texts, Chinese Daoist, 192

explorations, Chinese seagoing, 186, 194

extraterritoriality as legal concept, 72n.14

 

Far Eastern Survey,
228

Far East War Council, 54

Fessel, Klaus, 196

Fire-Drake Manual, The
199

Fisher, Ronald, 179–80

fishing reel, Chinese, 186

Fitch, James, 196

Foot, Dingle, 32

foot-binding practice in China, 119–20

Forster, E. M. 32

Fort Detrick, Maryland, chemical warfare research center at, 203

Foster, Dorothy, 20

Foster (Snow), Helen, 112, 113

Fox, Munro, 221

Franklin, Rosalind, 240

Franklin, Sidney, 38

Freedom of Information Act, U.S., 212

French Indochina, 79, 156

fuels used on Joseph Needham's Chinese expeditions, 103n.20

Fuzhou, Fujian Province, China, Joseph Needham's expedition to, 143–55

danger of approaching Japanese troops, 143–46, 149, 151–55

incident at Xiang River bridge, Hengyang, 152–54

map,
144

 

Gang of Four, 235

Gao, Kimmie, 81

Gaselee, Stephen, 58

Gate of Sorrows, 128

Gauss, Clarence, 99

Ge Hong, 1

George IV, British king, 197

gimbals, Chinese, 186–87

Glukhov, KGB agent, 212, 213

Gobi Desert, 122, 126, 128, 263

Gollancz, Victor, 32, 49

Goes, Bento de, 264

Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University, 18, 169, 228, 242

Good Earth, The
(Buck), 38

Grand Canal, 184

Great Britain

Battle of the Tennis Court against Japanese, 155n.31

embassy in World War II-era Chongqing, 71–77

response of, to founding of People's Republic of China, 226n.49