Explorations in the history of science and technology in China. A special number of the collections of essays on Chinese literature and history.

by Guohao Li, Zhang Mengwen, Cao Tianqin

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First edition

Shanghai: Chinese Classics Publishing House, 1982. First edition, limited to 3,500 copies, large 8vo, pp. 6 , viii, 4 , 835, 1 ; frontispiece portrait and text illustrations; text in English, Chinese, and Japanese with English summaries for non-English chapters; full brown cloth gilt; lower hinge split, corners bumped, very good in a rubbed dust jacket. This volume is a festschrift for eightieth birthday of Dr. Joseph Needham, best known for his work Science

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