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28 - China

from East and Southeast Asia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2020

By
Shellen Xiao Wu  and
Fa-ti Fan
Edited by
Hugh Richard Slotten ,
Ronald L. Numbers  and
David N. Livingstone
Hugh Richard Slotten
Affiliation:
University of Otago, New Zealand
Ronald L. Numbers
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin, Madison
David N. Livingstone
Affiliation:
Queen's University Belfast
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During World War II, the British biochemist Joseph Needham (1900–95) traveled to the wartime capital of the Chinese resistance in Chongqing, Sichuan Province, in the southwest of the country. In a village on the outskirts of the city, Needham toured the offices of the relocated Academia Sinica, the national academy of sciences and social sciences first established in 1928. The scientists had left behind their laboratories and equipment in the large coastal cities in exchange for bomb shelters in cliff-side caves and farmhouses in the countryside. Nevertheless, Needham was deeply impressed by the fortitude of Chinese scientists in harsh wartime conditions.

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The Cambridge History of Science , pp. 521 - 554
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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