Janus: Papers of Joseph Needham as a historian of Chinese science, technology and medicine

Needham/NRI2/SCC4/2 contains:
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35	Letter from David Hawkes of Oxford, raising points about Chinese language relating to the volume
36	Letter from Bill Dobson of Toronto, Canada raising some points about Chinese language relating to the volume
37	Letters from Angus Graham of the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, providing Joseph Needham with references and discussing a possible review
38	Letter of praise from Agnes Auban [?] of Cambridge
39	Letter from ? of 'Science and Society', New York City, U.S.A. about Dirk Struik's praise for the volume
40	Letter from Coching Chu [??? / Chu K'o-chen /Zhu Kezhen] of Academia Sinica, advising of the appearance of review articles in Chinese publications and asking for confirmation of the receipt of Wang Ling's salary
41	Letter of admiration from Seung-bog Cho in Uppsala, Sweden and Joseph Needham's reply
42	Correspondence with Mohit Sen of 'New Age' magazine, New Dehli, India, about two articles by D. P. Chattopadhyaya on Taoism and Tantrism
43	Letter from Leslie G. Kilbourn of the Department of Physiology, University of Hong Kong, about an incorrect reference to Bernard Shaw in the volume
44	Letter of praise from Sollie H. Posinsky of New York City, U.S.A.
45	Letter from Willard P. Norberg of San Francisco, U.S.A. about the translation of the 'section headings' of the 'Han Code'
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Papers of Joseph Needham as a historian of Chinese science, technology and medicine

Title	Documents relating to an 'ungenerous' review by D. C. Lau published in 'Nature', 1 December 1956
Reference	SCC4/2/30
Creator	Needham, Joseph; Picken, Laurence; Eccleshare, C. F.
Covering Dates	1 Dec. 1956–17 Jan. 1957
Extent and Medium	25 sheets; Paper

Content and context

The documents comprise a copy of the review; Joseph Needham's manuscript and typewritten drafts of a response beginning 'Few reviews less illuminating can ever have appeared..'; copy of Joseph Needham's letters to Lau and to the editors of 'Nature'; typescript copy of a response prepared by Laurence Picken of Jesus College, Cambridge; letter to Picken from the editors of 'Nature' stating that 'third parties cannot intervene' and that his response could not be published; letter from Picken to Joseph Needham beginning 'Alas! It availed not.'; correspondence between Joseph Needham and C.F. Eccleshare of Cambridge University Press about the review and responses.

Index Terms

Picken, Laurence Ernest Rowland (1909-2007) biologist, sinologist and musicologist

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