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  • Harriet Klausner 12th Apr 2009

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    The Man Who Loved China
    Simon Winchester
    Harper, Apr 28 2009, $15.99
    ISBN: 9780060884611

    This is a fascinating biography of Cambridge University biochemist Joseph Needham. Although married to a scientific peer Dorothy, he fell in love with a student Lu Gwei-djen in the 1930s. She taught him her language and her love for her culture. Needham began exploring the country even as the war with Japan in the late 1930s and 1940s made it unsafe for anyone especially a British professor. Still he c ...