List of illustrations; List of tables; Contents of the subsequent volumes of 'Science and Civilisation in China'; 1. Preface; 2. Plan of the work; 3. Bibliographical notes; 4. Geographical introduction; 5. Historical introduction: I. The pre-imperial phase; 6. Historical introduction: II. The empire of all under heaven; 7. Conditions of travel of scientific ideas and techniques between China and Europe; Bibliographies; General index.
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Jonathan Spence, New York Review of Books
"Perhaps the greatest single act of historical synthesis and
intercultural communication ever attempted by one man."
Laurence Picken, Cambridge University
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