The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom by Simon Winchester (Author)

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The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom by Simon Winchester (Author)ISBN: 9780060884598 Publisher : HarperCollins, 1 May 2008 Hardcover, 316 pages A portrait of the mid twentieth century scientist and adventurer traces his British government mission to China, his love affair with visiting student Lu Gwei Djen, and his pivotal influence on the Western world's understanding of China's culture and history. 250,000 first printing.

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ISBN: 9781107083622

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Pearson Education Limited | 01 January 1995

Cornell University Press

[The book is] a superb effort by the authors

with accompanying illustrations to demonstrate its dramatic potential

about doing things as ends and not means (non-utilitarian

It encompasses an extensive range of spectroscopic and spectrometric techniques used for molecular analysis in the life sciences

the book focuses on the rampant plagiarism between lexicographers

the interstitial -- and takes many different forms in the work

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