Biographies & Memoirs

SUGGESTED FURTHER READING

Beaton, Cecil. Far East. London: Batsford, 1945.

Bergsten, C. Fred, et al. China: The Balance Sheet: What the World Needs to Know Now about the Emerging Superpower. Center for Strategic and International Studies and Institute for International Economics. New York: PublicAffairs, 2006.

Brady, Anne-Marie. Friend of China: The Myth of Rewi Alley. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.

———. Making the Foreign Serve China: Managing Foreigners in the People’s Republic. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003.

Brooke, Christopher N. L. A History of the University of Cambridge, Vol. 4, 1870–1990. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Broomhall, A. J. Strong Tower. London: China Inland Mission, 1947.

Brunero, Donna. Britain’s Imperial Cornerstone in China: The Chinese Maritime Customs Service, 1854–1949. London: Routledge, 2006.

Bukharin, N. I., et al. Science at the Crossroads: Papers from the Second International Congress of the History of Science and Technology 1931. Foreword, Joseph Needham. London: Frank Cass, 1971.

The Caian: The Annual Record of the Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, 1 October 2003–30 September 2004. Cambridge: Gonville and Caius College, 2004.

Chambers, James. The Devil’s Horsemen: The Mongol Invasion of Europe. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1979.

Ch’ang Chiang Pilot, 3rd ed. London: Royal Navy Hydrographic Department, 1954.

Chang, Gordon G. Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes On the World. New York: Random House, 2006.

Chang, Iris. Thread of the Silkworm. New York: Basic Books, 1995.

———. The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II. New York: Basic Books, 1997.

Chang, Jung. Qian Zhongshu: Fortress Besieged. London: Penguin, 1979.

Chang, Jung, and Jon Halliday. Mao: The Unknown Story. New York: Knopf, 2005.

Chang, Raymond, and Margaret Scrogin Chang. Speaking of Chinese: A Cultural History of the Chinese Language. New York: Norton, 1978.

Chen, Guidi, and Wu Chuntao. Will the Boat Sink the Water? The Life of China’s Peasants. New York: PublicAffairs, 2006.

Cheng, Pei-kai, et al. The Search for Modern China: A Documentary Collection. New York: Norton, 1999.

Chow, Tse-tung. The May Fourth Movement; Intellectual Revolution in Modern China. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1960.

Clegg, Arthur. Aid China 1937–1949: A Memoir of a Forgotten Campaign. Beijing: New World, 1989.

Collis, Maurice. Foreign Mud: An Account of the Opium War. London: Faber and Faber, 1946.

———. The Great Within. Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries, 1970.

Colquhoun, Archibald R. China in Transformation. New York: Harper, 1898.

Cronin, Vincent. The Wise Man from the West. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1955.

Crow, Carl. Handbook for China. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1984.

Cullen, Christopher. The Dragon’s Ascent: The Civilisation the World Forgot. Hong Kong: PCCW IMS, 2001.

Dalley, Jan. The Black Hole: Money, Myth, and Empire. London: Penguin, 2006.

Dawson, Raymond. The History of Human Society: Imperial China, ed. J. H. Plumb. London: Hutchison, 1972.

Dyer Ball, J. Things Chinese. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1982.

Elcoat, Geoffrey. A Brief History of the Vicars of Thaxted. Thaxted, UK: Elcoat, 1999.

Elvin, Mark. The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004.

Endicott, Stephen, and Edward Hagerman. The United States and Biological Warfare: Secrets from the Early Cold War and Korea. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998.

Epstein, Israel. From Opium War to Liberation. Peking: New World, 1956.

Fairbank, John K., and Denis Twitchett, eds. The Cambridge History of China, 15 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986–.

Fei, Hsiao-tung. China’s Gentry: Essays on Rural-Urban Relations, ed. Margaret Park Redfield. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1953.

Feifer, George. Breaking Open Japan: Commodore Perry, Lord Abe, and American Imperialism in 1853. New York: Smithsonian Books and HarperCollins, 2006.

Fenby, Jonathan. Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the China He Lost. London: Free Press, 2003.

Feuerwerker, Albert. China’s Early Industrialization: Sheng Hsuan-huai (1844–1916) and Mandarin Enterprise. New York: Atheneum, 1970 (1958).

Fleming, Peter. The Siege at Peking. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1959.

Friedel, Robert. A Culture of Improvement: Technology and the Western Millennium. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007.

Garrett, Martin. Cambridge: A Cultural and Literary History. Oxford: Signal, 2004.

Girardot, Norman J. The Victorian Translation of China: James Legge’s Oriental Pilgrimage. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

Goldsmith, Maurice. Joseph Needham: Twentieth-Century Renaissance Man. Paris: UNESCO, 1995.

Goullart, Peter. Princes of the Black Bone: Life in the Tibetan Borderland. London: John Murray, 1959.

Gribbin, John. History of Western Science, 1543–2001. London: Folio Society, 2006.

Guest, Captain Freddie. Escape from the Bloodied Sun. London: Jarrolds, 1956.

Habib, S. Irfan, and Dhruv Raina. Situating the History of Science: Dialogues with Joseph Needham. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Hahn, Emily. China to Me. Boston, MA: Beacon, 1944.

Han, Suyin. Destination Chungking. London: Mayflower, 1969.

Harman, Peter, and Simon Mitton, eds. Cambridge Scientific Minds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Herzog, Maurice. Annapurna: Conquest of the First 8000-Metre Peak. London: Jonathan Cape and Book Society, 1952.

Hibbard, Peter. The Bund: Shanghai. Hong Kong: Odyssey Books and Guides, 2007.

Hinton, William. Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966.

Ho, Peng Yoke. Reminiscence of a Roving Scholar: Science, Humanities, and Joseph Needham. Singapore: World Scientific, 2005.

Hogg, George. I See a New China. Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 1944.

“Holorenshaw, Henry” (pen name for Joseph Needham). The Levellers and the English Revolution. Foreword, Joseph Needham. London: Victor Gollancz, 1939.

Hook, Brian, ed. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.

Hsiung, James C., and Steven I. Levine, eds. China’s Bitter Victory: The War with Japan 1937–1945. Armonk, NY: Sharpe, 1992.

Huang, Ray. 1587: A Year of No Significance—The Ming Dynasty in Decline. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1981.

———. China: A Macro History. Armonk, NY: Sharpe, 1997.

Ingram, Jay. The Velocity of Honey: And More Science of Everyday Life. New York: Thunder’s Mouth, 2003.

Israel, John. Student Nationalism in China, 1927–1937. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1966.

———. Lianda: A Chinese University in War and Revolution. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998.

Jinshi, Fan. Dunhuang Grottoes. Beijing: China Travel and Tourism Press, 2004.

Johnson, Gordon. University Politics: F. M. Cornford’s Cambridge and His Advice to the Young Academic Politician. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Kahn, E. J., Jr. The China Hands: America’s Foreign Service Officers and What Befell Them. New York: Viking, 1975.

Keynes, Margaret. A House by the River: Newnham Grange to Darwin College. Cambridge: privately printed, 1984.

Kynge, James. China Shakes the World: A Titan’s Rise and Troubled Future—and the Challenge for America. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2006.

Landes, David. The Wealth and Poverty of Nations. London: Abacus, 1998.

Lee, Sherman E. A History of Far Eastern Art, 5th ed. New York: Abrams, 1994.

Legge, James. The Chinese Classics, vol. 1. Hong Kong: Lane, Crawford, 1861.

Levathes, Louise. When China Ruled the Seas: The Treasure Fleet of the Dragon Throne, 1405–1433. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Li, Guohao, et al. Explorations in the History of Science and Technology in China: Compiled in Honour of the Eightieth Birthday of Dr. Joseph Needham. Shanghai: Shanghai Chinese Classics, 1982.

Lifton, Robert Jay. Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of Brainwashing in China. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989.

Lin, Yutang. Moment in Peking: A Novel of Contemporary Chinese Life. London: William Heinemann, 1940.

Lindqvist, Cecilia. China: Empire of Living Symbols. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1989.

Low, Morris F., ed. “Beyond Joseph Needham: Science, Technology, and Medicine in East and Southeast Asia.” Osiris, vol. 13. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1998.

Lu, Gwei-djen, and Joseph Needham. Celestial Lancets: A History and Rationale of Acupuncture and Moxa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980.

Lyons, Thomas P. China Maritime Customs and China’s Trade Statistics 1859–1948. Trumansburg, NY: Willow Creek, 2003.

Macartney, Lord [George]. An Embassy to China: Being the Journal Kept by Lord Macartney during His Embassy to the Emperor Ch’ien-lung 1793–1794, ed. J. L. Cranmer-Byng. London: Folio Society, 2004 (1962).

Macfarquhar, Roderick, and Michael Schoenhals. Mao’s Last Revolution. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006.

Maclure, Jan. Escape to Chungking. London: Oxford University Press, 1942.

Mateer, Rev. C. W. A Course of Mandarin Lessons, Based on Idiom. Shanghai: Presbyterian Mission Press, 1922.

Mayor, Adrienne. Greek Fire, Poison Arrows, and Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World. Woodstock, NY: Overlook, 2003.

McAleavy, Henry. The Modern History of China. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1967.

McCune, Shannon. The Ryukyu Islands. Newton Abbot: David and Charles, 1975.

Mendelssohn, Kurt. In China Now. London: Paul Hamlyn, 1969.

Miyazaki, Ichisada. China’s Examination Hell: The Civil Service Examinations of Imperial China. New York: Weatherhill, 1976.

Mukherjee, Sushil Kumar, and Amitabha Ghosh, eds. The Life and Works of Joseph Needham. Calcutta: Asiatic Society, 1997.

Needham, Joseph. Time: The Refreshing River (Essays and Addresses, 1932–1942). London: George Allen and Unwin, 1943.

———. Science and Civilisation in China. 24 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1954–2004.

———. The Grand Titration: Science and Society in East and West. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1969.

———. Within the Four Seas: The Dialogue of East and West. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1969.

Needham, Joseph, and Dorothy Needham, eds. Science Outpost: Papers of the Sino-British Science Co-Operation Office (British Council Scientific Office in China) 1942–1946. London: Pilot, 1948.

Owen, Bernie, and Raynor Shaw. Hong Kong Landscapes: Along the MacLehose Trail. Hong Kong: Geotrails Society, 2001.

Pan, Lynn. China’s Sorrow: Journeys around the Yellow River. London: Century, 1985.

Payne, Robert. Chinese Diaries 1941–1946. New York: Weybright and Talley, 1945.

———. Chungking Diary. London: William Heinemann, 1945.

Pomfret, John. Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of a New China. New York: Holt, 2006.

Powell, Timothy E., and Peter Harper, eds. Catalogues and Supplementary Catalogues of the Papers and Correspondence of Joseph Needham CH FRS (1900–1995). Bath: National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists, University of Bath, 1999.

Preston, Diana. The Boxer Rebellion: The Dramatic Story of China’s War on Foreigners That Shook the World in the Summer of 1900. New York: Walker, 2000.

Price, Ruth. The Lives of Agnes Smedley. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Raverat, Gwen. Period Piece: The Cambridge Childhood of Darwin’s Granddaughter. London: Faber and Faber, 1952.

Redding, Gordon. The Spirit of Chinese Capitalism. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1990.

Ronan, Colin A. The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China: An Abridgement of Joseph Needham’s Original Text. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.

The Seige of the Peking Embassy, 1900: Sir Claude MacDonald’s Report on the Boxer Rebellion. Uncovered Editions series. Tim Coates, series ed. London: Stationery Office, 2000.

Serres, Michael, ed. A History of Scientific Thought. Oxford: Blackwell, 1995.

Shaw, Raynor. Three Gorges of the Yangtze River: Chongqing to Wuhan. Hong Kong: Odyssey Books and Guides, 2007.

Simon, W. How to Study and Write Chinese Characters. London: Percy Lund, Humphries, 1959.

Snow, Edgar. Red Star over China. New York: Random House, 1938.

———. The Other Side of the River: Red China Today. London: Victor Gollancz, 1963.

Spalding, Frances. Gwen Raverat: Friends, Family, and Affections. London: Pimlico, 2004.

Spence, Jonathan D. To Change China. New York: Penguin, 1969.

———. The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution, 1895–1980. London: Faber and Faber, 1981.

———. The Search for Modern China. London: Hutchinson, 1990.

———. The Chan’s Great Continent: China in Western Minds. New York: Norton, 1998.

———. Treason by the Book. New York: Viking, 2001.

Stilwell, Joseph W. The Stilwell Papers, ed. Theodore H. White. New York: William Sloane, 1948.

Sun, Shuyun. The Long March: The True History of China’s Founding Myth. New York: Doubleday, 2006.

Temple, Robert. The Genius of China: 3,000 Years of Science, Discovery, and Invention. Introduction, Joseph Needham. London: André Deutsch, 2007 (1986).

Tennien, Mark. Chungking Listening Post. New York: Creative Age, 1945.

Teresi, Dick. Lost Discoveries: The Ancient Roots of Modern Science, from the Babylonians to the Maya. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2002.

Thai, Vinh. Ancestral Voices. London: Collins, 1956.

Tokayer, Marvin, and Mary Swartz. The Fugu Plan: The Untold Story of the Japanese and the Jews during World War II. New York: Paddington, 1979.

Tuchman, Barbara W. Sand against the Wind: Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–1945. London: Macmillan, 1971.

Tyson Li, Laura. Madame Chiang Kai-shek: China’s Eternal First Lady. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006.

Vincent, Irene Vongehr. The Sacred Oasis: Caves of the Thousand Buddahs Tun Huang. London: Faber and Faber, 1953.

Waley, Arthur. Three Ways of Thought in Ancient China. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1982 (1939).

———. The Opium War through Chinese Eyes. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1958.

Waley-Cohen, Joanna. The Sextants of Beijing: Global Currents in Chinese History. New York: Norton, 1999.

Walker, Annabel. Aurel Stein: Pioneer of the Silk Road. London: John Murray, 1995.

Watson, Peter. A Terrible Beauty: The People and Ideas That Shaped the Modern Mind. London: Phoenix, 2001.

Weber, Max. The Religion of China: Confucianism and Taoism. New York: Free Press, 1951.

Webster, Donovan. The Burma Road: The Epic Story of the China-Burma-India Theater in World War II. New York: HarperCollins, 2003.

Wei, Peh-T’i, Betty. Shanghai: Crucible of Modern China. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Wenley, A.G., and John A. Pope. China: Smithsonian Institution War Background Studies, no. 20. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1944.

Werskey, Gary. The Visible College: The Collective Biography of British Scientific Socialists of the 1930s. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978.

White, Theodore H., and Annalee Jacoby. Thunder Out of China. New York: William Sloane, 1946.

Whitfield, Roderick, et al. Cave Temples of Dunhuang: Art and History on the Silk Road. London: British Library, 2000.

Whitfield, Susan. The Silk Road: Trade, Travel, War, and Faith. London: British Library, 2004.

Whitfield, Susan, and Ursula Sims-Williams, eds. The Silk Road: Trade, Travel, War, and Faith. Chicago, IL: Serindia, 2004.

Wieger, Dr. L., S.J. Chinese Characters: Their Origin, Etymology, History, Classification, and Signification—A Thorough Study from Chinese Documents. Ho-kien-fu: Catholic Mission Press, 1927.

Wilkinson, Endymion. Chinese History: A Manual. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000.

Wilson, Dick. The Long March 1935: The Epic of Chinese Communism’s Survival. New York: Viking, 1971.

———. When Tigers Fight: The Story of the Sino-Japanese War, 1937–1945. New York: Penguin, 1982.

Wood, Frances. A Companion to China. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988.

———. No Dogs and Not Many Chinese: Treaty Port Life in China 1843–1943. London: John Murray, 1998.

———. The Silk Road: Two Thousand Years in the Heart of Asia. London: British Library, 2003.

Wright, Arthur F. Buddhism in Chinese History. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1959.

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