Introduction (2)
Three years later the laboratories in which I worked received several Chinese scientists, some intending to do research leading to the doctorate. We became great friends, and this had two effects upon me: first, I found that the better I got to know them the more exactly like my own their minds were, which raised in acute form the question of why modern science had begun only in Europe. Second, I learnt the Chinese language: wholesale replica designer handbags and I did so as a labor of love, which is quite a different thing from going through the mill of the oriental studies tripods. By the time that one of them, now long my chief collaborator, lu gwei dien, left in 1940, we had decided that “something absolutely must be done: about the history of science, technology and medicine in traditional Chinese culture.
Then in 1942 I was asked to go to china, as an envoy from the royal society, and this led to my staying there “for the duration” of the second world war as scientific counselor at the British embassy in Chungking. Since the post involved a great deal of traveling, I had ample opportunities for learning about what had happened in chines history; wherever I went there was usually someone, a medical doctor, a mathematician or an engineer, who was deeply interest in how the subject had developed in his own culture, wholesale designer handbags and was able to tell me what to read, what books to buy if possible, and so on. Thus I gained a remarkable orientation, which perhaps could hardly have been achieved in any other way. After the war was over I put in two years helping to build up unesco by organizing the division of natural sciences.
When I returned to Cambridge in 1948 the project of science and civilization in china began in earnest, with the help of my first collaborator wang ching ning. Although I was still sir William Dunn reader in biochemistry, and therefore had a good many lectures to give to the advanced students, we made good progress, and the first volume of the series came out in 1954. Looking back at it now, if I feel that in a task of this sort it is very important not to know too much, but yet to be in possession of a boundless enthusiasm for the Chinese people and their achievements over the ages. Now some fifteen volumes have been published, wholesale coach handbags and the whole set is expected to consist of at least twenty five, so we have come a long way since we started.
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