Simon Winchester and The Man Who Loved China

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Partner:: Tattered Cover
Location:: Tattered Cover Book Store
Denver, CO
Event Date:: 05.15.08
Speaker:: Simon Winchester
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Summary: Simon Winchester, the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa, will discuss and sign his new book The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom.

In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Winchester brings to life the extraordinary story of Joseph Needham, the brilliant Cambridge scientist who unlocked the most closely held secrets of China, long the world's most technologically advanced country - Tattered Cover Book Store

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Simon Winchester

Simon Winchester studied geology at Oxford and has written for Conde Nast Traveler, Smithsonian, and National Geographic. Winchester was named an honorary fellow at St. Catherine's College, Oxford in October, 2009 and received an honorary degree from Dalhousie University in October 2010

He is the author of A Crack in the Edge of the World, Krakatoa, The Map That Changed the World, The Professor and the Madman, The Fracture Zone, Outposts, Korea, among many other titles. He lives in Massachusetts and in the Western Isles of Scotland.

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01 hr 07 min 06 sec

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01.: Tattered Cover Introduction

01 min 36 sec

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02.: Winchestor Opening: History of the Three Gorges

03 min 11 sec

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03.: Discovering Joseph Needham

04 min 18 sec

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04.: Needham's Childhood

03 min 44 sec

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05.: Needham's Education

03 min 09 sec

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06.: Needham's Eccentricities

03 min 47 sec

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07.: Love for Women

02 min 10 sec

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08.: Lu Gwei-Djen

05 min 49 sec

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09.: Global View of China

02 min 12 sec

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10.: Diplomacy to China

03 min 09 sec

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11.: The Needham Question

03 min 22 sec

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12.: Following in His Footsteps

03 min 35 sec

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13.: Needham's Legacy

01 min 42 sec

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14.: Controversy with America

04 min 08 sec

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15.: Needham's Second Wife

01 min 22 sec

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16.: The New Center of the World

08 min 34 sec

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17.: Q & A

00 min 06 sec

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18.: Q1: Did Gordon Move Back to Shanghai?

00 min 25 sec

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19.: Q2: Spiritual Work

01 min 42 sec

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20.: Q3: Teaching at Cambridge

01 min 18 sec

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21.: Q4: Western vs. Eastern Science

02 min 42 sec

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22.: Q5: Taiwan Solution

00 min 58 sec

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23.: Q6: Earthquake in Dujiangyan

03 min 16 sec

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24.: Q7: Atlantic: The Biography

00 min 34 sec

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Simon Winchester on the Eccentricities of Joseph Needham

04 min 16 sec

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Simon Winchester on the Needham Question

03 min 34 sec

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Simon Winchester on China as the New Center of the World

08 min 59 sec

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