The Rise and Fall of the EAST: MIT's Yasheng Huang on his new book
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The Needham Question and Chinese Science & Technology
This chapter delves into the famous Needham question and discusses the speaker's interest in the history of science and technology in China. It explores their dissatisfaction with previous explanations for China's decline as a technological power and highlights their efforts to digitize entries recorded by Needham and Chinese historians of science, resulting in a database of over 10,000 entries.
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