Science and Civilisation in China, Part 2, Agriculture

by Joseph Needham

Book Overview

This second part of the sixth volume of Joseph Needham's great enterprise is the first to be written by a collaborator. Francesca Bray, working closely with Dr Needham, has produced the most comprehensive study of Chinese agriculture to be published in the West. From a huge mass of source material, often confusing and obscure, and from first-hand study in China, she brings order and illumination to a crucial area of Chinese technological development...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521250765
• ISBN13: 9780521250764
• Release Date: May 1984
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 768 Pages
• Weight: 4.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 7.5" x 9.9"