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Winchester's biography was written with great affection, not only for Needham but also for the Chinese people. In the last chapter, Winchester wrote:
"Within this (Chinese) framework of changelessness there is also, entirely discernible, something else that resists change - something that can only be described as an attitude. It is a Chinese state of mind, and one which outsiders - and all who are non-Chinese are very much outsiders here - may occasionally find infuriating and insufferable, but which certainly exists, and at no great depth beneath the Chinese skin. It is an attitude, one might argue, that has been born of the very achievement which Joseph Needham attempted to catalog and describe in his series of books. It is an attitude of ineluctable and self-knowing Chinese superiority, and it results from the antiquity and the longevity of the Chinese people's endeavors."
Beside the fireplace in Needham's old college room are the characters 人去留影. Winchester believes that this will be Needham's memorial "for decades, maybe for centuries".
George Yeo
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