Joseph Needham : Chowchih

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Joseph Needham

<p style='text-align: justify;'>A photograph and correspondence relating to the visit in October 1945 by Dr. Joseph Needham and other members of the Sino-British Science Co-operation Office (SBSCO) (Zhong ying ke xue he zuo guan 中英科學合作館) to Chouchih County (Zhouzhi Xian 盩厔縣) in Shaanxi Province (陝西縣), where he met with County Magistrate Zuo Yutao (Tso Yü Tao 左玉韜) and Bishop (Prefect) Joseph Gao (Joannes Kao / Gao Zhengyi 高正一), Prefect Emeritus of the Prefecture Apostolic of Chowchih, among others. Dr. Needham records the visit, from October 10th-13th 1945, in his diary of his tour in North China (<a href='/view/MS-NRI-00002-00005-00012-00003'> (NRI2/5/12/3)</a>).</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Further information and resources are available about Needham's time in China from 1943-1946 as Director of the Sino-British Science Cooperation Office <a target='_blank' class='externalLink' href='http://www.nri.cam.ac.uk/JN_wartime.htm'>here</a>.</p>