Unraveling World's First Publication: The Diamond Sutra
World Monuments Fund - Asia Society
Simon Winchester, best-selling author, journalist, and broadcaster, has written 21 books, including the best-sellersThe Professor and the Madman, an account of the men behind the Oxford English Dictionary, and The Map that Changed the World, about the nineteenth-century geologist William Smith. Known as a masterful and riveting storyteller, his most recent book is The New York Times best-seller The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom, the remarkable story of Joseph Needham, whose work in China unveils the epic story of that fascinating country.
