李约瑟以一个西方人,穷其毕生之力发掘了一个几乎不为人知的东方神秘世界,可谓旷世奇人。他以超乎常人的意志和精力写出一部卷帙浩繁的旷世奇书——《中国科学与文明》(简称SCC)。这一些早已世所周知。世人虽知而知之不多者,还有这位西方人同一位中国姑娘的旷世奇缘。奇缘之“奇”,不在儿女私情,却是李公之成为奇人,SCC之成为奇书不可或缺的动因之一。用约瑟自己的话说,她是这一番震古烁今事业的“荷尔蒙和 Needham, a Westerner, impoverished his lifelong effort to discover an almost unknown mysterious world of Eastern mystery. With extraordinary will and energy, he wrote a magnificent book of worldly wonders - “Science and Civilization of China” (SCC for short). Some of these have long been known in the world. Although the world knows and knows not much, there is the same Westerner with a Chinese girl’s uncanny. Romance of the “odd”, not children’s private love, but it became Li Kung’s amazing, SCC became an indispensable motivation for one of the odd book. In Joseph’s own words, she was the “hormones” of this epoch