The Needham Question is "Why has China been overtaken by the West in science & technology despite China's early successes?" Joseph Needham was a British biochemist who compiled a multi-volume compendium about *Science and Civilisation in China* and posed the Needham question as to why China had been overtaken by the West in science and technology, despite its earlier successes.
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