The documents include a typed 'Outline of Joseph Needham's 'General Conclusions''; pamphlet produced by the Joseph needham Museum of Ancient Chinese Discovery, Canadian College for Chinese Studies, Victoria, Canada, entitled 'Ancient Chinese Discovery and The Future of the World', (1990); Kenneth Robinson's notes of 'Points for Discussion' regarding the section; copy of a paper by Michael Barrett Brown entitled 'A Note on the Military Basis of the Asiatic Mode of Production and some thoughts on the Judaeo-Christian myth of Man's creation and dominion', (July 1989); notes by Michael Loewe commenting on the section; copy of part of a letter from Owen Lattimore to Joseph Needham about the 'Asiatic Mode of Production', (9 June 1959); copy of a letter from Derk Bodde to Kenneth Robinson, commenting on Needham's 'intellectual and psychological approach to Chinese science', (9 September 1981).