How does this sentence sound to you?

Well, looking at it in a strictly grammatical sense it passes muster, but I have problems with it in other ways. Science and Civilisation in China Series probably is not the correct title. The series, Science and Civilization in China, may be what you mean.

What's with the semi-colon? It's unmanly. Worse, it's confusing. You tell me Needham's work is mammoth in size--the largest ever--, but then you tell me of a parallel to Needham's in the same sentence.

This is a British English Title, by a British scientist.
I see what Tycoon means: there is a controdictory statement in this sentence, which I think can be removed by not using the superlative degree. Am right?

as a sentence i find it as woolly as it is mammoth

'the largest ever one man's intellectual project in the 20th century' is risible in the extreme

Joseph Needham's 'Science and Civilisation in China' grew from a curiousity to become a massive project. There are parallels with the work of the French historian Fernand Braudel (1902- 1985).

It's fine. But probably not written by a Briton.