NEEDHAM RESEARCH INSTITUTE

TEXT-READING SEMINARS

The seminars are held at 4 p.m. at the Needham Research Institute.

The Needham Research Institute is situated at the corner of Sylvester

and Herschel Roads, behind Robinson College. Any queries about the

seminars should be directed to John Moffett (jm10019@cam.ac.uk)

EASTER TERM 2004

April 30: “Excess and deficit in the Nine Chapters and Suan Shu Shu.”

Christopher Cullen (NRI)

May 7: “Pile problems in the Guil Tsip.”

Cha Jongchun (Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul)

May 14: “Song Yingxing on iron and steel production: What were his sources?”

Donald B. Wagner (NIAS, Copenhagen)

May 21: “Treasures of the Longjiang Shipyard: Readings from the
Longjiang Chuan Chang Zhi.”

Sally Church (Wolfson College, Cambridge)

May 28: “Science under political control: Some texts relating to
ideology reform of Chinese scientists at the end of the 1950’s.”

Zhang Zhihui (NRI)

June 4: “Medical knowledge transfer between China and the Ryukyus in
the early 19th century: Some examples from the Liuqiu baiwen by Cao
Cunxin.”

Angela Schottenhammer (Ludwig-Maximillians-Universität,

Munich)

June 11: "Life and Death in Western and Eastern History of Ideas and
Medicine"

A Workshop, in conjunction with Tohoku University, Japan.

(Further details to be circulated.)