From Gnomon Readings to Latitude and Longitude: The Generation and Updating of Latitude and Longitude Data in the Qing Dynasty
September 29 2026
Imaginaries of Flight: Avian Knowledge, Materiality, and Mobility in Early Modern Southeast Asia
September 29 2026
Flower Water (花露水) and Modern Chinese Perfumery
September 29 2026
Ma Kanwen Memorial Lecture
September 29 2026
From Classical to Modern: Geometry and Painting, East and West
September 29 2026
Shen 神 and Psychē: Chinese and Greek Accounts of Embodied Spirits
September 29 2026
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September 29 2026
From Song to Ming: Reading Julu in the NRI Collection
September 29 2026
Science and Art in the Illustrations of Johann Adam Schall von Bell’s Explanation of the Telescope 遠鏡說 (preface 1626)
September 29 2026
Crime and Punishment in the Astronomical Bureau: texts in the case of Wu Mingxuan, 1657
September 29 2026
Is it fraud? Jingshen healing and the psychiatric trade in 1930s Beijing
May 13 2026
Yukawa, Tanabe, and Zhuangzi: Yukawa and East Asian Thought in His Theoretical Physics
April 20 2026
The Conception of Immortality through the Configuration of Mortality in the Writings of Ge Hong 葛洪 (283–343)
April 20 2026
Deliberate Choice or Historical Contingency: A Re-examination of Joseph Needham’s 1952 Bacteriological Warfare Investigation and Its Impact on His Academic Transformation
April 20 2026
What’s in a Botanical Name? Dr. Shiu Ying Hu and Mobilizations of Botany in the 20th Century
April 20 2026
A Chemical Muse? Mushrooms in Daoism
April 20 2026
Red Lead (Hongqian): Menstrual Blood as Medicine in Late Imperial China
April 20 2026
Weaving Nature into Fabrics of Power in Qing Dynasty China: Case Studies of Fish Skin, Peacock Feathers, and Swansdown
April 20 2026
Promise and Peril: Hydropower and the Making of Socialist North Korea
April 20 2026
Foreign Astral Sciences in China: From the Six Dynasties to the Northern Song
April 20 2026
The Structure of the heavenly Dao from the Zhouyi: Newton, Joseph Needham & Roger Ames on Natural Cosmos
March 23 2026
Wind-Fire-Eye or Acute Conjunctivitis: Some Personal Recollections of Accessing the History of Chinese Medicine Through Translations of Ancient Texts
February 24 2026
Poster Link to full talk on Youtube
Finding China’s Present in Its Past
February 24 2026
Poster Link to full talk on Youtube
The Craft of Mud-Making: Matter, Time and History viewed through China’s Cropscapes.
February 24 2026
Poster Link to full talk on Youtube
The Science of Silk or what can China Contribute to the History of Science?
February 24 2026
Poster Link to full talk on Youtube
Liangzhu and the Origins of State Society in China
February 24 2026
Poster Link to full talk on Youtube
The Needham Puzzle and China’s Renaissance: a new Structural Economics Perspective
February 24 2026
Poster Link to full talk on Youtube
After Joseph Needham: the Legacy reviewed, the Agenda revised. Some Personal Reflections.
February 24 2026
Poster Link to full talk on Youtube
“Where is Real Tradition? A Historical and Comparative View of Chinese Acupuncture.”
February 17 2026
“Professor Ma Kanwen and his Ethnographic Journey of 1954”
February 17 2026
“A very short history of the pulse in China.”
February 17 2026
“Vitamins, Chinese Dietetics and Modern Nutritional Knowledge”
February 17 2026
“Healing the World with Words: Fang Yizhi’s 方以智 (1611-1671) Pharmacologics and the Dawn of Science in 17th Century China”
February 17 2026
“Ancient Canons vs. Contemporary Practices – Medical Practice in China during the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries”
February 17 2026
“Situating Practice: How the study of Daoism and Medicine can Inform the History of Science in China”
February 17 2026
‘Needham Memorial Lecture Cantilevered Plankways—A Remarkable feat of Ancient Chinese Engineering’.
January 27 2026
‘The Relocation of Psychoanalysis in South Korea ‘.
January 27 2026
‘Origins of Ivory in Bronze Age China’.
January 27 2026
‘Chinese Maritime Customs Meteorological Network Special Station: The Development of Meteorological Work at Yatung Customs in Tibet’.
January 27 2026
‘Liturgical Technologies and Porous Things: Daoist Responses to Illness and Disease in the Southern Song’.
January 27 2026
‘The British Origins of Dairoku Kikuchi’s Geometry Textbook and Its Influence on Japan’.
January 27 2026
‘A Western Gift for the Emperor: The Earliest Extant Chinese Globe (1623) in the British Library’.
January 27 2026
‘Theoretical Establishment and Clinical Application of Regulating Spirit in Cancer Treatment’.
January 27 2026