Reminiscence of a roving scholar : science, humanities, and Joseph Needham / Ho Peng Yoke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ho, Peng Yoke, 1926-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scientists--Great Britain--Biography.

Scientists.

Science--China--History.

Science.

Needham, Joseph, 1900-1995.

Needham, Joseph.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (253 p.)

Place of Publication:

Singapore ; Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This fascinating book presents the unusual career of a scientist of Chinese Malaysian origin, Ho Peng Yoke, who became a humanist and rendered his services to both Eastern and Western intellectual worlds. It describes how Ho adapted to working under changing social and academic environments in Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, Hong Kong and England. His activities also covered East Asia, Europe and North America.Ho Peng Yoke worked in collaboration with Joseph Needham of Cambridge over different periods spanning half a century in the monumental series Science and Civilization in China. Ho subseq

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; 1 Early Years and Parentage; My School Years; Interregnum Period: World War II; From College to University; 2 Career as a Physicist; First Contact with Joseph Needham; First visit to Cambridge; Readership in the University of Singapore; 3 Professor of Chinese at Kuala Lumpur; A Widening Horizon; Second Visit to Cambridge; 1969 Edward Hume Lecture at Yale; Communal Disruption in Malaysia on 13 May; 4 A New Australian University; National and International Activities; Second Visit to China; Sabbatical Leave in Tokyo and Hong Kong; 5 The University of Hong Kong

A University Department where East and West MetConference on the History of Chinese Science and Needham in East Asia; Second Period of Secondment to Hong Kong; The South Wing of the Needham Research Institute; 6 Return to Griffith University; Member of Academia Sinica; Preparations for Cambridge; 7 The Needham Research Institute; Difficult Years in Cambridge; The Institute Gradually Getting Back on the Rails; The Dragon's Ascent; After Cambridge; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611881177

9781281881175

1281881171

9789812700995

9812700994