Pingyi Chu
Biographic Data
| ID | 3768920 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pingyi Chu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pingyi |
| FAMILY NAME | Chu |
| SIGNATURE | CHU P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Francesca Bray and Jongtae Lim, Science and Confucian Statecraft in East Asia
Needham in Taiwan
This article explains why and how Joseph Needham’s influential work Science and Civilisation in China was translated and appropriated in Taiwan. The author argues that the translation fulfilled the needs of the political agenda and served as ideological propaganda for the Taiwan government when it faced the challenge of the Cultural Revolution and the crisis of losing its membership in the United Nations. In the context of the martial law regime,…
Family Instructions and the Moral Economy of Medicine in Late Imperial China
This paper employs family instructions written by physicians in late imperial China to demonstrate how medicine was not only a technique of healing but also a platform where health, healing, and social values intertwined. I argue that the rise of the Confucian physician in late imperial China was not so much about professionalization of medicine but more about assimilating technical skills into a Confucian culture by the failed examination candid…
The Cambridge History of China
Volume 9, Part 2 of The Cambridge History of China is the second of two volumes which together explore the political, social and economic developments of the Ch'ing Empire during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries prior to the arrival of Western military power. Across fifteen chapters, a team of leading historians explore how the eighteenth century's greatest contiguous empire in terms of geographical size, population, wealth, cultural prod…
Scientific Texts in Contest, 1600–1800
Larissa N. Heinrich, The Afterlife of Images
The Afterlife of Images
Nationalistic history tends to swing back and forth between pride and humiliation. In one mode, it fosters solidarity among a varied populace by tracing the lineage of a nation to a single glorious
Remembering Our Grand Tradition
Les biographies des astronomes et des mathematiciens publiees dans un ouvrage au debut du XIX e siecle sont une reminiscence du passe chinois et une reponse au nouveau systeme de l'astronomie principalement transmis par les jesuites
Trust, Instruments, and Cross-Cultural Scientific Exchanges
The ArgumentThis paper examines the debate in China over the shape of the earth during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The main arguments are as follows. First, trust plays an important role in knowledge transmission. Second, partial communication between different woridviews is possible. In the case of the debate over the shape of the earth, partial communication was accomplished by the spread of Western astronomical instruments and ca…
Trust, Instruments, and Cross-Cultural Scientific Exchanges
The ArgumentThis paper examines the debate in China over the shape of the earth during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The main arguments are as follows. First, trust plays an important role in knowledge transmission. Second, partial communication between different woridviews is possible. In the case of the debate over the shape of the earth, partial communication was accomplished by the spread of Western astronomical instruments and ca…
Trust, Instruments, and Cross-Cultural Scientific Exchanges
The ArgumentThis paper examines the debate in China over the shape of the earth during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The main arguments are as follows. First, trust plays an important role in knowledge transmission. Second, partial communication between different woridviews is possible. In the case of the debate over the shape of the earth, partial communication was accomplished by the spread of Western astronomical instruments and ca…
Remembering Our Grand Tradition
Les biographies des astronomes et des mathematiciens publiees dans un ouvrage au debut du XIX e siecle sont une reminiscence du passe chinois et une reponse au nouveau systeme de l'astronomie principalement transmis par les jesuites
Scientific Texts in Contest, 1600–1800
Larissa N. Heinrich, The Afterlife of Images
The Afterlife of Images
Nationalistic history tends to swing back and forth between pride and humiliation. In one mode, it fosters solidarity among a varied populace by tracing the lineage of a nation to a single glorious
The Cambridge History of China
Volume 9, Part 2 of The Cambridge History of China is the second of two volumes which together explore the political, social and economic developments of the Ch'ing Empire during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries prior to the arrival of Western military power. Across fifteen chapters, a team of leading historians explore how the eighteenth century's greatest contiguous empire in terms of geographical size, population, wealth, cultural prod…
Family Instructions and the Moral Economy of Medicine in Late Imperial China
This paper employs family instructions written by physicians in late imperial China to demonstrate how medicine was not only a technique of healing but also a platform where health, healing, and social values intertwined. I argue that the rise of the Confucian physician in late imperial China was not so much about professionalization of medicine but more about assimilating technical skills into a Confucian culture by the failed examination candid…
Needham in Taiwan
This article explains why and how Joseph Needham’s influential work Science and Civilisation in China was translated and appropriated in Taiwan. The author argues that the translation fulfilled the needs of the political agenda and served as ideological propaganda for the Taiwan government when it faced the challenge of the Cultural Revolution and the crisis of losing its membership in the United Nations. In the context of the martial law regime,…
Francesca Bray and Jongtae Lim, Science and Confucian Statecraft in East Asia
China (8 works) · History (8 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · History of Science and Medicine (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)