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Reminiscence Of A Roving Scholar: Science, Humanities And Joseph Needham
Author(s): Peng Yoke Ho (Author)
- Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
- Publication Date: 14 Oct. 2005
- Language: English
- Print length: 252 pages
- ISBN-10: 9812565884
- ISBN-13: 9789812565884
Book Description
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 subsequently succeeded Needham as Director of the Needham Research Institute, where he held the post for 12 years. In the introduction to the final volume of that series, the Oxford scholar Mark Elvin remarked that Ho “had long piloted the ship through difficult times.” This book tells the story and more.
Editorial Reviews
Review
.,.” contains a great deal of first-hand information concerning the overseas studies on Chinese science and technology …”
About the Author
Ho Peng Yoke was Director of the Needham Research Institute for 12 years.
