Ho Peng Yoke

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Ho Peng Yoke 何丙郁, born 4 April 1926 in Kinta Valley, died 18 October, 2014 in Brisbane was a Malaya-born historian of Chinese science, whose work in Australia, the UK, and Hong Kong contributed greatly to its understanding in Anglophone academia. After a distinguished career at Griffith University, where he was Chairman (1973-78) and Foundation Professor of the School of Modern Asian Studies, he became the director of the Needham Research Institute from 1990-2001.[1] He was a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and an Academician of Academia Sinica. [2]

Selected Bibliography[]

  • The Astronomical Chapters of the Jin Shu, Mouton & Co, 1966.
  • with F. P. Lisowski, Concepts of Chinese Science and Traditional Healing Arts: A Historical Overview, World Scientific, 1993, 100 pages ISBN 9810214960
  • with F. P. Lisowski, A Brief History of Chinese Medicine and Its Influence, World Scientific, 1999, 124 pages ISBN 9810228031
  • Li, Qi and Shu: An Introduction to Science and Civilization in China, Dover Publications, 2000, 272 pages ISBN 0486414450
  • Chinese Mathematical Astrology: Reaching out for the stars, RoutledgeCurzon, 2003, 232 pages ISBN 0415297591
  • Reminiscence of a Roving Scholar, (autobiographie), World Scientific,2005, 252 pages ISBN 9812565884

11 articles in Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures.

References[]

  1. ^ http://www.humanities.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/AAH-Obit-HO-2014.pdf
  2. ^ Sivin, Nathan. "Ho Peng Yoke: A Personal Introduction." East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine 24 (2005): 12-14.
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