HPSTM in East Asia

We meet fortnightly on Wednesdays, 11am–12noon in the Board Room of the Needham Research Institute (8 Sylvester Road, Cambridge, CB3 9AF). Please see below for the date and details of each event.

We will also send out a reminder and the online joining link to our mailing list every Friday before the session.

Enquiries about the group and the mailing list should be directed to Zhi-Yu Chen, Zhilin Chu or Fu Ge Yang.

Michaelmas Term 2026

28 October
Article workshop with Zhi-Yu Chen, 'Chinese Portable Sundials in English Collections and Teleological Histories of Science'

11 November
Reading session with Zhilin Chu, 'Capital, Pest, Patient: Animals and Public Health in Modern East Asia'

25 November
Talk by Shih-Yu Juan (Brown University), 'Directing Auspicious Space and Time: Making and Remaking the Chinese Compass in Republican China'