Videos
The 81st George E. Morrison Lecture: The Role of Shanghai in Building Modern Science in China in the 19th Century
Historians of “Chinese science” until recently have spent much of their time researching issues in pre-modern natural studies and trying to explain why modern science, technology, and medicine arrived so late in China. The “Needham Question”—Why did a divided Europe, and not imperial China, develop modern science first?—until recently remained preeminent.
