Malaya-born historian of Chinese science (1926–2014)
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
ISBN9810214960
with F. P. Lisowski, A Brief History of Chinese Medicine and Its Influence, World Scientific, 1999, 124 pages
ISBN9810228031
Li, Qi and Shu: An Introduction to Science and Civilization in China, Dover Publications, 2000, 272 pages
ISBN0486414450
Chinese Mathematical Astrology: Reaching out for the stars, RoutledgeCurzon, 2003, 232 pages
ISBN0415297591
Reminiscence of a Roving Scholar, (autobiography), World Scientific, 2005, 252 pages
ISBN9812565884