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Daiwie Fu
Daiwie Fu (first name pronunciated from Taiwanese Hokkien, , born September 1953) is a Taiwanese academic, and the founding editor-in-chief of the STS academic journal ''East Asian Science, Technology and Society''. He was formerly Distinguished Professor of the graduate institute of STS, now Emeritus Professor, in National Yang-Ming Chao-Tong University. His research areas are science and technology studies, gender and medicine in modern Taiwan, gender and science, East Asian STS, history and philosophy of science, and the history of Chinese science (mainly on ''biji'', ''Mengxi Bitan'' and the cultural history of science in the Song Dynasty). He has published papers in Chinese, English, Italian, Korean, and Japanese. He published three academic books, several social criticisms, and has founded several Taiwanese magazines and academic journals, including the radical journal, ''Taiwan: a Radical Quarterly in Social Studies''. Since the lifting of Taiwan's martial law, he has also pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daiwie Fu
Daiwie Fu (first name pronunciated from Taiwanese Hokkien, , born September 1953) is a Taiwanese academic, and the founding editor-in-chief of the STS academic journal ''East Asian Science, Technology and Society''. He was formerly Distinguished Professor of the graduate institute of STS, now Emeritus Professor, in National Yang-Ming Chao-Tong University. His research areas are science and technology studies, gender and medicine in modern Taiwan, gender and science, East Asian STS, history and philosophy of science, and the history of Chinese science (mainly on ''biji'', ''Mengxi Bitan'' and the cultural history of science in the Song Dynasty). He has published papers in Chinese, English, Italian, Korean, and Japanese. He published three academic books, several social criticisms, and has founded several Taiwanese magazines and academic journals, including the radical journal, ''Taiwan: a Radical Quarterly in Social Studies''. Since the lifting of Taiwan's martial law, he has also pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science And Technology Studies
Science and technology studies (STS) is an interdisciplinary field that examines the creation, development, and consequences of science and technology in their historical, cultural, and social contexts. History Like most interdisciplinary fields of study, STS emerged from the confluence of a variety of disciplines and disciplinary subfields, all of which had developed an interest—typically, during the 1960s or 1970s—in viewing science and technology as socially embedded enterprises. The key disciplinary components of STS took shape independently, beginning in the 1960s, and developed in isolation from each other well into the 1980s, although Ludwik Fleck's (1935) monograph ''Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact'' anticipated many of STS's key themes. In the 1970s Elting E. Morison founded the STS program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which served as a model. By 2011, 111 STS research centers and academic programs were counted worldwide. Key them ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History And Philosophy Of Science
The history and philosophy of science (HPS) is an Discipline (academia), academic discipline that encompasses the philosophy of science and the History of science and technology, history of science. Although many scholars in the field are trained primarily as either historians or as philosophers, there are degree-granting departments of HPS at several prominent universities. Though philosophy of science and history of science are their own disciplines, history and philosophy of science is a discipline in its own right. Philosophy of science is a branch of philosophy concerned with the foundations, methods, and implications of science. The central questions of this study concern what qualifies as science, the reliability of scientific theories, and the ultimate purpose of science. This discipline overlaps with metaphysics, ontology, and epistemology, for example, when it explores the relationship between science and truth. Philosophy of science focuses on metaphysical, epistemic an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biji (Chinese Literature)
Biji () is a genre in classical Chinese literature. It roughly translates "notebook". A book of biji can contain anecdotes, quotations, random musings, philological speculations, literary criticism and indeed everything that the author deems worth recording. The genre first appeared during the Wei and Jin dynasties, and matured during the Tang Dynasty. The biji of that period of time mostly contains the believe-it-or-not kind of anecdotes, and many of them can be treated as collections of short fictions. To differentiate this kind of "biji fiction" from the general biji, the former is later called "biji xiaoshuo" (筆記小說 "notebook fictions"). Biji flourished during the Song Dynasty, and continued to flourish during the later dynasties. Famous works of biji include: *''Miscellaneous Morsels from Youyang'' (酉陽雜俎 ''Yǒuyáng Zázǔ''), by Duan Chengshi, Tang Dynasty *''Dream Pool Essays'' (夢溪筆談 ''Mèngxī Bǐtán'') by Shen Kua, Song Dynasty *''Notebooks from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dream Pool Essays
''The Dream Pool Essays'' (or ''Dream Torrent Essays'') was an extensive book written by the Chinese polymath and statesman Shen Kuo (1031–1095), published in 1088 during the Song dynasty (960–1279) of China. Shen compiled this encyclopedic work while living in forced retirement from government office, naming the book after his private estate near modern Zhenjiang, Jiangsu province. The ''Dream Pool Essays'' was heavily reorganized in reprint editions by later Chinese authors from the late 11th to 17th centuries. In modern times it has been translated from Chinese into several languages. These include English, German, French, and Japanese translations. The ''Dream Pool Essays'' covers a range of topics including discoveries and advancements in Traditional Chinese medicine, mathematics, astronomy, science and technology, optics, architecture and civil engineering, metallurgy, and early archaeology. Observations of the natural world included those of wildlife, meteorolog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Song Dynasty
The Song dynasty (; ; 960–1279) was an imperial dynasty of China that began in 960 and lasted until 1279. The dynasty was founded by Emperor Taizu of Song following his usurpation of the throne of the Later Zhou. The Song conquered the rest of the Ten Kingdoms, ending the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. The Song often came into conflict with the contemporaneous Liao, Western Xia and Jin dynasties in northern China. After retreating to southern China, the Song was eventually conquered by the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty. The dynasty is divided into two periods: Northern Song and Southern Song. During the Northern Song (; 960–1127), the capital was in the northern city of Bianjing (now Kaifeng) and the dynasty controlled most of what is now Eastern China. The Southern Song (; 1127–1279) refers to the period after the Song lost control of its northern half to the Jurchen-led Jin dynasty in the Jin–Song Wars. At that time, the Song court retreated south of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhou Bi
Zhou Bi (pinyin: ''Zhōu Bì''; 周毖, or 周珌; died 2 April 190) was an official of the Eastern Han Dynasty. He was the son of Zhou Shen (). He was mentioned in the biographies of Emperor Xian, Dong Zhuo and Yuan Shao in the'' Book of Later Han'', and the biographies of Yuan Shao and Xu Jing in the ''Records of the Three Kingdoms''. Life His place of birth is uncertain; it was recorded as Hanyang () in Xu Jing's biography in the ''Records of the Three Kingdoms'', and Wuwei () in Dong Zhuo's biography in the ''Book of Later Han''.(“珌”作“毖”，字仲远，武威人。琼字德瑜。珌音秘。) ''Yingxiong Ji'' annotation in ''Houhanshu'', vol. 72 When Dong Zhuo seized the power in September 189, Zhou Bi had Dong Zhuo's full confidence. Shortly after, Yuan Shao left the capital, laying down his public office. Zhou Bi, then Palace Attendant, joined the Colonel of the City Gates Wu Qiong and He Yong in jointly advising Dong Zhuo to appease the rage of Yuan Shao b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
周髀算經
The ''Zhoubi Suanjing'' () is one of the oldest Chinese mathematical texts. "Zhou" refers to the ancient Zhou dynasty (1046–256 BCE); "Bì" literally means "thigh", but in the book refers to the gnomon of a sundial. The book is dedicated to astronomical observation and calculation. ''Suan Jing'' or "classic of arithmetics" were appended in later time to honor the achievement of the book in mathematics. This book dates from the period of the Zhou dynasty, yet its compilation and addition of materials continued into the Han dynasty (202 BCE–220 CE). It is an anonymous collection of 246 problems encountered by the Duke of Zhou and his astronomer and mathematician, Shang Gao. Each question has stated their numerical answer and corresponding arithmetic algorithm. The book also makes use of the Pythagorean Theorem on various occasions and might also contain a geometric proof of the theorem for the case of the 3-4-5 triangle (but the procedure works for a general right triangle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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