Christopher Cullen is an English sinologist born in 1946. He has an MA from

University of Oxford The University of Oxford is a collegiate university, collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the List of oldest un ...

in engineering and a PhD from the

School of Oriental and African Studies The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS University of London; ) is a public research university in London, England, and a member institution of the federal University of London. Founded in 1916, SOAS is located in the Bloomsbury area ...

in classical Chinese. He is Director Emeritus of the

Needham Research Institute The Needham Research Institute (NRI; zh , t = 李約瑟研究所 ), located on the grounds of Robinson College, in Cambridge, England, is a centre for research into the history of science, technology and medicine in East Asia. The institute is ...

and General Editor of the

Science and Civilisation in China ''Science and Civilisation in China'' (1954–present) is an ongoing series of books about the history of science and technology in China published by Cambridge University Press. It was initiated and edited by British historian Joseph Needham (19 ...

series, succeeding

Joseph Needham Noel Joseph Terence Montgomery Needham (; 9 December 1900 – 24 March 1995) was a British biochemist, historian of science and sinologist known for his scientific research and writing on the history of Chinese science and technology, initia ...

. His own area of research is the

Han Dynasty The Han dynasty was an Dynasties of China, imperial dynasty of China (202 BC9 AD, 25–220 AD) established by Liu Bang and ruled by the House of Liu. The dynasty was preceded by the short-lived Qin dynasty (221–206 BC ...

and he translated the

Book on Numbers and Computation The ''Book on Numbers and Computation'' (), or the ''Writings on Reckoning'', is one of the earliest known Chinese mathematical treatises. It was written during the early Western Han dynasty, sometime between 202 BC and 186 BC.Liu et al. (2003), ...

into English.University of Cambridge
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Publications

* * * --, and Vivienne Lo, eds.,
Medieval Chinese Medicine: The Dunhuang Medical Manuscripts
'' Taylor & Francis, Needham Research Institute Series, 2004. .

References

External links

* Christopher Cullen,
Making sense of the cosmos in ancient China
" Cambridge University. {{DEFAULTSORT:Cullen, Christopher Alumni of SOAS University of London Alumni of the University of Oxford British sinologists Fellows of Darwin College, Cambridge Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people)