Ho Peng Yoke 何丙郁, born 4 April 1926 in Kinta Valley, died 18 October 2014 in

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, 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

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, 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 to 2001. He was a Fellow of the

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and an Academician of

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.Sivin, Nathan.
Peng Yoke: A Personal Introduction
East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine 24 (2005): 12-14.

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 * with F. P. Lisowski, ''A Brief History of Chinese Medicine and Its Influence'', World Scientific, 1999, 124 pages * ''Li, Qi and Shu: An Introduction to Science and Civilization in China'', Dover Publications, 2000, 272 pages * ''Chinese Mathematical Astrology: Reaching out for the stars'', RoutledgeCurzon, 2003, 232 pages * ''Reminiscence of a Roving Scholar'', (autobiography), World Scientific, 2005, 252 pages 11 articles in

Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures ''Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures'' is an encyclopedia edited by Helaine Selin and published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in 1997, with a second edition in 2008, and third edition in 2016 ...

References

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