若干西方学者关于李约瑟工作的评述——兼论中国科学技术史研究的编史学问题

Reflection About Joseph Needham's Work by Some Western Scholars:Some Historiographical Issues About Studies of the History of Chinese Science

以李约瑟的工作对中国科学史研究的贡献和意义的讨论作为出发点,进而在一些国外学者研究的基础上,在目前国际上对中国科学史研究的背景下,对李约瑟的工作中的若干概念、假定与存在问题进行了科学编史学的分析,尝试发现一些国际上中国科学史研究在观念与方法上的新的动向,并就有关问题提出了一些初步总结。

Taking the contribution and meaning of Joseph Needhamd's work as a start point, based on some researches by foreign scholars, this paper, in the background of international researches on the history of Chinese science , analyzed some concepts , hypotheses and existing problems in Joseph Needham's work, tried to find the new trends of international researches on the history of Chinese science in ideas and methodology, and tried to make some summaries on such issues.