Based on archival materials discovered in America,Britain,and China,this paper carefully examines the history of the short-lived and completely overlooked Department of Physics in the Premedical School of Peking Union...Based on archival materials discovered in America,Britain,and China,this paper carefully examines the history of the short-lived and completely overlooked Department of Physics in the Premedical School of Peking Union Medical College(PUMC),and uncovers this department’s extensive interconnections with its counterpart at Yenching University.This project also looks into the Master of Science(MS)program in the Department of Physics at Yenching University,which,founded in 1927,was the first graduate program in physics in China.It was this MS program that transformed the Yenching Department from a largely premedical training center serving the PUMC into a prominent cradle of Chinese physics research.This Yenching Department,despite its small faculty and brief existence,nurtured many eminent Chinese physicists,such as Chao-Ying Meng孟昭英,Wen-Yu Chang张文裕,Ming-Chen Wang王明贞,Chia-Liu Luke Yuan袁家骝,Cheng-Shu Wang(Chang)王承书,Ho-Fu Lu卢鹤绂,Ting-Sui Ke葛庭燧,Kun Huang黄昆,and Chia-Lin Hsieh谢家麟.It would have been impossible to achieve these outstanding accomplishments without the effective leadership and pioneering work of C.H.Corbett,P.A.Anderson,Y.M.Hsieh,and W.Band—the first four Department Chairs—in combination with relatively abundant private funding,mostly from America,and extensive educational connections with Western institutions.This paper not only introduces in detail these four department heads and their contributions,but also discloses the unique role played by the Rockefeller Foundation via the China Medical Board and the PUMC in the development of the Yenching Department of Physics.展开更多
2021年牛津版《技术史》中译8卷本问世。使用“A History of Technology”、“Charles Singer”、“查尔斯·辛格”、“牛津版技术史”等关键词,系统检索Nature、JSTOR、Web of Science等十几个国外数据库,以及CNKI中国学术网络出...2021年牛津版《技术史》中译8卷本问世。使用“A History of Technology”、“Charles Singer”、“查尔斯·辛格”、“牛津版技术史”等关键词,系统检索Nature、JSTOR、Web of Science等十几个国外数据库,以及CNKI中国学术网络出版总库、万方数据资源系统、维普中文科技期刊数据库等多个国内权威数据库,对牛津版《技术史》出版以来的中英文书评进行比较和分析,并在此基础上分卷评析这部著作,分析其特点,以供读者在研读牛津版《技术史》时参考。展开更多
本文以多伦多大学(University of Toronto)东亚系20世纪20年代至60年代的学术发展史为研究对象,以汉学家杜百胜(William Arthur Charles Harvey Dobson, 1913—1982)为研究中心,通过发掘和爬梳第一手史料,以历史学和比较文学理论为基础...本文以多伦多大学(University of Toronto)东亚系20世纪20年代至60年代的学术发展史为研究对象,以汉学家杜百胜(William Arthur Charles Harvey Dobson, 1913—1982)为研究中心,通过发掘和爬梳第一手史料,以历史学和比较文学理论为基础,研究加拿大多伦多大学东亚系中国研究的起承转合。笔者从加拿大传教士汉学入手,以专业汉学的启蒙与发展为重点,做基础性研究,以期略窥加拿大汉学发展史。展开更多
文摘Based on archival materials discovered in America,Britain,and China,this paper carefully examines the history of the short-lived and completely overlooked Department of Physics in the Premedical School of Peking Union Medical College(PUMC),and uncovers this department’s extensive interconnections with its counterpart at Yenching University.This project also looks into the Master of Science(MS)program in the Department of Physics at Yenching University,which,founded in 1927,was the first graduate program in physics in China.It was this MS program that transformed the Yenching Department from a largely premedical training center serving the PUMC into a prominent cradle of Chinese physics research.This Yenching Department,despite its small faculty and brief existence,nurtured many eminent Chinese physicists,such as Chao-Ying Meng孟昭英,Wen-Yu Chang张文裕,Ming-Chen Wang王明贞,Chia-Liu Luke Yuan袁家骝,Cheng-Shu Wang(Chang)王承书,Ho-Fu Lu卢鹤绂,Ting-Sui Ke葛庭燧,Kun Huang黄昆,and Chia-Lin Hsieh谢家麟.It would have been impossible to achieve these outstanding accomplishments without the effective leadership and pioneering work of C.H.Corbett,P.A.Anderson,Y.M.Hsieh,and W.Band—the first four Department Chairs—in combination with relatively abundant private funding,mostly from America,and extensive educational connections with Western institutions.This paper not only introduces in detail these four department heads and their contributions,but also discloses the unique role played by the Rockefeller Foundation via the China Medical Board and the PUMC in the development of the Yenching Department of Physics.
文摘2021年牛津版《技术史》中译8卷本问世。使用“A History of Technology”、“Charles Singer”、“查尔斯·辛格”、“牛津版技术史”等关键词,系统检索Nature、JSTOR、Web of Science等十几个国外数据库,以及CNKI中国学术网络出版总库、万方数据资源系统、维普中文科技期刊数据库等多个国内权威数据库,对牛津版《技术史》出版以来的中英文书评进行比较和分析,并在此基础上分卷评析这部著作,分析其特点,以供读者在研读牛津版《技术史》时参考。
文摘本文以多伦多大学(University of Toronto)东亚系20世纪20年代至60年代的学术发展史为研究对象,以汉学家杜百胜(William Arthur Charles Harvey Dobson, 1913—1982)为研究中心,通过发掘和爬梳第一手史料,以历史学和比较文学理论为基础,研究加拿大多伦多大学东亚系中国研究的起承转合。笔者从加拿大传教士汉学入手,以专业汉学的启蒙与发展为重点,做基础性研究,以期略窥加拿大汉学发展史。
