清華經濟史論壇

時間：2018年10月10日（周三）上午11：00

地點：六教B407室

演講人：阿梅龍Iwo Amelung,法蘭克福大學教授

演講語言：中文

主持人：beat365經濟學研究所 龍登高教授

阿梅龍(Iwo Amelung)現為德國法蘭克福大學東亞研究中心教授。曾在德國多所著名大學任教和工作，是德國新一代中國研究專家中的佼佼者。專長研究近代中西科學知識交流史、中國科學史學史、黃河水利史。用德、英、中文發表過許多論著，其中專著《山東黃河：晚清洪災治理》（2000）享有國際學術盛譽。合編《新術語與新思想》（2000）、《法蘭克福學派在中國》（2009）等論文集在近代中西科學文化交流史研究者中頗受推崇。曾應邀在英、法、意、日、新加坡等國家以及香港、北京、上海等地知名大學和研究機構講學。

講座摘要：In characterizing the emergence of modern science, Joseph Needham speaks of the “sea of universal science” into which (among others) the “river of Chinese science” flows.

Modern science thus is portrayed as a truly “universal” endeavor. While Needham’s assumption certainly is very attractive, it basically eclipses the most dramatic episode of the fate of modern science in China, namely the very complicated aspect of the appropriation of the concept of science from the West (and Japan) and especially the question of how scientific practice was related to the local environment of China. In this talk I will look into these questions in some detail and I will suggest, that many Chinese scientists of the Republican period were well aware that the “localization” (本土化) of science was of crucial importance for the development of the sciences in China.