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Prof. ZHOU Boqun 周博群教授

Chinese History and Culture Programme

Assistant Professor

BA (BFSU), MA (Chicago), PhD (Chicago)

852-39172880

852-28581334

Rm 722, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

Chinese Paleography, Early Chinese Intellectual History, History of Science and Technology

周博群博士畢業於芝加哥大學東亞語言文明系,在加入香港大學中文學院之前,曾短期擔任清華大學世界文學與文化研究院(IWLC)的博士後研究員。研究興趣集中在中國古代思想史、科技史、出土文獻等領域,近年來尤其關注哲學文本中涉及力學和光學的隱喻和類比。他的論文發表於《早期中國》(Early China)、《自然科學史研究》、《道》(Dao)、《東西方哲學》(Philosophy East and West)、《華裔學志》(Monumenta Serica)等期刊,並出版了清華簡《伊尹五篇》與《殷高宗問於三壽》的英譯和研究。

 

Zhou Boqun is an Assistant Professor in the School of Chinese at The University of Hong Kong. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations. Before joining the School of Chinese, he taught at the Institute for World Literatures and Cultures at Tsinghua University as a member of the Tsinghua-Michigan Society of Fellows.

 

His research focuses on the intellectual history of early China, the history of science and technology, and excavated texts. In recent years, he has examined mechanical and optical metaphors and analogies in philosophical writings. His work has appeared in Early China, Ziran Kexueshi Yanjiu (Studies in the History of Natural Science), Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy, Philosophy East and West, and Monumenta Serica. He has also published English translations and studies of several of the Tsinghua bamboo manuscripts.