Joseph Needham Professorship of Chinese History, Science, and Civilization

The Joseph Needham Professorship of Chinese History, Science, and Civilization (李約瑟漢學教授席位) (previously the Professorship of Chinese) is the senior professorship of Chinese at the University of Cambridge. Originally founded in 1888, the chair was endowed with £2,000,000 and renamed in honor of Joseph Needham 李約瑟 in 2008.^[1]

List of Professors of Chinese

• 1888-1895 Sir Thomas Wade 威妥瑪
• 1897-1932 Herbert Giles 翟理斯
• 1933-1938 Arthur Christopher Moule
• 1938-1951 Gustav Haloun 哈隆
• 1953-1966 Edwin G. Pulleyblank
• 1968-1981 Denis C. Twitchett 崔瑞德
• 1985-1988 Glen Dudbridge 杜德橋
• 1989-2006 David L. McMullen 麥大維
• 2007-2008 Roel Sterckx 胡司德

List of Joseph Needham Professors of Chinese History, Science, and Civilization

• 2008 Roel Sterckx 胡司德

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