Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11861/10844
Title: Rethinking the needham question: A non-eurocentric framework transcending dialogism
Authors: Prof. Lau, Raymond Wing-kam 
Issue Date: 2024
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
Source: Lau, W. K. (2024). Rethinking the needham question: A non-eurocentric framework transcending dialogism. Palgrave Macmillan Singapore.
Description: This book offers a new investigation of the Needham Question. Why did modern science emerge in Europe, but not in any of the advanced non-European civilizations? Eurocentric accounts attribute it to certain ‘qualities’ said to be ‘unique’ to Europe. Opposed to the Eurocentric view is a position known as the ‘dialogical perspective’. Dialogism argues that Europe borrowed heavily from non-European scientific knowledges, and that scientific exchanges were key to the development of modern science. Neo-Eurocentric arguments have emerged in response to the challenge of dialogism, and the debate between Eurocentrism/neo-Eurocentrism and dialogism currently stands at a stalemate. In this book, Raymond Lau brings a new theoretical-methodological framework to finally settle this debate. The historical analysis developed here shows that to secure the non-Eurocentric case, and decisively rebut Eurocentrism and neo-Eurocentrism, it is necessary to go beyond dialogism both theoretically and methodologically. 358 pages
Type: Book
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11861/10844
ISBN: 9789819794713
9789819794720
9789819794744
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-97-9472-0
Appears in Collections:Contemporary China Research Center - Publication

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