Education
He has an Master of Arts from University of Oxford in engineering and a Doctor of Philosophy from the School of Oriental and African Studies in classical Chinese.
He has an Master of Arts from University of Oxford in engineering and a Doctor of Philosophy from the School of Oriental and African Studies in classical Chinese.
He is Director Emeritus of the Needham Research Institute and General Editor of the Science and Civilisation in China series, succeeding Joseph Needham. His own area of research is the Han Dynasty and he translated the Book on Numbers and Computation into English.