About Qi Han’s work
Qi Han held a Croucher Visitorship at the University of Hong Kong from January to June 2001. At the time, Han was based at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Biography
Qi Han graduated from the Institute of History of Natural Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991 with a PhD in the history of science. He served as a professor in the Department of History of Science and Technology in the School of Humanities of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Deputy Director and distinguished researcher of the Institute of History of Natural Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, editor-in-chief of Studies in the History of Natural Sciences.
His research interests include the history of science in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the history of cultural exchanges between China and the West in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the history of Catholicism in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the history of Chinese printing, and the history of geology in the Republic of China. He is the author of The Spread of Science and Technology in China and Its Influence (1582-1793) and The Study of Tongtian: The Jesuits and the Spread of Astronomy in China.