| Name: | Dr CHO Philip |
| Designation: | Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Department: | Asia Research Institute |
| Organisation: | National University of Singapore |
| Organisation Address: | Bukit Timah Campus |
| Office: | 08-8A |
| Telephone: | 6516 1221 |
| Fax: | 6779 1428 |
| Email: | aripcss@nus.edu.sg |
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Dr Philip Cho has commenced a one-year appointment as Postdoctoral Fellow in the Open Category with effect from 6 July 2009.
Dr Cho’s research broadly examines the manifold influence of popular religion on the development of Chinese science, technology and medicine during the social and cultural transformations of the 16th through 19th centuries. Popular religious rituals, prayers and songs were not only important in the social performance of craft work and healing but also reflective of different cognitive processes involved in conveying technical knowledge.
Dr Cho draws on a background in cognitive neuroscience from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and history and sociology of science from the University of Pennsylvania.
In addition to his historical work, he is interested in contemporary developments in science and technology in Asia, especially south-south technical cooperation. He has written reports on numerous topics for the MIT Liaison Office, the US Embassy Beijing, Environment, Science and Technology Section, and more recently, the Institute for the Future, a think-tank in Palo Alto, California.
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Brief Write-Up on Proposed Work:
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While at ARI, Dr Cho will be working on an edited volume on artisanal practice and popular culture in late imperial China; two articles, one on popular religion and sericulture and the other on ritual healing; and a book manuscript, tentatively titled Cognition and Culture in Chinese Science, Technology, and Medicine. |
