{{Short description|English sinologist}} {{other people}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Notability|Bio|date=December 2017}}
'''Christopher Cullen''' is an English sinologist born in 1946.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Cullen|first1=Christopher|doi= 10.1007/s11873-010-0136-x | journal=Revue de synthèse | pages=605–612 | title= Translating ancient Chinese calendars | url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11873-010-0136-x | volume=131 | year=2010 |issue=4 | url-access=subscription }}</ref> He has an MA from University of Oxford in engineering and a PhD 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.<ref>[http://www.nri.org.uk/cullen.html NRI page on Christopher Cullen]</ref> His own area of research is the Han Dynasty<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20130614211717/http://english.cri.cn/4406/2009/10/21/1701s524070.htm China Radio International]</ref> and he translated the Book on Numbers and Computation into English.<ref>[http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/making-sense-of-the-cosmos-in-ancient-china/ University of Cambridge]</ref>
==Publications== * {{cite book |last = Cullen |first = Christopher |year = 1996 |title = Astronomy and Mathematics in Ancient China: The Zhou Bi Suan Jing |publisher = Cambridge University Press| location = Cambridge; New York|isbn = 0521550890|ref = none}} * {{cite journal |last =Cullen, Christopher |author-mask = 2|title =Joseph Needham on Chinese Astronomy |journal =Past & Present |issue = 87 |pages =39–53 |date =1980 |jstor = 650565 |ref= none}} * --, and Vivienne Lo, eds., ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=OgusGV1EKA0C Medieval Chinese Medicine: The Dunhuang Medical Manuscripts].'' Taylor & Francis, Needham Research Institute Series, 2004. {{ISBN|9781134291311}}.
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==External links== * Christopher Cullen, "[http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/making-sense-of-the-cosmos-in-ancient-china Making sense of the cosmos in ancient China]," Cambridge University.
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