E-mail: jiri.hudecek@ff.cuni.cz Tel: +420 221 619 601 Research Interests History of Chinese Science, especially Mathematics Intellectual History of early 20th century China Scientific contacts between Czechoslovakia and China

Employment

• 2012- Research Fellow, Institute of East Asian Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University
• 2011-2012 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Needham Research Institute, Cambridge UK
• 2004-2007 System Engineer, Eltodo EG a.s.

Education

• 2008–12 PhD in History and Philosophy of Science, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge
• 2007–8 MPhil in History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science, Technology and Medicine, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge (Distinction)
• 1999–2007 Ing. degree in Transportation Infrastructure, Czech Technical University, Prague
• 1999–2006 Mgr. degree in Sinology, Charles University, Prague

Main publications

Monographs

• Hudeček J.: Reviving Ancient Chinese Mathematics: Mathematics, History and Politics in the Work of Wu Wen-Tsun. London, Routledge, 2014. 210 s. ISBN 978-0-415-70296-6.
• Hudeček J.: Matematika v Devíti kapitolách. Sbírka početních metod z doby Han s komentářem Liu Huie z doby Wei a Li Chunfenga a dalších z doby Tang. Praha, Matfyzpress, 2008. 249 s. ISBN 978-80-7378-046-3.
  (Překlad Jiu zhang suan shu 九章算術)

Journal Articles

• Hudecek, J.: “Hua Loo-Keng’s Popularization of Mathematics and the Cultural Revolution”, Endeavour, 2017, č. 41, s. 85-93.
• Hudecek, J.: “Propagating the Best of Our Nation: Science Society of China and Early Historiography of Chinese Mathematics,” Ziran bianzhengfa tongxun (Journal of the Dialectics of Nature), 38(3), 34–41, 2016.
• Hudeček j.: Čínská debata o vědě a životních názorech ve 20. letech. Nový Orient, 2015 (70), č. 4, s. 7-18.
• Hudecek J.: Ancient Chinese Mathematics in Action: Wu Wen-Tsun’s Nationalist Historicism after the Cultural Revolution. East Asian Science, Technology and Society, 2012, č. 6, s. 41-64. ISSN 1875-2160.

Chapters in proceedings

• Hudeček J.: Science and Cultural Conservatism in the Dongfang zazhi (Eastern Miscellany), 1911–1927. The 8th Annual Czech and Slovak Sinological Conference. Proceedings. Olomouc, Univerzita Palackého, 2015, s. 79-92.
• Hudecek, J.: “Zhu Shijie’s method of ‘Four Unknowns’ as inspiration for Wu Wenjun”, in Multi-cultural Perspectives of the History of Science and Technology in China: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the History of Science in China. Beijing: Science Press, 49-56, 2012.