Shen Gua’s Empiricism — Zuo Frames Thirteen-year-old Anna

Thirteen-year-old Anna

Canada's childhood experiences influenced his sensitive understanding of violent attitudes born out of fear and self-preservation

2019 at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art

After the Storm

Shen Gua’s Empiricism — Zuo Frames Thirteen-year-old AnnaBy Ya Zuo, Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies Shen Gua (10311095) is a household name in China, known as a distinguished renaissance man and the author of Brush Talks from Dream Brook, an old text whose remarkable scientific discoveries make it appear curiously ahead of its time. In this first book length study of Shen in English, Ya Zuo reveals the connection between Shens life as an active statesman and his ideas, specifically the