List of Publications

Articles in scientific journals:

• Mathieu Torck, "Maritime travel and the question of provision and scurvy in a Chinese context" in Hans-Ulrich Vogel (ed.), (2005), in East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine (23), pp. 54-78.
   
• Na Na, Joris Delanghe, Youri Taes, Mathieu Torck, Willy Baeyens, Jin Ouyang (2006). "Serum vitamin C concentration is influenced by haptoglobin polymorphism and iron status in Chinese", in Clinica Chimica Acta (365), pp. 319-324 (A1).

Articles in books:

• Mathieu Torck, "The Unimaginable and Immeasurable? China's Vision of the Pacific - Needham's Views Re-examined", in Angela Schottenhammer, Roderich Ptak (ed.), The Conception of Maritime Space in Traditional Chinese Sources. (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 2006), pp. 141-152. East Asian Maritime History 2.
   
• Mathieu Torck, "The Issue of Food Provision and Scurvy in East and West: a Comparative Enquiry into Medieval Knowledge of Provisioning, Medicine and Seafaring History", in Angela Schottenhammer (ed.), Trade and Transfer Across the East Asian 'Mediterranean'. (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 2005), pp. 275-288. East Asian Maritime History 1.
   
• Mathieu Torck, "Xu-duo-da, Island of Blood's Desiccate and Dragon's Spittle: Socotra in early Chinese sources" in Catherine Cheung, Lyndon De Vantier, Socotra: A Natural History of the Islands and their People, Gonic (New Hampshire): Odyssey Press (chapter 8; publication awaited).
   
• Mathieu Torck, ("Compasses, Navigation and Junks") in "The Seven Wonders of China" (in preparation)

Proceedings of conferences:

• Tübingen, München en Singapore (cf. infra):
  Studies on Ancient Chinese Scientific and Technical Texts.
  Proceedings of the 3rd ISACBRST. ISBN:7-5347-3860-1. Zhengzhou: Daxiang chubanshe/Elephant Press 2006
• Tübingen (2003): Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Ancient Chinese Books and Records of Science and Technology, Zhengzhou: The Elephant Press, 2005. Title: "Dealing with provisional and scurvy matters in Chinese history: an introduction into Chinese maritime medicine and the text "Qingtui yagan".
• Singapore (2005): The Third International Conference of Institutes & Libraries for Chinese Overseas Studies, Singapore, 2005 on "Maritime Asia and the Chinese Overseas (1405 - 2005)" (CD-Rom); title: "The matter of provisioning in Zheng He's fleets: a reconstructive attempt".
• München (2005): East Asian Maritime History, vol. 2, Angela Schottenhammer, Roderich Ptak, (eds.), The Conception of Maritime Space in Traditional Chinese Sources (see above); title: "China's visions of the Pacific in history: the unimaginable and immeasurable" (pp. 141-154).

Book:

• book version of my doctoral dissertation under the title Avoiding the dire straits: an inquiry into the food provisions in premodern maritime and military China.
  (For the East Asian Maritime History series)