The Joseph Needham Professorship of Chinese History, Science and Civilisation (李約瑟漢學教授席位) is the senior[citation needed] professorship of Chinese at the University of Cambridge.
The first chair was created for the single tenure of Sir Thomas Wade and did not entitle the holder to a stipend.
Following Wade's retirement, this first establishment was renewed once for the tenure of Herbert Giles, but was then suppressed.
A new chair, the Professorship of Chinese Language and History, was established in 1933, again for a single tenure.
In 2008, this professorship was endowed with £2,000,000 and renamed in honour of Joseph Needham 李約瑟.