Michael Shiyung Liu

War and Medicine in Twentieth-Century China and Japan
September 10, 2023

An Introduction to War, Medicine and Modernity in East Asian Conflicts

1 War and Medicine Despite Hippocrates’ statement that “war is the only proper school for a surgeon,” contemporary hist
Research Article
November 18, 2021

The Ripples of Rivalry: The Spread of Modern Medicine from Japan to Its Colonies

Because the medical modernization of Meiji Japan has been identified with progress in Asian societies, Japanese...
book review
November 17, 2021

Renlei wenming de bengjie yu chongsheng

Mark Harrison, a well-known scholar of British colonial medicine who has written histories of wartime public health...
Research Article
November 15, 2021

Transforming Medical Paradigms in 1950s Taiwan

During the early Cold War period, medical reconstruction accelerated in Taiwan with the valuable support of the...