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Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life; The Landscape of Keitai: The Routinization of Technology

It is astonishing to see how widespread and important Information and Communication Technology like the Internet and...

Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life; The Landscape of Keitai: The Routinization of Technology

対話の場をデザインする: 科学技術と社会のあいだをつなぐということ [Designing Dialogue Forums: Making a Connection between Techno-Science and Society]

"Even if his forecast had failed, we would not have blamed him" (43). These are the words of a person who had been...

対話の場をデザインする: 科学技術と社会のあいだをつなぐということ [Designing Dialogue Forums: Making a Connection between Techno-Science and Society]

Speaking of Epidemics in Chinese Medicine

Speaking of Epidemics in Chinese Medicine is the latest book by Marta Hanson, historian of Chinese science and...

Speaking of Epidemics in Chinese Medicine

Technology, Gender and History in Imperial China: Great Transformations Reconsidered

As the title of its introduction implies, the ambition of Francesca Bray's new book is to demonstrate the "power of...

Technology, Gender and History in Imperial China: Great Transformations Reconsidered

The Nature of the Beasts: Empire and Exhibition at the Tokyo Imperial Zoo

Going to the zoo has become such an ordinary ritual that we might wonder at a person who has never had the chance to...

The Nature of the Beasts: Empire and Exhibition at the Tokyo Imperial Zoo

Beyond Local Science: The Evolution of Japanese Seismology During the Meiji and the Taisho Eras

Seismology, the science of earthquakes and related issues, must seek to understand the Earth's natural mechanisms and...

Beyond Local Science: The Evolution of Japanese Seismology During the Meiji and the Taisho Eras

Zhu Kezhen Quanji 《竺可桢全集》 (The Complete Works of Coching Chu)

The recent publication of the twenty-four-volume Zhu Kezhen Quanji (hereafter ZKZQJ) is a historians' dream come...

Zhu Kezhen Quanji 《竺可桢全集》 (The Complete Works of Coching Chu)

Yuri Takhteyev, Coding Places: Software Practice in a South American City/Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking

Yuri Takhteyev's Coding Places is an ethnographic study of software development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. As such...

Yuri Takhteyev, Coding Places: Software Practice in a South American City/Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking

Nüren de zhongguo yiliao shi

This richly detailed book is a veritable master class in how to construct a "woman's history of medical care" when...

Nüren de zhongguo yiliao shi

Medicine and Society in Late Imperial China

Suzhou and the lower Yangzi River region, central to the material and intellectual life of the Chinese empire in the...

Medicine and Society in Late Imperial China