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The Vaccinators: Smallpox, Medical Knowledge, and the “Opening” Of Japan

Although this stimulating book has already been discussed in numerous journals since its publication in 2007, the...

The Vaccinators: Smallpox, Medical Knowledge, and the “Opening” Of Japan

Graphics and Text in the Production of Technical Knowledge in China: The Warp and the Weft

Although studies of graphics and visual representations in the history of science and technology appeared as early...

Graphics and Text in the Production of Technical Knowledge in China: The Warp and the Weft

Technology of Empire: Telecommunications and Japanese Expansion in Asia, 1883–1945

The March 2011 earthquake and tsunami-ravaged parts of northeastern Japan. The devastation was followed by the...

Technology of Empire: Telecommunications and Japanese Expansion in Asia, 1883–1945

The Origins of the Developmental State in Taiwan: Science Policy and the Quest for Modernization

Taiwan, together with her three counterparts, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Singapore, saw growth rates so high during...

The Origins of the Developmental State in Taiwan: Science Policy and the Quest for Modernization

中國史新論:科技與中國社會分冊 [New Perspectives on Chinese History: Science, Technology, and Chinese Society] Mr. Science and Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution: Science and Technology in Modern China Science and Technology in Modern China, 1880s–1940s

Three recent collections of scholarship on science and technology in China strongly suggest that the Needham paradigm...

中國史新論:科技與中國社會分冊 [New Perspectives on Chinese History: Science, Technology, and Chinese Society] Mr. Science and Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution: Science and Technology in Modern China Science and Technology in Modern China, 1880s–1940s

Animals through Chinese History: Earliest Times to 1911

Since at least the 1990s, the topic of animals has been receiving attention from scholars wishing to explore the...

Animals through Chinese History: Earliest Times to 1911

Looking at It from Asia: The Processes that Shaped the Sources of History of Science

Roy Porter, the historian of Western medicine, once wrote that "the historical record is like the night sky: we see a...

Looking at It from Asia: The Processes that Shaped the Sources of History of Science

Suzanne Moon, Technology and Ethical Idealism. A History of Development in the Netherlands East Indies

Suzanne Moon's Technology and Ethical Idealism provides a meticulous and elegant history of the place of technology...

Suzanne Moon, Technology and Ethical Idealism. A History of Development in the Netherlands East Indies

Acid Rain Science and Politics in Japan

Much recent scholarship in science and technology studies has focused on understanding the local dimensions of...

Acid Rain Science and Politics in Japan

Hiroko Takahashi, Classified Hiroshima and Nagasaki: U.s. Nuclear Test and Civil Defense Program

The author is a member of the Hiroshima City University Hiroshima Peace Institute. She earned her doctorate in the...

Hiroko Takahashi, Classified Hiroshima and Nagasaki: U.s. Nuclear Test and Civil Defense Program