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David Fedman, Seeds of Control: Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020. 320 pp. $40 hardcover. ISBN: 9780295747453

The award-winning book from Professor David Fedman, a historian at the University of California Irvine, is a thoroughly

David Fedman, Seeds of Control: Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020. 320 pp. $40 hardcover. ISBN: 9780295747453

Susanne Brucksch and Kaori Sasaki, eds., Humans and Devices in Medical Contexts: Case Studies from Japan, Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. 324 pp. $119.99 hardcover, $89.00 eBook. ISBN: 9789813362796.

Humans and Devices in Medical Contexts, edited by Science and Technology Studies (STS) scholar Susanne Brucksch and...

Susanne Brucksch and Kaori Sasaki, eds., Humans and Devices in Medical Contexts: Case Studies from Japan, Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. 324 pp. $119.99 hardcover, $89.00 eBook. ISBN: 9789813362796.

Liz P.Y. Chee, Mao’s Bestiary: Medicinal Animals and Modern China, Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2021. 276 pp. $26.95 USD paperback. ISBN: 9781478014041.

Academic scholarship on Chinese medicine is well known for its excellent work on the medical theory, ancient and modern

Liz P.Y. Chee, Mao’s Bestiary: Medicinal Animals and Modern China, Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2021. 276 pp. $26.95 USD paperback. ISBN: 9781478014041.

Silvia M. Lindtner, Prototype Nation: China and the Contested Promise of Innovation. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. 288 pp. $24.95. ISBN: 9780691207674.

This book review, part of a featured piece in our thematic issue, titled "Challenging and Reinvigorating China...

Silvia M. Lindtner, Prototype Nation: China and the Contested Promise of Innovation. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. 288 pp. $24.95. ISBN: 9780691207674.

Eugenia Lean, Vernacular Industrialism in China: Local Innovation and Translated Technologies in the Making of a Cosmetics Empire, 1900–1940, New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. 416 pp. $65 hardcover. ISBN: 9780231550338.

Chen Diexian (1879-1940) was a polymath, or, as Eugenia Lean introduces him, "a cosmopolitan man of letters...

Eugenia Lean, Vernacular Industrialism in China: Local Innovation and Translated Technologies in the Making of a Cosmetics Empire, 1900–1940, New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. 416 pp. $65 hardcover. ISBN: 9780231550338.

Rui Kunze and Marc Andre Matten, Lanham, Knowledge Production in Mao-era China: Learning from the Masses, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2021, xxvii+167 pp. $95.00 (hardcover). ISBN: 9781498584616.

Maoist "mass science," the mass-oriented policy of knowledge production and its dissemination, has been a central

Rui Kunze and Marc Andre Matten, Lanham, Knowledge Production in Mao-era China: Learning from the Masses, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2021, xxvii+167 pp. $95.00 (hardcover). ISBN: 9781498584616.

Victor Seow, Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia, Chicago: UCP, 2021. 376 pp. $40. ISBN: 9780226721996.

With felicitous prose and powerful images, Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia by Victor Seow...

Victor Seow, Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia, Chicago: UCP, 2021. 376 pp. $40. ISBN: 9780226721996.

Yan Liu, Healing with Poisons: Potent Medicines in Medieval China. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021. 276 pp. $99.00 hardcover, $30.00 paperback. ISBN: 9780295748993.

From the second half of the twentieth century onward, the more that modern biomedicine has developed, the more...

Yan Liu, Healing with Poisons: Potent Medicines in Medieval China. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021. 276 pp. $99.00 hardcover, $30.00 paperback. ISBN: 9780295748993.

Qi Han 韩琦, 通天之学:耶稣会士和天文学在中国的传播 [The Study of Communicating with Heaven: Jesuits and the Dissemination of Astronomy in China] Beijing, China: SDX Joint Publishing Company, 2018. 417 pp. RMB¥ 88.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9787108063229.

This book is written by Professor Qi Han of the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Professor Qi Han is...

Qi Han 韩琦, 通天之学:耶稣会士和天文学在中国的传播 [The Study of Communicating with Heaven: Jesuits and the Dissemination of Astronomy in China] Beijing, China: SDX Joint Publishing Company, 2018. 417 pp. RMB¥ 88.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9787108063229.

Sheila Jasanoff, The Ethics of Invention: Technology and the Human Future

A note on this review: starting with the invitation for a conventional book review, Xiaowei Huang, the author who panned

Sheila Jasanoff, The Ethics of Invention: Technology and the Human Future