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近代中医的身体观与思想转型：唐宗海与中西医汇通时代 [Views of the Body and Intellectual Transformation in Modern Chinese Medicine: Tang Zonghai and the Era of Chinese-Western Medical Convergence]

Tang Zonghai (1851-97) is well known as one of the earliest modern proponents of the integration of Chinese and...

近代中医的身体观与思想转型：唐宗海与中西医汇通时代 [Views of the Body and Intellectual Transformation in Modern Chinese Medicine: Tang Zonghai and the Era of Chinese-Western Medical Convergence]

Wen-Tsong Chiou Ed., Legal Construction of Public Health Risks

Four years has passed since the pandemics of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) manifested how vulnerable...

Wen-Tsong Chiou Ed., Legal Construction of Public Health Risks

Colonial Authority and Statistics: the Statistics System of the Chosŏn Government-General and its Censuses

Statistical practices have often been assumed as routine and prosaic, if not entirely value-neutral, activities of...

Colonial Authority and Statistics: the Statistics System of the Chosŏn Government-General and its Censuses

Charlotte von Verschuer, Rice, Agriculture, and the Food Supply in Premodern Japan

Rice, Agriculture, and the Food Supply in Premodern Japan by the French scholar Charlotte von Verschuer is a...

Charlotte von Verschuer, Rice, Agriculture, and the Food Supply in Premodern Japan

養生與修身:晚明的養生文化與文人生活 [Nourishing Life and Cultivating the Body: Writing the Literati's Body and Techniques for Preserving Health in the Late Ming]

In the last two decades, historians have studied critical social and cultural changes of the late Ming, from the...

養生與修身:晚明的養生文化與文人生活 [Nourishing Life and Cultivating the Body: Writing the Literati's Body and Techniques for Preserving Health in the Late Ming]

面對疾病:傳統中國社會的醫療觀念與組織 [In the Face of Disease: Concepts and Institutions of Medicine in Traditional Chinese Society]

Rarely is a moment more special in a scholar's career than the publication in one single volume of over a dozen...

面對疾病:傳統中國社會的醫療觀念與組織 [In the Face of Disease: Concepts and Institutions of Medicine in Traditional Chinese Society]

Laura Hein, Reasonable Men, Powerful Words: Political Culture and Expertise in Twentieth-Century Japan

This book is a collective biography of the Ōuchi group, Ōuchi Hyōe (1888–1980), and his five students, Arisawa Hiromi...

Laura Hein, Reasonable Men, Powerful Words: Political Culture and Expertise in Twentieth-Century Japan

Chinese Surplus: Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body

Post-Mao China has seen the embrace of a neoliberal market logic that has brought the objectification and...

Chinese Surplus: Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body

精神疾患言説の歴史社会学-『心の病』はなぜ流行するのか [A Historical and Sociological Analysis of the Discursive Practice of Mental Illness: Why Did a Particular “Mental Sickness” Become Prevalent in a Certain Period?]

During the Meiji Restoration (1868-1912), Japan's leaders encouraged the population to acquire modern knowledge from...

精神疾患言説の歴史社会学-『心の病』はなぜ流行するのか [A Historical and Sociological Analysis of the Discursive Practice of Mental Illness: Why Did a Particular “Mental Sickness” Become Prevalent in a Certain Period?]

T. Kojima, Kagakugijutsu to Risuku No Shakaigaku

This book is one of the few ambitious works written by young Japanese sociologists of science and technology. Based...

T. Kojima, Kagakugijutsu to Risuku No Shakaigaku