Although we received the hard copy of EASTS issue 2 this June 2008, there had already been 3 years since our Taiwan and East Asian teams began working on EASTS. Our Taiwan EASTS editorial board then liked to have a “birthday party” on June 15 to celebrate both the publications of the first two issues and our 3 years hard and happy works. Meanwhile, there were two important STS events unfolding in that birthday party. One is the keynote speech “From Medical Tourism to Egg Donation: Reflections on East Asian STS” by Professor Charis Thompson of UC Berkeley. The other is a round table discussion entitled: How Technology Traveled from Old Oriental to New East Asia? STS and Area Studies, with four engaging panelists: Professor John Lie, Dean of the Area Studies School in UC Berkeley, Professor Charis Thompson, Professor Chen Dung-Sheng of National Taiwan University, and myself. Now, we have three very interesting, albeit short, articles ready, which are originated from that round table discussion, and I am very pleased here to briefly introduce them in this panel discussion section of the current EASTS issue (vol. 2, no. 3).
