This issue will see off the year 2017, the first year of EASTS's second decade and the first full year I have served as its editor in chief. I would like to thank all our associate editors, book review editors, and editorial and advisory board members for their generous help and support.
Special thanks go to Dr. Howard Chiang, guest editor of this issue, which we've called “From Postcolonial to Subimperial Formations of Medicine: Taiwan and Korea.” With five articles that nicely address the social and scientific dynamics in the geopolitical contexts of Cold War East Asia, it provides our readers with a gateway to revisit one of EASTS's early issues, “Colonial Sciences in Former Japan's Imperial Universities” (vol. 1, no. 2, 2007)—in which guest editor Togo Tsukahara insisted that Japanese imperialism should be considered a topic for the history of science and STS. By refashioning this notion, the present issue not only redirects readers' attention to Taiwan and Korea, the recipients of Japanese colonialism and outposts for the United States' strategic plan in Asia, but also introduces subimperialism, a theoretical framing that may be less familiar to EASTS readers but is useful in interpreting the postwar dynamics of these two former Japanese colonies. It does not mean that with this issue we are ready to put the notion of postcoloniality to rest. On the contrary, revisiting and refashioning the ways in which science and technology are cast with society are what EASTS sought to achieve in its first decade and will continue to do for the decade to come.
