Hyungsub Choi

The Life and Death of Machines and Imaginaries: Conversations on Trains on EASTS Covers

1 Trains and Progresses Of all the beautiful covers that have graced EASTS, three in particular motivate this essay

Forum: Masked Societies in East Asia: A Forum on the Socio-Material History of Face Masks

From Hwangsa to COVID-19: The Rise of Mass Masking in South Korea

In the global response to the Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic, South Korea has often been hailed as one of...

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...

November 18, 2021

On Imitation to Innovation: The Dynamics of Korea's Technological Learning

How does a nation transform itself from an imitative one to an innovative one? This is a challenge that most...