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In April 1936, the final section of the Canton-Hankow railway was completed, and with it a new age of national rice...

Who is best qualified to study the history of medicine? Physicians with technical training? Historians with a finer...

The difficulty surrounding historical studies of modern science in Asia, especially in East Asia, induces an impulse...

This volume is the latest in a spate of edited collections dealing with various aspects of public health in Asia.

Kuokuang Petrochemical's attempt to build its eighth naphtha-cracking plant has become one of Taiwan's most...

It is astonishing to see how widespread and important Information and Communication Technology like the Internet and...

"Even if his forecast had failed, we would not have blamed him" (43). These are the words of a person who had been...

Speaking of Epidemics in Chinese Medicine is the latest book by Marta Hanson, historian of Chinese science and...

As the title of its introduction implies, the ambition of Francesca Bray's new book is to demonstrate the "power of...

Going to the zoo has become such an ordinary ritual that we might wonder at a person who has never had the chance to...