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Chinese medical history is a booming academic field, and the subfield of women's medicine is flourishing. Within the...

For years now, historians of science and technology in Korea have shied away from the late nineteenth to early...

Many scholars regard Josephine Chuen-juei Ho and Ying-Bin Ning as the most outspoken and significant theorists of...

In 1996, the Japanese government finally repealed its 1931 Leprosy Prevention Law. This law had required the...

Producing any account of the rise of the modem Chinese coal industry is a challenge, as the process it involved was...

This ambitious volume examines the complex histories of rice in the early modern and modem periods. Rice is not only...

Thanks to three scholarly developments—the emergence of France's Annales School of historiography in the 1930s, the...

In Gaihözu, professional geographer Shigeru Kobayashi depicts the history of Japan's map-making activity deployed...

It is not difficult to find metaphors for scientific research as being parallel to crime investigation, whether in...

In recent decades, research on environmental issues has drawn considerable attention from scholars working in various...