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Malaria, one of the oldest diseases in human history, has attracted the interest of many medical historians. However...

Traditional historiography, which has always emphasized social phenomena and insisted on a stark dichotomy between...

As a book of popular history, “Power Up Taiwan” indeed brought out the fun side of general history writing. The...

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In 1996, the Japanese government finally repealed its 1931 Leprosy Prevention Law.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...