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Victor Seow, Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia, Chicago: UCP, 2021. 376 pp. $40. ISBN: 9780226721996.

With felicitous prose and powerful images, Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia by Victor Seow...

Victor Seow, Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia, Chicago: UCP, 2021. 376 pp. $40. ISBN: 9780226721996.

Yan Liu, Healing with Poisons: Potent Medicines in Medieval China. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021. 276 pp. $99.00 hardcover, $30.00 paperback. ISBN: 9780295748993.

From the second half of the twentieth century onward, the more that modern biomedicine has developed, the more...

Yan Liu, Healing with Poisons: Potent Medicines in Medieval China. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021. 276 pp. $99.00 hardcover, $30.00 paperback. ISBN: 9780295748993.

Qi Han 韩琦, 通天之学:耶稣会士和天文学在中国的传播 [The Study of Communicating with Heaven: Jesuits and the Dissemination of Astronomy in China] Beijing, China: SDX Joint Publishing Company, 2018. 417 pp. RMB¥ 88.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9787108063229.

This book is written by Professor Qi Han of the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Professor Qi Han is...

Qi Han 韩琦, 通天之学:耶稣会士和天文学在中国的传播 [The Study of Communicating with Heaven: Jesuits and the Dissemination of Astronomy in China] Beijing, China: SDX Joint Publishing Company, 2018. 417 pp. RMB¥ 88.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9787108063229.

Sheila Jasanoff, The Ethics of Invention: Technology and the Human Future

A note on this review: starting with the invitation for a conventional book review, Xiaowei Huang, the author who panned

Sheila Jasanoff, The Ethics of Invention: Technology and the Human Future

Sonja M. Kim, Imperatives of Care: Women and Medicine in Colonial Korea. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2019. 240 pp. $80.00 hardcover, $28.00 paperback.

Imperatives of Care integrates years of Sonja Kim's research on gender and medicine in colonial Korea, but it is more

Sonja M. Kim, Imperatives of Care: Women and Medicine in Colonial Korea. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2019. 240 pp. $80.00 hardcover, $28.00 paperback.

Author’s Response to the Book Review of The Empty and the Full: Is It Possible to Explore the Limit of Language?

I want to thank my colleague, Andrea Bréard, for the time she spent reading and commenting. My experience of the editing

Author’s Response to the Book Review of The Empty and the Full: Is It Possible to Explore the Limit of Language?

Charlotte-V Pollet, The Empty and the Full: Li Ye and the Way of Mathematics. Geometrical Procedures by Sections of Areas. Singapore: World Scientific, 2020. 276 pp. GBP 85.00 hardcover. ISBN: 978-981-120-947-5.

The title of this book reminds me of a dish on the menu in one of my favorite restaurants: the "I cannot make up my mind

Charlotte-V Pollet, The Empty and the Full: Li Ye and the Way of Mathematics. Geometrical Procedures by Sections of Areas. Singapore: World Scientific, 2020. 276 pp. GBP 85.00 hardcover. ISBN: 978-981-120-947-5.

Susan Greenhalgh and Li Zhang, eds., Can Science and Technology Save China?

The editors argue that the concept of"governing through science* facilitates understandings of science and technology

Susan Greenhalgh and Li Zhang, eds., Can Science and Technology Save China?

Instrumental Lives: An Intimate Biography of an Indian Laboratory

Since the US launched its National Nanotechnology Initiative in 2000, the Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM)

Instrumental Lives: An Intimate Biography of an Indian Laboratory

Chuearok, Rangkai lae Rat Vetchakam: Prawatsat Kanphaet Samaimai nai Sangkhom Thai [Pathogen, the Body and Medical State: History of Modern Medicine in Thai Society]

In what way does a nation come into being by means of hygiene? And how can hygiene shape its people through historical

Chuearok, Rangkai lae Rat Vetchakam: Prawatsat Kanphaet Samaimai nai Sangkhom Thai [Pathogen, the Body and Medical State: History of Modern Medicine in Thai Society]