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Statistical practices have often been assumed as routine and prosaic, if not entirely value-neutral, activities of...

Rice, Agriculture, and the Food Supply in Premodern Japan by the French scholar Charlotte von Verschuer is a...

In the last two decades, historians have studied critical social and cultural changes of the late Ming, from the...

Rarely is a moment more special in a scholar's career than the publication in one single volume of over a dozen...

This book is a collective biography of the Ōuchi group, Ōuchi Hyōe (1888–1980), and his five students, Arisawa Hiromi...

Post-Mao China has seen the embrace of a neoliberal market logic that has brought the objectification and...

During the Meiji Restoration (1868-1912), Japan's leaders encouraged the population to acquire modern knowledge from...

This book is one of the few ambitious works written by young Japanese sociologists of science and technology. Based...

On Earth Day 2011, Taiwan's president, Ma Ying-jeou, held a press conference. He stated that the Chinese Petroleum...

The English title of this book is slightly misleading. Despite its emphasis on social risks, the main discussion of...