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Apr 28, 2025

A Site of Bounded Imaginaries: Local Narratives of Buan after Protests against a Nuclear Waste Repository

This paper examines a historical case where local residents in South Korea had been alienated from the...
A Site of Bounded Imaginaries: Local Narratives of Buan after Protests against a Nuclear Waste Repository
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Apr 28, 2025

The Cybernetic Writing Pad: Information Technology and the Retheorization of the Chinese Script, 1977-1986

This study examines the script crisis that emerged in China during the late 1970s and early 1980s, when the old...
The Cybernetic Writing Pad: Information Technology and the Retheorization of the Chinese Script, 1977-1986
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Apr 28, 2025

China’s Detonation-driven Shock Tube Wind Tunnels: A Case Study of Transnational Science in Aeronautics during the Cold War

Abstract From the perspective of the history of technology, this paper reviews the development of a hypersonic wind...
China’s Detonation-driven Shock Tube Wind Tunnels: A Case Study of Transnational Science in Aeronautics during the Cold War
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Apr 28, 2025

Racializing Chōsenjin: Science and Biological Speculations in Colonial Korea

Recent literature on the history of medicine in colonial Korea has revealed that Japanese medical scientists studied...
Racializing Chōsenjin: Science and Biological Speculations in Colonial Korea
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Apr 28, 2025

Bioethics between Imaginary and Reality: Tracing Science Fiction and Its Shaping of Transplant Medicine Protocols in Japan

By extending the late Osamu Kanamori’s notion of science fiction (sci-fi) as it “re-articulate[s] various issues that...
Bioethics between Imaginary and Reality: Tracing Science Fiction and Its Shaping of Transplant Medicine Protocols in Japan
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Apr 28, 2025

Consumer Movements Confronted by Naturalness in Gene Editing in Japan

This study describes consumer opposition toward genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in Japan in response to gene...
Consumer Movements Confronted by Naturalness in Gene Editing in Japan
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Apr 28, 2025

The Alpha Human versus the Korean: Figuring the Human through Technoscientific Networks

What does the human look like in South Korea? This article identifies two different figurations of the human in...
The Alpha Human versus the Korean: Figuring the Human through Technoscientific Networks
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Apr 28, 2025

Hygiene, Medicine, and Modernity in Korea, 1876–1910

Modernity in relation to medicine and the body is central to discussions on modernity in Korea. I have chosen to...
Hygiene, Medicine, and Modernity in Korea, 1876–1910
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Apr 28, 2025

Prehistory of Aadhaar: Body, Law, and Technology as Postcolonial Assemblage

This article seeks to go beyond the binary of elite concerns over privacy versus subaltern desires for recognition to...
Prehistory of Aadhaar: Body, Law, and Technology as Postcolonial Assemblage
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Apr 28, 2025

Craft Knowledge at the Interface of Written and Oral Cultures

How did artisans in late imperial and Republican China reproduce technical knowledge, what role did writing play in...
Craft Knowledge at the Interface of Written and Oral Cultures
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