Cover Image: The image used for the cover is from the "Taipei Robot Man 2.0: Infodemic”, a collaborative piece of site-specific art by Shua-Yin Chang (張碩伊), Hsien-Yu Cheng (鄭先喻) and Dino (廖銘和). Photo credit Chun-Teng Chu (朱駿騰). In Taipei Robot Man 2.0: Infodemic (exhibited in TheCube Project Space from September 19 to November 1, 2020) the artists utilize digital technologies to transform online trolls and fake news into creative materials for kinetic sculptures and noise music. As stated in the introduction, this work "aims to explore how information is manufactured, processed, produced, exchanged, circulated and disseminated in the era of the pandemic”. Cover Design: Awai.
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Forum: Masked Societies in East Asia: A Forum on the Socio-Material History of Face Masks
From Hwangsa to COVID-19: The Rise of Mass Masking in South Korea
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Editorial note
Editor’s Note
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Reviewers of EASTS
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COVID-19 Exceptionalism: Explaining South Korean Responses
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Some Elements of the Regime of Management of Irrelevance in Science. Alguns elementos do regime de gestão da irrelevância na ciência. Algunos elementos del régimen de gestión de la irrelevancia en la ciencia.
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A History of Japanese Follow-up Surveys of Children Conceived through Artificial Insemination by Donor: The Evidence of “Superior” Children and Positive Eugenics
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Forum: Masked Societies in East Asia: A Forum on the Socio-Material History of Face Masks
Introduction
Jaehwan Hyun
Forum: Masked Societies in East Asia: A Forum on the Socio-Material History of Face Masks
Plague Masks in Japan: Reflecting on the 1899 German Debates and the Suffering of Patients/Doctors in Osaka
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Forum: Masked Societies in East Asia: A Forum on the Socio-Material History of Face Masks
An Unchallengeable Value: Foreign Physicians, Chinese Medical Elites, and Normalizing Masks in Semi-Colonial China
Meng Zhang
Forum: Masked Societies in East Asia: A Forum on the Socio-Material History of Face Masks
Some Reflections on the History of Masked Societies in East Asia
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Mary Augusta Brazelton
Forum: Masked Societies in East Asia: A Forum on the Socio-Material History of Face Masks
COVID Mask Wearing: Identity and Materiality
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Between Art, Science, and Queer Ecology: A Conversation Between Kuang-Yi Ku and Liang-Kai Yu
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News and Events
Wen-Hua Kuo
book review
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.
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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
book review
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.
Ji-Young Park
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Sarah Ferber, Nicola J. Marks, and Vera Mackie, IVF and Assisted Reproduction: A Global History. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. 361 pp. €77.99 hardback, ISBN: 9789811578946.
