I spoke to Josh Edbrooke at National Taiwan Normal University's International Taiwan Studies Centre about my book, In the Global Vanguard: Agrarian Development and the Making of Modern Taiwan. Many thanks to Josh for the thoughtful questions and discussion audioboom.com/posts/879447...
A podcast on my book Island Tinkerers is available today. Thanks to senior programs manager Adrienne Wu at Global Taiwan Institute for arranging the interview and publishing the podcast! 華府的智庫「全球台灣研究中心」幫我做了一個關於我的新書以及台灣科技產業的軟實力的訪談，是智庫的經理吳至芳主持的「台灣沙龍」這個節目的最新一集喔，歡迎大家線上收聽！謝謝至芳！
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I think the rise of an anti covid vaccine movement in Japan and the rise of Sanseito requires an in depth studies. I’ll be interested to read scholarly studies on the history of contemporary vaccines in Japan, in relations to the rise of right wing populism. 1/
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Read Wayne Soon's review of Fighting for Health: Medicine in Cold War Southeast Asia Edited by C. Michele Thompson, Kathryn Sweet, and Michitake Aso
From the new issue of Technology & Culture, available at @projectmuse.bsky.social
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Woohoo, I have page proofs for my book!
Review in Technology and Culture of "Fighting for Health" by @waynesoon.bsky.social:
"In sum, this is an excellent volume that deserves to be widely read by scholars of the #ColdWar, military medicine, #healthcare, and (post)colonialism."
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Pleased to share my review in T&C on the edited volume on Fighting for Health: Medicine in Cold War Southeast Asia. @nuspress.bsky.social
I enjoyed reading the essays in the volume, and learned a lot from them.
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Ebook version of my 2020 book, Global Medicine in China: A Diasporic History is on sale at $16 from @stanfordpress.bsky.social Consider buying a copy!
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Pleased to share my interview with the excellent team at the Infectious Historians podcast.
I hope it will be useful for folks interested in incorporating the history of SARS and COVID in a non-western context in their classes!
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Pleased to be sharing my review essay in HSNS on “New Directions in Global Health Histories of China and Taiwan”. I reviewed Mary Brazelton, Rachel Core, Fang Xiaoping and Yi-Tang Lin’s monographs & identified key themes in global health histories.
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Both books reveal how Sichuan and Manchuria were places of deep meanings for their residents: from mountains to gravesites; from rivers to houses. Without wonders (Daston and Park), there cannot be science and technology. Yet beyond wonders, there cannot be order without meanings. 3/
Key takeaways: history of science and technology in East Asia should consider the broader meanings of geomancy, place, and religious beliefs as actors on the ground ; fengshui brought the state and society closer together in organic ways, despite the calamities that surrounded the Late Qing. 2/
Enjoyed reading Tristan Brown‘s book. Pairs well with Rogaski’s new book on Knowing Manchuria, which I enjoyed reading too. 1/ @tristangbrown.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social
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Thank you Dr. Hsieh for a kind review of my book in Asian Medicine!
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Read Rana Mitter’s piece in FP’s latest issue. I enjoyed it, but was also hoping that some of Sulmaan Wasif Khan’s insights in his recent book on US-China-Taiwan historical relations will make it more into the piece.
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Do folks know of any presses that are open to publishing shorter monographs, besides Columbia Shorts and Cambridge Elements? Thanks!
I had a lot of fun teaching the Geopolitics of Chips session in today's HUDT3001 class using Honghong Tinn's fantastic new book, Island Tinkerers.
I'm not sure whether my students understood the technical details I explained, but they recognize the centrality of high-end chips produced in Taiwan.
The Book Island Tinkerers. A book about technology in Taiwan.
An amazing book.
It's a great book!
AAHM Asia network breakfast meeting. Great to meet everyone! @aahmhistmed.bsky.social
Mohammad's article highlights the role of the “insurantial imaginary” as a condition that shaped the articulation of the sickly, idle and risky racial minorities within Singapore’s public health discourse on diabetes 6/
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Timothy Sim's article in the Bulletin of History of Medicine furthers this theme, but showing how coevolution of state and society further the party, but also public health's aim. Which circles back to Cherian's arguments. 5/
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Greg Clancey's excellent article reveals that public housing was central to organizing Singapore's health and ethnic politics, even as it reveals sites of resistance. 4/
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Sikko Visscher's book on how the party sought to tame the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce is one of the most understudied read, but it shows the promises and perils of collaboration. 3/
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Institutions and norms matter, and personality matters too. Dominance comes from sheer comfort and control for many, and not necessarily simply coercion and widespread ignorance. Cherian George's updated classic is a must-read. 2/
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With Singapore's election in two days time, a couple of academic readings to recommend on Sg.
Carl Trock's approach showed the impt of understanding the (post)colonial histories--control over raw materials & human resources were central themes of ruling authorities on the island 1/
