Project MUSE®: East Asian Science, Technology and Society: an International Journal - Latest Articles
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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in East Asian Science, Technology and Society: an International Journal.daily12026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 1 (2007) through current issueLatest Articles: East Asian Science, Technology and Society: an International JournalTWOProject MUSE®East Asian Science, Technology and Society: an International Journal1875-21521875-2160Latest articles in East Asian Science, Technology and Society: an International Journal. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Editor’s Note
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/780414
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Following the announcement by the WHO in March 2020 of the COVID-19 pandemic, the virus seems have created a pandemic-like phenomenon in the academic world. As this issue is being produced, we are witnessing an explosion of papers, reports, workshops, and even conferences appearing with the term COVID-19 to be found some-where in the title, abstract, or text. The pandemic has had transnational impacts, with governing measures being called for from different organizations and countries. In academia, its impact crosses disciplines. The emerging scholarship consists not only of basic research into the virus, studies of its mechanisms of spread, its treatments, and so on; it’s also rousing the humanities and social
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/543/image/coversmallEditor’s Note2021-01-29text/htmlen-USEditor’s Note2021-01-292021TWOProject MUSE®184212026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002021-01-29The Politics of Science and Undone Protection in the “Samsung Leukemia” Case
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/780415
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On a cold day in December 2013, we went to watch the screening of Another Promise at the Peace Hall of Kyung Hee University in Seoul, where that commercial film was to be revealed to the public for the first time. Reporters flocked to cover this controversial movie, which was sponsored collectively by around eight thousand ordinary Korean citizens. Based on a true story, the movie shows how an ordinary taxi driver is transformed into an ardent activist who disseminates the truth surrounding his daughter’s tragic death. To support her family, Yumi Hwang, a young woman in her twenties, goes to work for Samsung Semiconductor, a major component of Samsung Electronics. She eventually dies from leukemia (in real life
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/543/image/coversmallThe Politics of Science and Undone Protection in the “Samsung Leukemia” Case2021-01-29text/htmlen-USThe Politics of Science and Undone Protection in the “Samsung Leukemia” Case2021-01-292021TWOProject MUSE®1602752026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002021-01-29Reformulation and Appropriation of Traditional Knowledge in Industrial Ayurveda: The Trajectory of Jeevani
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/780416
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One day in October 2012, we entered the premises of the Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute (JNTBGRI) in Kerala. We came to meet with senior researchers and other staff members of the institute in an attempt to better understand how this state academic institute had participated in the invention of a product called Jeevani, an antifatigue and rejuvenating preparation sold by an Ayurvedic firm, Arya Vaidya Pharmacy (AVP). This drug is an intriguing therapeutic entity. It is registered as an Ayurvedic proprietary medicine, which means that it is marketed under a name registered as a trademark. This form of intellectual property is based on the recognition that this drug is not a
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/543/image/coversmallReformulation and Appropriation of Traditional Knowledge in Industrial Ayurveda: The Trajectory of Jeevani2021-01-29text/htmlen-USReformulation and Appropriation of Traditional Knowledge in Industrial Ayurveda: The Trajectory of Jeevani2021-01-292021TWOProject MUSE®1174652026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002021-01-29Invulnerable Facts: Infant Mortality and Development in Nationalist Gansu
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/780417
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“Connections are blocked; culture lags behind.” Technical experts, bureaucrats, and health workers, both Chinese and foreign, repeated versions of this phrase to describe Gansu from the 1920s to the 1940s. Elites in the East had long viewed this ethnically diverse border zone in northwest China as peripheral to Confucian civilization, even as conquest and trade had pulled Gansu toward eastern China during the past few centuries. From the late Qing period (1644–1912), Gansu endured recurring conflict and famine (Lipman 1984, 1988). As semicolonial capitalism deepened inequalities between the coast and the interior, impressions of Gansu as a barren wasteland only intensified. By the mid-1930s, the refrain that
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/543/image/coversmallInvulnerable Facts: Infant Mortality and Development in Nationalist Gansu2021-01-29text/htmlen-USInvulnerable Facts: Infant Mortality and Development in Nationalist Gansu2021-01-292021TWOProject MUSE®1283412026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002021-01-29From SARS to COVID-19: Rethinking Global Health Lessons from Taiwan
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/780418
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Taiwan has been successful in suppressing the highly infectious Coronavirus Disease 19 (COVID-19) despite its proximity to Wuhan, China, where the coronavirus first emerged in December 2019. Taiwan recorded 517 coronavirus cases and 7 deaths in contrast to the similarly sized population of Australia, which confirmed 27,133 cases and 894 deaths as of 3 October 2020 (Johns Hopkins n.d.). Journalists across the world have attributed Taiwan’s success against COVID-19 to its experience fighting Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in 2003 (Fortune 2020; CNN 2020). “The secret of Taiwan’s success,” a Turkish journalist argued, “lies in the painful memories of the 2003 outbreak” of SARS (Anadolu Agency 2020). Yet
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/543/image/coversmallFrom SARS to COVID-19: Rethinking Global Health Lessons from Taiwan2021-01-29text/htmlen-USFrom SARS to COVID-19: Rethinking Global Health Lessons from Taiwan2021-01-292021TWOProject MUSE®613302026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002021-01-29Contact Tracing and COVID-19: The South Korean Context for Public Health Enforcement
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/780419
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Although considerable debate remains as to the etiology of the COVID-19 outbreak, there has been a fair degree of consensus regarding the approaches taken by certain nations with respect to treatment policy, with positive attention associated primarily with the nations of East (Taiwan, South Korea) and Southeast Asia (Vietnam). Regrettably, many of the accounts appearing early in 2020 tended to rely on broad cultural explanations—including generic labels such as “Confucian,” “authoritarian,” and “conformity”—to explain a diverse set of complicated historical developments, specific to regions and nation-states with distinct historical trajectories (Escobar 2020).1 As time has passed, these accounts have provided
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/543/image/coversmallContact Tracing and COVID-19: The South Korean Context for Public Health Enforcement2021-01-29text/htmlen-USContact Tracing and COVID-19: The South Korean Context for Public Health Enforcement2021-01-292021TWOProject MUSE®440552026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002021-01-29Dialogue across Borders: Angela Su’s Chimeric Antibodies
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/780420
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Born and raised in Hong Kong, Angela Su is adept at a variety of art forms, including ink drawing, human hair embroidery, video art, animation and performance. Graduating from the University of Toronto with her undergraduate training in biochemistry, and then from the Ontario College of Art and Design University with another degree in visual arts, Su’s works have been shaped by the place where she grew up. She transplants a lush, Gothic style of pessimism into a city where people have struggled for survival alongside its hard-earned prosperity. In 2018, Su was commissioned by the Wellcome Trust to create art exploring the complexity of infectious diseases in the transregional project “Contagious Cities.” Her
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/543/image/coversmallDialogue across Borders: Angela Su’s Chimeric Antibodies2021-01-29text/htmlen-USDialogue across Borders: Angela Su’s Chimeric Antibodies2021-01-292021TWOProject MUSE®120522026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002021-01-29Duke as Spine
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/780421
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Following former associate Warwick Anderson’s account of the beginning of EASTS’ partnership with Duke University Press (DUP) (“STS with East Asian Characteristics?,” in issue 14.1), in this current issue marking the end of DUP’s excellent service we are delighted to invite our former editor-in-chief Chia-Ling Wu to share her experience of working with Duke Press. A founding member of EASTS, the time that Chia-Ling spent with our journal overlapped with DUP’s time as our partner. We hope that with her considerate and personal touch readers can better appreciate this productive collaboration and the achievement it has begotten.The word Duke started to appear in a tiny 8-point font on the spine of EASTS in 2011.
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/543/image/coversmallDuke as Spine2021-01-29text/htmlen-USDuke as Spine2021-01-292021TWOProject MUSE®87292026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002021-01-29News and Events
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/780422
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After an unforgettable ten-year partnership, Duke University Press (DUP) will this year finish its publishing contract with EASTS’ sponsor, the Ministry of Science and Technology. Starting with volume 5, DUP became our publishing partner in 2011. Together we accomplished forty spectacular issues (5, no .1, through 14, no. 4) that transformed EASTS into a more interdisciplinary, transnational, and competitive journal. These efforts also resulted in our winning the Society for Social Studies of Science Infrastructure Prize in 2018. Utilizing its specialization in Asian and science studies, DUP assisted us with creating visibility in the academic world, notably inclusion by Clarivate Analytics in their Social Sciences
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/543/image/coversmallNews and Events2021-01-29text/htmlen-USNews and Events2021-01-292021TWOProject MUSE®46562026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002021-01-29Virulent Zones: Animal Disease and Global Health at China’s Pandemic Epicenter by Lyle Fearnley (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/780423
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Lyle Fearnley’s Virulent Zones: Animal Disease and Global Health at China’s Pandemic Epicenter offers a gripping anthropological account of the search for the origins of influenza pandemics in China. As an outgrowth of the author’s field studies in Jiangxi’s Poyang Lake and in Beijing, this book focuses on the “displacement” of the widespread scholarly and media hypothesis that southern China is the influenza epicenter. (Here, “displacement” refers to unexpected changes to scientists’ research objects, whereby “epistemological assumptions were put in motion, experimental systems were adjusted, and norms of scientific practice were modified” [19]). This displacement can be understood on three levels. First
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/543/image/coversmallVirulent Zones: Animal Disease and Global Health at China’s Pandemic Epicenter by Lyle Fearnley (review)2021-01-29text/htmlen-USVirulent Zones: Animal Disease and Global Health at China’s Pandemic Epicenter by Lyle Fearnley (review)2021-01-292021TWOProject MUSE®101262026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002021-01-29Animals through Chinese History: Earliest Times to 1911 ed. by Roel Sterckx, Martina Siebert, and Dagmar Schäfer (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/780424
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Since at least the 1990s, the topic of animals has been receiving attention from scholars wishing to explore the relationships between these and human beings in such fields as ecology, archeology, zoology, literature, and history. English-language scholarship in the humanities has explored human-animal relationships in terms of health, animal husbandry, domestication, food, and public hygiene (i.e., William H. McNeill, Virginia DeJohn Anderson, Richard W. Bulliet, Madeleine Ferrières, and Martha Few and Zeb Tortorici). Worthy of special note is JAPANimals: History and Culture in Japan’s Animal Life, edited by G. M. Pflugfelder, and B. L. Walker: this pioneering 2005 work addresses animals’ roles in Japanese
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/543/image/coversmallAnimals through Chinese History: Earliest Times to 1911 ed. by Roel Sterckx, Martina Siebert, and Dagmar Schäfer (review)2021-01-29text/htmlen-USAnimals through Chinese History: Earliest Times to 1911 ed. by Roel Sterckx, Martina Siebert, and Dagmar Schäfer (review)2021-01-292021TWOProject MUSE®102242026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002021-01-29Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India by Lilly Irani (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/780425
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In 2017, the South Korean government presented a policy slogan “I-Korea 4.0” based on its foundational aims of “intelligence,” “innovation,” “inclusion,” and “interaction.” According to policy makers, the policy brand is a combination of four values that begin with the same syllable, meaning “human (人)” and pronounced “in” in Korean, emphasizing that it will lead to a fourth industrial revolution through human-centered innovative growth. Reflecting on past mistakes in neglecting to address social problems or improve the quality of people’s lives due to the pursuit of uneven economic growth, the government vowed to “take the fruits of economic growth to a ‘human-centered economy’ where all people enjoy the fruits of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/543/image/coversmallChasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India by Lilly Irani (review)2021-01-29text/htmlen-USChasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India by Lilly Irani (review)2021-01-292021TWOProject MUSE®161262026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002021-01-29Circulation and Governance of Asian Medicine ed. by Céline Coderey and Laurent Pordié (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/780426
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It is surely one of the paradoxes of medical anthropology that the industrial expansion of Asian medicines—a phenomenon of global scale and relevance by any measure— has coincided with a diminishing academic interest in Asian medicines, as the discipline at large has shifted its focus to mainly biomedical topics during the recent decades (Scherz 2018). Yet while research on Asian medicines may not have increased in quantity, it has certainly gained in quality, with a steady stream of important publications carrying forward—and, crucially, rethinking—Charles Leslie’s field-defining legacy (Leslie 1976). Céline Coderey and Laurent Pordié’s Circulation and Governance of Asian Medicine, the product of a
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/543/image/coversmallCirculation and Governance of Asian Medicine ed. by Céline Coderey and Laurent Pordié (review)2021-01-29text/htmlen-USCirculation and Governance of Asian Medicine ed. by Céline Coderey and Laurent Pordié (review)2021-01-292021TWOProject MUSE®365932026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002021-01-29