This paper applies Carl Schmitt’s katechon—the restrainer of doom in Christian eschatology – to ideas about population and development in Cold War Taiwan. Focusing on the authoritarian regime’s all...

This chapter studies Space Warrior (taikong zhanshi, 1984–87), a television series produced by the Chinese Television System (CTS) in Taiwan, and juxtaposes a

This paper investigates the Chinese American Chemical Society (CACS) as an organisation of the scientific diaspora at the end of the Cold War. Established in 1981 by mostly first-generation immigra...

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In the past three decades specialty coffees have gained greater visibility in the high-end consumer marketplace. These coffees include Arabica varieties grown in northern Thailand, the borderlands ...

Published in East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal (Vol. 19, No. 1, 2025)

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