This essay, written from the vantage point of a historian specialized in early modern Japan, asks if and in what capacity the history of knowledge offers an advantage for our understanding of the pas...

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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