Professor James Lin from the University of Washington shares the backstory to his latest book and demonstrates how Taiwan's early development missions impacted Taiwan's own population in ways ...

The minor opposition party Sanseito, which is projected to capture double-digit seats in the July 20 Upper House election, has muted some of its conspiracy theories.

Examines the transformation of vernacular knowledge during a pivotal period of modern Chinese history, 1894 to 1954.   In The Politics of Common Reading, Joan Judge examines an era of modern Chinese h...

Marian Devotion and Plague in Late Medieval Italy with Bianca Lopez Episode 134 - March 7, 2025 Bianca Lopez (Southern Methodist University) joins the...

If you dropped in to China at any point in its modern history and tried to project 20 years into the future, you would almost certainly end up getting it wrong. In 1900, no one serving in the late Qin...

This article highlights the role of the “insurantial imaginary”, defined as a social context in which profitable, useful and necessary uses can be found for insurance technology, as a condition tha...

This article provides historical context for Singapore’s fabled preoccupation with cleanliness. Beyond the legacy of British colonialism and post-colonial conce...

This book describes the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce's changing relationship with the state and with businesses in the region. Some of the wealthiest and most influential businessmen i...

by Cherian George, Air-Conditioned Nation Revisited is an anthology of essays on Singapore politics. It draws upon his influential collection Singapore: The Air-Conditioned Nation (2000), on the count...

This volume examines Singapore’s culture of control, exploring the city-state’s colonial heritage as well as the forces that have helped to mould its current social landscape. Taking a comparative app...

Access to clinics has only gotten patchier as attention to the disease has faded.

Can you buy dried seaweed or imported cat food in bulk? Devoted shoppers have been trying to find out.

Longlisted for the 2025 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award<br /><br />One of <em>The New Yorker</em>'s 'Essential Reads' of 2024 • One of NPR's 'Books We Love' for 2024<br /><br />A brilli...

Probes the relationship between the immigration and health care systems in the United States.   For the roughly ten million undocumented immigrants living in the United States, federal health care cov...

Five years after the pandemic began, the neurocognitive effects of long covid are numerous and troubling. And some may extend to people who quickly recovered.

‘A sea of blood and hate’: Mass mobilization of emotion in China’s Anti-narcotics Campaign, 1949–1952

HSTM Asst. Professor and CBI Affiliated Historian Honghong Tinn will be presenting a talk on her most recent book, Island Tinkerers: Innovation and Transformation in the Making of Taiwan's Computing I...