Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/18752160.2022.2088919
Hailing Zhao, R. Douglas-Jones
Abstract This article focuses on data workers in Shenzhen, who, since 2013, have been recruited to fill positions in the city’s Weaving the Net program (zhiwang gongcheng, 織網工程). The program, furthering both the expansion of city gridding management techniques and local experiments with China’s Social Credit system, is designed to generate a daily set of data to inform the city’s “Smart Brain”, and is a core way of managing the city’s “floating population”. In this article, we approach the grid management of Shenzhen and its connection with histories of Chinese social control through data workers themselves. We argue that data workers expand our understanding both the integration of human-technological assemblages into smart city initiatives and the labor of data generation for programs of state social control. Extending STS approaches to smart city infrastructure, we use the figure of the data worker to the present both familiar and distinctive characteristics of Chinese Smart City initiatives.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/18752160.2022.2152258
W. Kuo
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/18752160.2022.2113680
Taylor Coplen
This book review, part of a featured piece in our thematic issue, titled “Challenging and Reinvigorating China’s ‘Mr. Science’”, should have been published in Volume 16.3 but has been omitted due to an editorial misunderstanding. Readers who enjoy this review can also browse this issue for a critical assessment, from an STS perspective, on how science and innovation are debated and practiced in China in the twentieth century. —EASTS Editorial Office
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/18752160.2022.2148047
Stephan Kloos
Academic scholarship on Chinese medicine is well known for its excellent work on the medical theory, ancient and modern history, contemporary practice, education, politics, reinvention and transformations of medicine in China (e.g. Farquhar 1994; Goldschmidt 2008; Lei 2014; Scheid 2002; Taylor 2005; Unschuld 1985; Zhan 2009). Yet virtually none of this work explores the large and powerful industry that Chinese medicine has become over the past three decades, even while serious scholarship on the much smaller Ayurveda, Sowa Rigpa, Japanese and Korean herbal medicine industries has opened important new perspectives on contemporary Asian medicines (e.g. Coderey and Pordié 2020; Kloos and Blaikie 2022; Pordié and Hardon 2015). Breaking completely new ground within the field of Chinese medicine studies, Liz Chee’s outstanding bookMao’s Bestiary finally puts an end to this unsatisfactory situation. It provides nothing less than the first in-depth study of the transformation of Chinese medicine(s) into a modern pharmaceutical industry, which alone makes this book a must-read for anyone with a serious interest in Chinese medicine. The elegance of Mao’s Bestiary, however, lies in how Chee accomplishes this feat, and the different audiences she manages to bring together in doing so. First and foremost, Chee analytically connects her account of Chinese medicine to recent scholarship on Asian medical industries elsewhere, which constitutes an exception in an otherwise relatively self-contained field of study. Indeed, the concepts of reformulation regimes (Pordié and Gaudillière 2014), pharmaceuticalization (Kloos 2017), and Asian industrial medicines (Pordié and Hardon 2015) fundamentally inform this book, while also opening Chinese medicine for comparison across different Asian medical contexts. Second, the study’s main focus on animal-based
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Pub Date : 2022-08-09DOI: 10.1080/18752160.2022.2071191
R. Padilla
Abstract In the latter half of the nineteenth century the Japanese army medical bureau struggled to prevent beriberi in its ranks. In Japan, traditional medicine effectively treated beriberi, a nutritional deficiency illness, with food therapies. The army medical bureau, in line with western medical practice, viewed the disease as microbial in origin. Army leadership was driven, in part, by a desire to be seen as advanced and civilized by western nations, and demonstrating sound western medical protocols served this purpose. By the mid -1880s unit level medical officers adopted a mixed staple of rice and barley, which was a common food practice in rural households. This modification provided the necessary vitamin B1 in the soldiers' daily diet to prevent the onset of beriberi. The leadership of the army medical bureau allowed this dietary change on an ad hoc basis, but during times of war reinstated the official white rice staple. During wartime the army repeatedly suffered high rates of beriberi.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-15DOI: 10.1080/18752160.2022.2083747
Caragh Brosnan, F. Collyer, K. Willis, A. Zhang
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Pub Date : 2022-07-15DOI: 10.1080/18752160.2022.2084581
S. Manickam
Abstract This article focuses on the life of medical doctor Kōzō Andō (安藤公三) and his family as My word count now says it is 198 words Japanese citizens in the British Empire, medical practitioners within inter-imperial biomedical frameworks and as intermediaries of Japanese imperialism during the Japanese occupation of Southeast Asia in World War II. The Andō family came to settle on the Malay peninsula in the late nineteenth century which was under the control of the British but still part of Japan’s nan’yō imaginary. Both Kōzō Andō and his younger brother Jun’ichiro (安藤純一郎) were trained as medical doctors at the King Edward VII Medical College in Singapore, one of the well-regarded training institutions for medicine in the British Empire and Southeast Asia at the time. When Japan invaded Malaya, Kōzō Andō was made Chief Medical Officer of Syonan (Singapore), a position which he held until his retirement and return to Japan in 1943. The life of Kōzō Andō points to his ambiguous situation in Malaya under British and Japanese empires due to his positionality as Japanese, as part of a larger Asian racial category in Malaya, and as a medical doctor in an inter-imperial setting.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/18752160.2022.2096816
Jongsik Christian Yi
{"title":"Knowledge Production in Mao-era China: Learning from the Masses","authors":"Jongsik Christian Yi","doi":"10.1080/18752160.2022.2096816","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18752160.2022.2096816","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45255,"journal":{"name":"East Asian Science Technology and Society-An International Journal","volume":"18 1","pages":"445 - 447"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80302168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/18752160.2022.2100088
Hyungsub Choi
{"title":"Vernacular Industrialism in China: Local Innovation and Translated Technologies in the Making of a Cosmetics Empire, 1900–1940","authors":"Hyungsub Choi","doi":"10.1080/18752160.2022.2100088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18752160.2022.2100088","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45255,"journal":{"name":"East Asian Science Technology and Society-An International Journal","volume":"36 1","pages":"448 - 451"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74384136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/18752160.2022.2106676
Wen-hsin Yeh
This set of essays accomplishes an exceptional feat in the historical studies of the May Fourth Movement: they open up new lines of questioning, injecting new energy into this mature fi eld while invigorating the study of science. And they do so from two different directions.
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