In the fabulous volume edited by Sophia Staite, I wrote about an obscure but fascinating Taiwan-made tokusatsu series and how it reflects the ambivalence of justice in the final days of martial law.
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003661269-11
Just read CS Song's Third Eye Theology. Really drew me to contextual theology and Church's engagement with third-worldism in the 70s!
Monitor display of Northern Ryukyu Islands, Japan and coral bleaching alert area level 4 (high). Sea surface temperature anomaly is relatively high.
People looking down at the coral health monitor at ground level and looking up at video installation of "CORAL SONIC RESILIENCE." In the foreground is a solar-powered device that was part of Marco Barotti's acoustic intervention.
Sounds of healthy reefs can help corals grow! ๐ถ๐ชธ Reclaiming '๐ขs All the Way Down' Working Group @mpiwg.bsky.social visited media artist Marco Barotti's exhibit "Beyond Us" @ berlinscienceweek.com/exhibition-beyond-us ๆฅๆฌใฎ็ๆงใCoral Sonic Resilienceใ2026ๅนด2ๆ13-15ๆฅใพใงใDIGSHIBUYAใงๅฑ็คบใใใไบๅฎใงใใ #ecology #marine
Glad to publish with @shacorg.bsky.social on the Chinese American Chemical Society and science diplomacy in the 1970s-80s
Very grateful for the generous financial & research support of @sciencehistory.org
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Printed copies of Everlasting Flowers are gorgeous! But the digital version is #openaccess for anyone to read: brill.com/display/titl....
A book presentation takes place at the KB in The Hague on 3 December. You are warmly invited! To register: tickets.kb.nl/nl-NL/Show/D...
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Just published this article on how government tried to reduce "wasteful festivals" in postwar #Taiwan
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New article on the Golden Triangle and the legacy of development-as-counterinsurgency @anu-chl.bsky.social
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Was in New Zealand last month for the #ICHST. The paper on rodent control in Cold War Taiwan is now part of the special issue proposal for BJHS theme!
Glad to present at the World Congress of Taiwan Studies ๐
Great commentary by @hung.bio and Po-hsun!
Perhaps biology is not fair. We need generosity and inclusiveness instead.
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My talk on rodent control in Taiwan is now available online ๐
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in the fabulous anthology *Medicine on a Larger Scale: Global Histories of Social Medicine*, edited by Warwick Anderson, Jeremy A. Greene, and Ann Kweim Lie. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025). The whole volume is #OpenAccess
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Will give a talk at ่ฟๅฒๆ on 27 May ๐
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Recently I'm writing about a demographer who was among the first postwar student sent from Taiwan to Princeton under Rockefeller Foundation grant. Just realized that the person (98 yrs old!) is willing to have an interview. Has the rare moment when a historical figure comes alive ๐คฏ๐คฏ
I'll talk about rodent control in postwar #Taiwan tomorrow
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