I spoke to Josh Edbrooke at National Taiwan Normal University's International Taiwan Studies Centre about my book, In the Global Vanguard: Agrarian Development and the Making of Modern Taiwan. Many thanks to Josh for the thoughtful questions and discussion audioboom.com/posts/879447...

A podcast on my book Island Tinkerers is available today. Thanks to senior programs manager Adrienne Wu at Global Taiwan Institute for arranging the interview and publishing the podcast! 華府的智庫「全球台灣研究中心」幫我做了一個關於我的新書以及台灣科技產業的軟實力的訪談，是智庫的經理吳至芳主持的「台灣沙龍」這個節目的最新一集喔，歡迎大家線上收聽！謝謝至芳！ mailchi.mp/globaltaiwan...

I think the rise of an anti covid vaccine movement in Japan and the rise of Sanseito requires an in depth studies. I’ll be interested to read scholarly studies on the history of contemporary vaccines in Japan, in relations to the rise of right wing populism. 1/ www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/artic...

Read Wayne Soon's review of Fighting for Health: Medicine in Cold War Southeast Asia Edited by C. Michele Thompson, Kathryn Sweet, and Michitake Aso From the new issue of Technology & Culture, available at @projectmuse.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Woohoo, I have page proofs for my book!

Review in Technology and Culture of "Fighting for Health" by @waynesoon.bsky.social: "In sum, this is an excellent volume that deserves to be widely read by scholars of the #ColdWar, military medicine, #healthcare, and (post)colonialism." Read: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Pleased to share my review in T&C on the edited volume on Fighting for Health: Medicine in Cold War Southeast Asia. @nuspress.bsky.social I enjoyed reading the essays in the volume, and learned a lot from them. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Looking forward to Joan Judge’s forthcoming new book. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Ebook version of my 2020 book, Global Medicine in China: A Diasporic History is on sale at $16 from @stanfordpress.bsky.social Consider buying a copy! www.sup.org/books/asian-...

Pleased to share my interview with the excellent team at the Infectious Historians podcast. I hope it will be useful for folks interested in incorporating the history of SARS and COVID in a non-western context in their classes! infectioushistorians.com/2025/05/09/c...

Pleased to be sharing my review essay in HSNS on “New Directions in Global Health Histories of China and Taiwan”. I reviewed Mary Brazelton, Rachel Core, Fang Xiaoping and Yi-Tang Lin’s monographs & identified key themes in global health histories. online.ucpress.edu/hsns/article...

Enjoyed reading Tristan Brown‘s book. Pairs well with Rogaski’s new book on Knowing Manchuria, which I enjoyed reading too. 1/ @tristangbrown.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social

Thank you Dr. Hsieh for a kind review of my book in Asian Medicine! brill.com/view/journal...

Read Rana Mitter’s piece in FP’s latest issue. I enjoyed it, but was also hoping that some of Sulmaan Wasif Khan’s insights in his recent book on US-China-Taiwan historical relations will make it more into the piece. www.foreignaffairs.com/china/once-a...

Do folks know of any presses that are open to publishing shorter monographs, besides Columbia Shorts and Cambridge Elements? Thanks!

I had a lot of fun teaching the Geopolitics of Chips session in today's HUDT3001 class using Honghong Tinn's fantastic new book, Island Tinkerers. I'm not sure whether my students understood the technical details I explained, but they recognize the centrality of high-end chips produced in Taiwan.

An amazing book.

AAHM Asia network breakfast meeting. Great to meet everyone! @aahmhistmed.bsky.social

With Singapore's election in two days time, a couple of academic readings to recommend on Sg. Carl Trock's approach showed the impt of understanding the (post)colonial histories--control over raw materials & human resources were central themes of ruling authorities on the island 1/

Anna Shields and I have organized the first China-Princeton Digital Humanities workshop! This week-long workshop on the digital humanities for Chinese studies will be held in person at Princeton University, June 16th to 20th! chinesedh2025.eas.princeton.edu

Photos from talks at Luther College in Iowa (Wednesday), w/my host & the great poster another undergrad made for the event & at U of Minnesota (Thursday, photo t by @waynesoon.bsky.social), also spoke at Carleton (Tuesday), introduced there by Tun Myint (a local prof & someone I profile in my book)

@jwassers.bsky.social at UMN!

Congratulations @jamestwotree.bsky.social! Looking forward to reading this very important book!

I-mei, Wei-chuan foods, and Taiwanese food ind. are probably going to do very well in the short term; predict a surging export to the US, esp. to Asian supermarkets and restaurants stateside with the way the tariffs are structured. #surging www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/0...

Really enjoy Sunil Amrith’s new book (saw it in Barnes and Nobles) and I like how he integrated his observations growing up in Singapore in the book. China, India, Egypt, US, and Southeast Asia features prominently. wwnorton.com/books/978132...

Looking forward to @jwassers.bsky.social's talk @umn-tc-aaup.bsky.social.

Beatrix Hoffman's New Book. Heard her @aahmhistmed.bsky.social keynote, and glad to see that the book is out! "Borders of Care Immigrants, Migrants, and the Fight for Health Care in the United States" (hopkinspress.bsky.social, 2025) press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Tsai Ming-Liang Vive L Amour at the Walker Art Center today walkerart.org/calendar/202...

Best and clearest article on Long Covid in a while. www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...

Enjoy reading Thomas Chan’s new article on rallies, emotions, and propangada against drug users as a form of state building in early PRC. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Hear Honghong Tinn’s virtual talk tomorrow (2/25 2 pm CT)! cse.umn.edu/cbi/events/i...

Thrilled my tremendous HSTM & CBI, U. of Minnesota colleague Honghong Tinn will give a CBI lecture from her incredible new book Island Tinkerers on History of Computing in Taiwan. Feb 25th at 2pm Central. #histtech Join us! Register at link below for Zoom link. cse.umn.edu/cbi/events/i...

Speaking at Hopkins on Wednesday. Will bring the Arctic Air from Minnesota to Baltimore, but also hopefully, interesting insights on why financing and money matters in medical histories of China and Taiwan. krieger.jhu.edu/east-asian/e...

Perhaps we need a prize for Taiwan Studies at AAS. #congratstoallthewinners @asianstudies.org

Join me next Wednesday at Johns Hopkins!

Why health insurance matters. "Health insurers process more than five billion payment claims annually, federal figures show. About 850 million are denied, according to health-policy nonprofit KFF. Less than 1% of patients appeal."-WSJ www.wsj.com/health/healt...

Breaking News. www.statnews.com/2025/02/10/n...

East Asian Science, Technology and Society and I are thrilled to share that our papers in the special issue on "New Histories of Health Insurance, Medicine, and Society in East and Southeast Asia" are now open-access till the end of Feb. 2025. 要讀要快喔！ www.tandfonline.com/toc/teas20/1...

Nice to see Medical Humanities recognizes its reviewers on its website. mhsite-bmj.vercel.app/pages/thank-...

Interesting new article brill.com/view/journal...

Delighted to share news that our special issue on the history of health insurance, medicine, and society in Asia that I've been working on has just been published by EASTS! 1/ www.tandfonline.com/toc/teas20/1...

Sharing @honghongtinn.bsky.social new book on the history of computing industry in Taiwan! Get your copy here: mitpress.mit.edu/978026254938...

My essay with Matthew Booker, "Seed Oyster Inspection, Matsushima Bay, Circa 1958," is now online in Environmental History! It's a first step in our project to rethink Northeastern Japan and the North American Pacific Northwest in aquacultural terms. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Chen Jian’s Jan 1 review of RS’s Hu Yaobang. “Even as he sought to remake China in the world, he understood that the biggest challenges facing China come not from without but from within”-CJ www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/man-...

It was nice to be interviewed for this article by Taiwan's Central News Agency about our new East Asia MA program with a Taiwan Studies track: focustaiwan.tw/culture/2024...

Bring Din Tai Fung to the Twin Cities! foreignpolicy.com/2024/12/13/t...

For folks interested in history of health insurance in the US, please check out Beatrix Hoffman’s work. I often assign this excellent chapter for class discussion. It’s a window for intl. folks interested in knowing more about US healthcare system. www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

Health insurance matters, even in Asia. #financinghealth

With Chinese TPE still on the minds of many, I find that Xu Guoqi's Olympics Dream is still one of the best investigations into ROC/PRC inclusion/exclusion/negotiations in intl. organizations from the 1950s to 1990s. Ch. 4 is quite an interesting read. www.google.com/books/editio...