About 5,000 pharmacists protested in Taipei against a new policy allowing non-licensed individuals to sell traditional Chinese medicine after completing 35 credits. Pharmacists say it lowers standards, while officials argue it supports the industry. focustaiwan.tw/society/2025...

American tariffs are disrupting the TCM market and slowing the flow of herbal ingredients from China to the U.S. Prices are expected to keep rising, significantly impacting both practitioners and patients. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/b...

The Korean Society for the Philosophy of Medicine (한국의철학회) is organizing a spring conference on May 24, 2025, at Yonsei University in Seoul.

Out now! “Responding to Epidemic Outbreaks in Tibetan Contexts” Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines, Number 77, May 2025: www.digitalhimalaya.com/collections/... Edited by Barbara Gerke, William A. McGrath and Jan M. A. van der Valk.

New Issue: Asian Medicine, Volume 20! Highlights include Maarten Bode on “Revitalizing Ayurveda,” Kenneth Zysk’s Basham Medal Address, articles by Colin Garon & Arthur Erqi Cheng, essays by Lan A. Li, Stephan Kloos & Bernard Coops, plus 10 book reviews. Read more: brill.com/.../journals...

Always great to meet our authors in the wild! Thanks #aahm2025 @mstanleybaker.bsky.social’s book is out in paperback next month manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526191120/

Blogpost by earlier IASTAM president Volker Scheid, and Cinzia Scorzon. www.volkerscheid.net/post/on-dosing

Artemisia or wormwood can be found all over the world. In East Asian herbal medicine it's used to stop bleeding, treat pain, and dispel itching. Leaves can be eaten fresh and used for moxibustion therapy. #asianmedicine #moxibustion #yomogi #herbalmedicine #EastAsianMedicine

The WHO Global Traditional Medicine Centre (GTMC) organizes a keynote plenary panel, "Restoring balance: Scaling up access to evidence-based traditional medicine for health and well-being" at the World Health Summit (WHS) Regional Meeting on Friday, 25 April 2025. www.who.int/news-room/ev...

I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.

Birch bark documents are fascinating for many reasons, among them the languages they are written in. Most are written in a colloquial Slavic language, and there is also the oldest attestation of Finnic (n° 292) and one document in runic Old Norse (Smol. n° 11)! Here's the Old Norse document: 1/3

The greatest business battle EVER to be fought will come when President Elon starts trying to implement AI for federal processes. The battle will be fought over which company’s AI will be used by the feds. This is a zero sum battle that will create more chaos than this country has ever seen

Dear math historians; Karine Chemla is organising a seminar on the Historipgraphy of Mathematical Symbolism in Feb, April, May and June this year. www.sphere.univ-paris-diderot.fr/IMG/pdf/hist... As well as a conference in September www.sphere.univ-paris-diderot.fr/IMG/pdf/2025...

The latest issue of East Asian Science Technology and Medicine is out, with articles on Japanese survey of Korean materia medica, and early concepts of state hygiene in Japanese Goto Shimpei. brill.com/view/journal...

We are gearing up to start meetup zooms of info and education from our Guest Speakers! Come join us and meetup! www.meetup.com/ayurveda-ess...

New book series seek submissions: Medica: Studies in Pre-Modern Health and Healing (Routledge) is a multi-disciplinary book series that encourages and promotes scholarship in the long history of health, healing, and medicine from the Ancient World to 1800. t.co/dE6AtYyc8l

It looks like this journal is a new account on bluesky. Following it would be a good thing.

Great new issue out from Asian Medicine, the journal of @iastam.bsky.social! Really attests to the diversity of our membership and the reach of Asian Medicine as research concept. Congratulations!

#digitalhumanities #dh #teaching #plagiarism @digitalorientalist.bsky.social @digitalhumanities.bsky.social

New AI research tools for Teachers: This lists new AI research tools which faculty should be aware of for plagiarism, and to teach to students. Suggests how to counter AI plagiarism - make a required assessment that students journal and reflect on their AI usage. www.academia.edu/126102542/Ne...

This is being circulated in Mr. 糖山‘s social media: A 50 Kana 五十音 table from Japanese-era Taiwan (Shōwa 17: 1942) with sinographic equivalents to be pronounced in Taiwanese Hokkien 😁

Dolly Yang has translated the daoyin passages from 《諸病源候論》 Zhubing Yuanhou Lun by ChaoYuanfang (Exercise Prescription in Sui China) with Mugen Jiang.

A thread on growing East Asian herbs... #growingherbs #herbmarket #agriculture North America needs to increase growing East Asian medicinal herbs. Flooding, drought, and promised tariffs are increasing some herbs 100-200%! www.mayway.com/articles/fal...

Last night at dinner, we were talking about Uncle Baicao's lovely videos.

The first in a series of four, Mondays this month.

Just out: In the Middle of What? On Periodization and the Global #Medieval. This is a forum with 6 essays by Chinese historians and literature scholars on the uses and meanings of the global medieval, with an introduction by the organiser and editor Tian Xiaofei. www.tandfonline.com/toc/yemc20/2...

Bluesky academics, let's get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren't working on but keep thinking about. 1) situating religion and medicine in early imperial China 2) including plant molecular contents and bioactivity in history

JOB> Postdoctoral Position in Chinese Buddhist Philosophy, Austrian Academy of Sciences networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Sinology 🀄 time! OK, just for a change of pace, a thread about Northern Wei funerary gifts. I remember reading the biography of Xianbei elder statesman Qiumuling Liang 丘穆陵亮 and being struck by a list of imperial gifts to him at the time of his funeral in 502. (1/15)

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