Tokugawa Medicine: Writing, Authority and Practice, 1650-1850
A review of Writing, Authority and Practice in Tokugawa Medicine, 1650-1850, by Daniel Trambaiolo. Scholars interested in the history of medicine in early modern Japan…
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Clocks & Time in Edo Japan
A review of Clocks and Time in Edo Japan, by Yulia Frumer. The logic of mechanical clock faces is seemingly obvious. We look at them…
Chinese Geology & German Imperialism
A review of Underground Empires: German Imperialism and the Introduction of Geology in China, 1860-1919, by Shellen Xiao Wu. After the German geologist Ferdinand von…