East Asian Science Technology and Society-An International Journal最新文献

{"title":"Asian Scientists on the Move: Changing Science in a Changing Asia","authors":"Larry Au","doi":"10.1080/18752160.2022.2162365","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18752160.2022.2162365","url":null,"abstract":"The imaginary of an ascendant Asia as a scientific and technological powerhouse has loomed large in public and policy debates in the United States and Europe in recent years. Increasingly, universities and research institutes in Asia are seen as competitors and innovators that have the potential to disrupt established hierarchies in the global scientific field. In Anju Mary Paul’s Asian Scientists on the Move: Changing Science in a Changing Asia, we see the transnational social lives of the scientists behind these developments and come to understand the complex decisions that shape their scientific careers and migratory decisions. Paul shows the linkages between national systems and cultures of science and the global scientific field, and identifies the agency of individual actors in raising the national profiles of their “home” and “host” countries in global science. Paul brings her much-needed expertise in international migration and her skill as a rigorous empirical social scientist to the study of Asian scientists. At the core of Paul’s data are interviews with 119 life sciences academic scientists who received their PhDs or postdoctoral training at elite universities overseas (e.g. Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and were employed at elite universities in their home or host country (e.g. Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Academia Sinica, Indian Institute of Science). While some scientists “returned” to their country of birth, others in Paul’s interview sample were “halfway-returnees” who turned to places like Singapore and Taiwan, which allowed them to be closer to family but enabled them to maintain the scientific networks cultivated while they were overseas. The book is divided into three sections. In Part I, Paul provides an overview of the recent history of science policy in the four cases she examines: Mainland China,","PeriodicalId":45255,"journal":{"name":"East Asian Science Technology and Society-An International Journal","volume":"52 1","pages":"114 - 117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80828466","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}

{"title":"Rural–Urban Migration and Agro-Technical Change in Post-Reform China","authors":"Jelena Große-Bley","doi":"10.1080/18752160.2022.2162364","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18752160.2022.2162364","url":null,"abstract":"What does a bowl of noodles in a Shanghai eatery have to do with a paddy rice field in Anhui Province? In Rural–Urban Migration and Agro-Technical Change in PostReform China, published with Amsterdam University Press as part of its New Mobilities in Asia series, Lena Kaufmann traces migrant stories from urban centers back to the countryside of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). At the center of this thoughtful book are farming households, their rural–urban migrant members, and the socio-technical relations to their paddy rice fields. Her work sheds new light on social and technological change in China’s countryside by analyzing land-use strategies and migration together, while taking seriously both social and material dimensions to the decision-making of her interlocutors. Kaufmann offers a refreshing perspective in five chapters on rural–urban migration in China by focusing on how intimately it is shaped by socio-technical logics of farming in their places of origin. She invites readers to think about “community of practice worlds” to understand her interlocutors, who are rural–urban migrants and their families in rice farming villages in Hunan und Anhui Province. Navigating the complex and dynamic developments at China’s rural–urban migration nexus, they are faced with many questions. Yet, Kaufmann’s interlocutors rarely mentioned their rice paddy fields, which they have to maintain. “You don’t talk about your bathroom either. There is no need to talk about it” (16), they explained. But Kaufmann explores how it is exactly this often unspoken “paddy field-migration predicament” of having to tend to paddy rice fields at home, while working far away in urban centers such as Shanghai, that shapes migration and land-use strategies of rural households. With a keen eye for detail and lucid writing style that convincingly draws out broader connections underlying migration patterns and land-use practices in China, Kaufmann shows how the migration situation is reflected in the landscape of today’s rural China, which entails things that stay, such as paddy fields, and things","PeriodicalId":45255,"journal":{"name":"East Asian Science Technology and Society-An International Journal","volume":"22 1","pages":"118 - 122"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81924564","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}

{"title":"GMO China: How Global Debates Transformed China’s Agricultural Biotechnology Policies","authors":"E. Sternfeld","doi":"10.1080/18752160.2022.2162363","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18752160.2022.2162363","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45255,"journal":{"name":"East Asian Science Technology and Society-An International Journal","volume":"48 1","pages":"123 - 128"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87917042","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}

{"title":"Welcome to Our Newly Renovated Open Kitchen!","authors":"Wen-ling Tu","doi":"10.1080/18752160.2023.2167655","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18752160.2023.2167655","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45255,"journal":{"name":"East Asian Science Technology and Society-An International Journal","volume":"30 1","pages":"3 - 5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78240513","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}

{"title":"Bioacoustics as Forms of Resistance: Growing Mycelium Instruments and Mushroom Communication in a High-Tech City-State","authors":"Yuen Chee Wai, En Chao","doi":"10.1080/18752160.2023.2167837","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18752160.2023.2167837","url":null,"abstract":"Singapore-based experimental band The Observatory (天文台樂團) recently showcased their bio-sonification exhibition at Singapore Art Museum: REFUSE (14 January–17 April 2022). Set against imagery of manicured gardens in a celebration of organic growth and decomposition, REFUSE is a critical pun. First, REFUSE means to reject the current anthropocentric worldview in a time of ecological crises, and secondly it embraces inter-media arts that fuse recycled instruments with bio-sounds. Instruments were either the platform to grow mushrooms onto, or even themselves fully bio-fabricated by mushrooms – including a fully playable lap steel mycelium guitar that is simultaneously played by a mushroom. To amaze the audience further, these instruments were all wired to vibrate, their rhythms controlled by a growing mycelium whose organic growth is visually mapped and translated into signals that trigger the vibration. As the humidity and density of the mushroom jar changes, the sounds also vary, each sound unique even during the same day. As Obervatory band-member Yuen Chee Wai (袁志偉) told En-Chieh Chiao of our cover-image curating team when describing the mycelium's sounds, “They play like a decomposing composition.” The cover team chose this exhibition because it speaks to a research note and to an article in this issue that respectively address the issue of noise control and aging in Singapore. While the city–state endeavors to contain both noise and health in old age as parts of governance, here the artists renounce control over sound and let biological non-human actors set the course of subtle sensory experiences.","PeriodicalId":45255,"journal":{"name":"East Asian Science Technology and Society-An International Journal","volume":"28 1","pages":"105 - 110"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83407141","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}

{"title":"Situational Analysis as an Interdisciplinary Research Method","authors":"Jia-shin Chen","doi":"10.1080/18752160.2022.2136457","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18752160.2022.2136457","url":null,"abstract":"SA","PeriodicalId":45255,"journal":{"name":"East Asian Science Technology and Society-An International Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"537 - 541"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84222991","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}

{"title":"Seeds of Control: Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea","authors":"J. Owen","doi":"10.1080/18752160.2022.2148050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18752160.2022.2148050","url":null,"abstract":"The award-winning book from Professor David Fedman, a historian at the University of California Irvine, is a thoroughly researched journey through the fascinat-ing history of a perhaps less familiar aspect of colonial Korea. The book begins with a foreword by Paul S. Sutter (University of Colorado Boulder) that informs readers of the many complexities of the historical developments related to forest management, policy, research, and economics during Korea ’ s colonial period. The Japanese occupiers were not merely concerned with enlarging business opportunities and pro fi t from the extensive forests on the Korean peninsula","PeriodicalId":45255,"journal":{"name":"East Asian Science Technology and Society-An International Journal","volume":"345 1","pages":"568 - 571"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77791487","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}

{"title":"The Life and Death of Machines and Imaginaries: Conversations on Trains on EASTS Covers","authors":"Leandro Rodriguez Medina, Hyungsub Choi","doi":"10.1080/18752160.2022.2136831","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18752160.2022.2136831","url":null,"abstract":"These short essays are an experiment in quite how far EASTS ’ cover images can take us. Af fi liating STS with different disciplines, and working on opposite sides of the globe, we are delighted to have two EASTS editors — Hyungsub Choi, an excellent historian of technology working in Korea, and Leandro Rodriguez Medina, the former editor-in- chief of Mexico-based Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society — re fl ecting on their encounters with three EASTS covers that feature trains — an iconic presence of progress and modernity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Without knowing that Shigehisa Kuriyama ’ s beautifully written “ Covers and the Poetics of Communication ” featured two of the three mentioned in his essay, Leandro chooses covers that resonate with his experiences in a railway-employee family in Argentina and tries to make sense of the cultural messages they carry for non-Europeans. Sharing Leandro ’ s critical examination of these modern/Western machines, Hyungsub ’ s re fl ection is a culturally-oriented one: “ What do we mean by ‘ East Asian technology ’ ? ” As his essay goes, Hyungsub ’ s observation nicely echoes the promises of “ Making Modernity in East Asia: Technologies of Everyday Life, 19th – 21st Centuries ” project, a Hong Kong based, transnational collaboration that aims to trace technological processes and modernity in this region, advancing “ new methodological strategies into the study of technology and its knowledge, practice, and artifacts that de fi ne and rede fi ne East Asia as a region with fl uid boundaries ” (Hirsh, Leung and Nakayama 2019: 507). As readers will see, the two essays here do not stand alone; instead, via the poetics of EASTS covers on how technology has made STS both modern and traditional, global and vernacular, ideological and practi- cal, together they achieve a recondita armonia.","PeriodicalId":45255,"journal":{"name":"East Asian Science Technology and Society-An International Journal","volume":"10 1","pages":"542 - 549"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90324236","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}

{"title":"Defending Lives among Concrete Walls: An Interview with Flâneur Artist, Tom Rook","authors":"T. Rook, Harry Yi-Jui Wu","doi":"10.1080/18752160.2022.2154063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18752160.2022.2154063","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45255,"journal":{"name":"East Asian Science Technology and Society-An International Journal","volume":"37 1","pages":"550 - 553"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74760205","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}

{"title":"Humans and Devices in Medical Contexts: Case Studies from Japan","authors":"Hiroto Shimizu","doi":"10.1080/18752160.2022.2148049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18752160.2022.2148049","url":null,"abstract":"Humans","PeriodicalId":45255,"journal":{"name":"East Asian Science Technology and Society-An International Journal","volume":"35 1","pages":"564 - 567"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74698738","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}