Jacob Eyferth Associate Professor Departments of History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago During the collective era (1956–80), China’s farmers earned an average annual cash income from collective sources of ¥15, equivalent to US $9 in terms of purchasing power. Total income was higher, since members of collectives received much of their […]
Wayne Soon Associate Professor Program of the History of Medicine in the Department of Surgery Program of History of Science, Medicine, and Technology University of Minnesota Twin Cities This presentation argues that comparative histories of health insurance can be a productive lens to reexamine nation-building processes, political patronage, and industrial productivity. While postwar China and […]
Suyoung Son Associate Professor in Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University How can the written recipes convey the embodied practice of cooking? While cooking traditionally relies on direct transformation and oral explication, what circumstances lead to the translation of this mute skill into written form? This talk examines two 17-century cooking recipes from Chosŏn Korea […]