Program of History of Science, Medicine, and Technology University of Minnesota Twin Cities Comparative History Matters: Health Insurance, Medicine, and Ideology in China and Taiwan @ 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 Taiwan similarly […]

To the Sea, To the Mountain: Cantonese Woodwork in the Indian Ocean during the Nineteenth Century @ This talk examines the mobility of Cantonese woodwork, a vibrant regional craft in the Pearl River Delta, and its impact on artisanal practices through a case study of woodworkers’ movement to the Indian Ocean during the nineteenth century. […]

Cooking Recipes and the Ways of Transmitting Knowledge @ 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 (1392–1897), exploring […]

Department of Government and Brooks School of Public Policy, Cornell University Ethnic Orders: Social Categories and the Politics of Identity in the Malay World @ Ethnicity is central to politics throughout the Malay world, but the meaning and significance of ethnicity—and of social categories like “Malay”—is contested, dynamic, and multifaceted. This talk is an overview […]