Shirin Nezammafi is a graduate of Kobe University, where she received her B.S. in Systems Engineering in 2004 and her M.S. in Information Technology in 2006. She currently works for Microsoft Gulf in the United Arab…
Rooted in indigenous traditions and Western influences, ethnology (minzokugaku) emerged as a social scientific discipline in early twentieth-century Japan. Ethnology developed in tandem with empire: scholars supplied…
Sophie Richardson is the China director at Human Rights Watch. A graduate of the University of Virginia, the Hopkins-Nanjing Program, and Oberlin College, Dr. Richardson is the author of numerous articles on domestic…
Thomas Kellogg is director of the East Asia Program at the Open Society Foundations. He is also a lecturer-in-law at Columbia Law School. At the Open Society Foundations, Kellogg focuses most closely on civil society…
Federico Marcon studies early modern Japan and is interested in the interaction of social, economic, and intellectual dynamics in the creation of scientific knowledge in the early modern world. Professor Marcon was…
This paper discusses the establishment and function of a unique institution in the history of Chinese medicine – the Imperial Pharmacy (惠民藥局) and how it impacted medical practice. Established in 1076 during the great…
Taiwan’s system of community-level governance has origins in institutions of local control employed by both the Nationalist Party (KMT), in its period of authoritarian rule, and before that the Japanese colonizers.…
