Wayne Soon
Biographic Data
| ID | 5166768 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wayne Soon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wayne |
| FAMILY NAME | Soon |
| SIGNATURE | SOON W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vassar College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Introduction to Special Issue
Colonial and Global History 1200-present
Health Insurance, Medicine, and Society in Taiwan
Military Medicine in East Asia
Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s)
Herbs and Roots
In Herbs and Roots, Tamara Venit Shelton provides a sophisticated account of Chinese medicine in the United States from the late nineteenth century to the present. Drawing creatively from memoirs, interviews, archival documents, census information, newspaper articles, and advertisements, Venit Shelton compellingly analyzes how Chinese doctors navigated an increasingly hostile legal, medical, and political environment to promote their therapies, k…
From Sars to Covid-19
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: an International Journal - Volume 14, Number 4, December 2020
Mass Vaccination
Reviewed by: Mass Vaccination: Citizens' Bodies and State Power in Modern China by Mary Augusta Brazelton Wayne Soon Mary Augusta Brazelton. Mass Vaccination: Citizens' Bodies and State Power in Modern China. Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2019. 258 pp. Ill. $47.95 (978-1-5017-3998-9). Mary Augusta Brazelton has written an impressive history of vaccination in twentieth…
Zhou, Xun. The People’s Health
Xun Zhou has written a fascinating history of health care in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) from 1949 to 1983. Through a sophisticated analysis of archival documents from the provinces of Sichuan and Yunnan and cities of Shanghai, Beijing and Guizhou, as well as extensive oral history interviews with healthcare workers, Zhou argues that construction of ‘people’s health’ in the PRC was largely shaped by the contentious interactions between h…
Intimate Communities
Reviewed by: Intimate Communities: Wartime Healthcare and the Birth of Modern China, 1937–1945 by Nicole Elizabeth Barnes Wayne Soon Nicole Elizabeth Barnes. Intimate Communities: Wartime Healthcare and the Birth of Modern China, 1937–1945. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018. xviii + 310 pp. Ill. $34.95 (978-0-520-30046-0). Nicole Barnes has written a fascinating history of Chinese health care through the critical lens of gender and e…
Jia-Chen Fu, The Other Milk
Jia-Chen Fu has written a fascinating intellectual history of soy in China from the early 1920s to the late 1930s, covering most of the period of what historians call Republican China (1911–49). Drawing on extensive writings by missionaries and nutritionists, newspaper advertisements and Shanghai Municipal Archives’ documents, Fu argues that the reinvention of soy in Republican China was based on the desire of Chinese reformers to strengthen the …
Death in Beijing
Blood, Soy Milk, and Vitality
This article examines the multiple meanings of blood transfusion and banking in modern China through the history of the first Chinese blood bank, established by the Overseas Chinese in 1943 to solicit blood for the war effort. Through investigating the attitudes of Chinese soldiers and civilians toward the blood bank, this article argues for the multiplicity of motivations underpinning society's attitudes toward blood banking and donation. Cultur…
Science, Medicine, and Confucianism in the Making of China and Southeast Asia—Lim Boon Keng and the Overseas Chinese, 1897–1937
Historians have argued for the importance of Japan and the United States in shaping the trajectory of science and medicine in Republican China, especially in the regions of North China. This article argues that another understated group of individuals—Overseas Chinese—were influential in leading institutions of Western medicine in China, as well as sharing the latest science knowledge they acquired in the West to audiences in China and Southeast …
Science, Medicine, and Confucianism in the Making of China and Southeast Asia — Lim Boon Keng and the Overseas Chinese, 1897–1937
Historians have argued for the importance of Japan and the United States in shaping the trajectory of science and medicine in Republican China, especially in the regions of North China. This article argues that another understated group of individuals—Overseas Chinese—were influential in leading institutions of Western medicine in China, as well as sharing the latest science knowledge they acquired in the West to audiences in China and Southeast …
The Origins of the Developmental State in Taiwan
Taiwan, together with her three counterparts, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Singapore, saw growth rates so high during the Cold War that outsiders labeled them the “four little dragons” and sought to
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Science, Medicine, and Confucianism in the Making of China and Southeast Asia—Lim Boon Keng and the Overseas Chinese, 1897–1937
Historians have argued for the importance of Japan and the United States in shaping the trajectory of science and medicine in Republican China, especially in the regions of North China. This article argues that another understated group of individuals—Overseas Chinese—were influential in leading institutions of Western medicine in China, as well as sharing the latest science knowledge they acquired in the West to audiences in China and Southeast …
Science, Medicine, and Confucianism in the Making of China and Southeast Asia — Lim Boon Keng and the Overseas Chinese, 1897–1937
Historians have argued for the importance of Japan and the United States in shaping the trajectory of science and medicine in Republican China, especially in the regions of North China. This article argues that another understated group of individuals—Overseas Chinese—were influential in leading institutions of Western medicine in China, as well as sharing the latest science knowledge they acquired in the West to audiences in China and Southeast …
The Origins of the Developmental State in Taiwan
Taiwan, together with her three counterparts, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Singapore, saw growth rates so high during the Cold War that outsiders labeled them the “four little dragons” and sought to
Blood, Soy Milk, and Vitality
This article examines the multiple meanings of blood transfusion and banking in modern China through the history of the first Chinese blood bank, established by the Overseas Chinese in 1943 to solicit blood for the war effort. Through investigating the attitudes of Chinese soldiers and civilians toward the blood bank, this article argues for the multiplicity of motivations underpinning society's attitudes toward blood banking and donation. Cultur…
Death in Beijing
Intimate Communities
Reviewed by: Intimate Communities: Wartime Healthcare and the Birth of Modern China, 1937–1945 by Nicole Elizabeth Barnes Wayne Soon Nicole Elizabeth Barnes. Intimate Communities: Wartime Healthcare and the Birth of Modern China, 1937–1945. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018. xviii + 310 pp. Ill. $34.95 (978-0-520-30046-0). Nicole Barnes has written a fascinating history of Chinese health care through the critical lens of gender and e…
Jia-Chen Fu, The Other Milk
Jia-Chen Fu has written a fascinating intellectual history of soy in China from the early 1920s to the late 1930s, covering most of the period of what historians call Republican China (1911–49). Drawing on extensive writings by missionaries and nutritionists, newspaper advertisements and Shanghai Municipal Archives’ documents, Fu argues that the reinvention of soy in Republican China was based on the desire of Chinese reformers to strengthen the …
From Sars to Covid-19
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: an International Journal - Volume 14, Number 4, December 2020
Mass Vaccination
Reviewed by: Mass Vaccination: Citizens' Bodies and State Power in Modern China by Mary Augusta Brazelton Wayne Soon Mary Augusta Brazelton. Mass Vaccination: Citizens' Bodies and State Power in Modern China. Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2019. 258 pp. Ill. $47.95 (978-1-5017-3998-9). Mary Augusta Brazelton has written an impressive history of vaccination in twentieth…
Zhou, Xun. The People’s Health
Xun Zhou has written a fascinating history of health care in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) from 1949 to 1983. Through a sophisticated analysis of archival documents from the provinces of Sichuan and Yunnan and cities of Shanghai, Beijing and Guizhou, as well as extensive oral history interviews with healthcare workers, Zhou argues that construction of ‘people’s health’ in the PRC was largely shaped by the contentious interactions between h…
Herbs and Roots
In Herbs and Roots, Tamara Venit Shelton provides a sophisticated account of Chinese medicine in the United States from the late nineteenth century to the present. Drawing creatively from memoirs, interviews, archival documents, census information, newspaper articles, and advertisements, Venit Shelton compellingly analyzes how Chinese doctors navigated an increasingly hostile legal, medical, and political environment to promote their therapies, k…
Military Medicine in East Asia
Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s)
Introduction to Special Issue
Colonial and Global History 1200-present
Health Insurance, Medicine, and Society in Taiwan
Political science (14 works) · China (12 works) · Law (12 works) · History (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (7 works) · History of Science and Medicine (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Diverse Historical and Scientific Studies (5 works)