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Life and Times of Ephedra — The Quest for a Scientific Use of an Ancient Remedy and TCM’s Long road to modernization
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In June 1935, a famous medical journal in Shanghai, Yijie Chunqiu (醫界春秋, “Annals of medicine”) published a short essay called “Mahuang zhuan” (麻黃傳, “A biography of ephedra”). … -
Tracing Apps and Digital Divide (3): Supplementary Measures, User Involvement, and the Ethical Responsibility of Designers
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From the designers’ own perspective, ensuring equality, paying attention to diverse concerns from different groups, and preventing potentially adverse social effects should always be a priority in the designing process. … -
Tracing Apps and Digital Divide (2): Path Dependency and Unintended Consequences in Technology Design
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The technological choices in the design of the tracing apps in different societies and countries are contingent upon specific needs and cultural and political environments, and show a strong tendency of path dependency. … -
Tracing Apps and Digital Divide (1): Different Technological Designs
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In the first article, we introduce the tracing apps in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Singapore as a set of comparative examples. … -
Shuanghuanglian Oral Liquid: TCM Pharmacotherapy in the Time of Coronavirus
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On the evening of January 31, 2020 — the seventh day of the lunar new year — news broke and spread rapidly on the Chinese social media platform WeChat regarding a certain shuanghuanlian koufuye (双黄连口服液, hereafter SHL oral liquid) showing efficacy in inhibiting the “novel coronavirus pneumonia” (xinguan feiyan 新冠肺炎), which had come out of Wuhan and was wreaking havoc. … -
28-Dang — A Bicycle that Moved Socialist and Early-Reform China
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In 1989, U.S. President George H. W. Bush went on an official visit to China just one month after assuming office. … -
Health QR Code: Technological and/or Social Infrastructure about Pandemic Control and Privacy
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How can we balance the benefits and risks of such big-scale surveillance systems? This is a tricky problem. … -
Facial Recognition: Surveillance with “Artificial” Intelligence
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Hi-tech is often supported by usually invisible, manual, and exhausted workers whose work practice implies something far from hi-tech. … -
The Transformation of Hotpot: Towards Convenience and/or Individualization?
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Fueled by the pandemic during which people are more or less forced to conduct individual lives, it is no surprise that food exemplified by self-heated hotpot becomes so popular. …