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Hele Bed and Bamboo Stick: One Lever, Two Usages, Two Kinds of Noodles
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The same lever is used in different geographical locations and societies in different ways, while such ways are constructed by different agricultural conditions, the extent of urbanization, and the development of commercial culture. … -
Stand-to-pee Toilet: Practical Competency and Gendered Bodily Norms
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Stand-to-pee (STP) devices allow females to urinate while standing upright. … -
Hive Box: Controversies over Automation, Privatization, and Negotiability
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The case inspires us to rethink whether the complete, neat, and organized automation is truly more superior to conventional service models that involve the “messy” but negotiable human factors. … -
Food Delivery Platform: Service Quality, Algorithm, Infrastructure, and People
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Behind the algorithm and the food delivery platform service is the huge supply of rural migrant workers in China. … -
The Popcorn Maker — An American Technology’s Journey to East Asia
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In May 2013, the beloved Australian-American science and entertainment show MythBusters released an episode called “How to Make Instant Popcorn.” … -
Luosi Fen and the Consumption of Instant Noodle in Contemporary China
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A few days before 2020’s spring festival, many Chinese people began to experience unprecedentedly strict lockdown measures because of the COVID-19 outbreak. … -
Taiwan Tea: Ongoing Struggles over Food Nationalism
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The cross-regional tea trade has been the window to look into the changing relationship between food localism and food nationalism. …