Reseña: East Asian Lacquer: Material Culture, Science and Conservation

Specialized Knowledge in Traditional East Asian Contexts: STS and the History of East Asian Science

“STS,” both the expression itself and the scholarly enterprise referred to by that label, has been very enthusiastically received in East Asia—Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and China—in recent years. It is probably because the problems posed to society by science and technology have been perceived more acutely in this region. Modern science and technology, mainly developed in the West, was felt foreign...

Trade Arrangements and Evolving East Asian and Asia Pacific

The paper begins by noting that proposals involving significant developments in the regional tradearchitecture are being developed within regional processes that in some cases are simultaneouslypursuing other dimensions of regional economic integration: monetary and financial cooperation inthe case of ASEAN + 3, and the establishment of a common market in the case of ASEAN. At leastthree of the...

East Asian Production Networks – The Role and Contribution of SMEs

The Asia-Pacific region generates over half of global economic activity (54.2%) and about 43.7% of global trade, and is the most dynamic region in the global economy. At the core of this is an increasingly dynamic, vibrant and entrepreneurial small-medium sized enterprise sector. Advances in information and communications technology, market liberalisation and moves towards closer regional econo...

East Asian monsoon and paleovegetation

1 CEREGE, CNRS/Université Paul Cézanne UMR 6635, BP 80, 13545 Aix-en-Provence cedex, France 2 SKLL, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xian 710075, China 3 Institut des Sciences de l’Environnement, UQAM, Montréal PQ, H3C 3P8 Canada 4 Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 634, 100029 Beijing, China 5 Institute of Botany, Chinese Acad...

Asian culture and psychotherapy