Wayne Soon
@waynesoon.bsky.social
Historian of Medicine, China, Taiwan, and Diaspora at the University of Minnesota. Associate Professor. Currently researching on global health insurance histories in East Asia. https://a.co/d/4tahHXR
Pleased to share my review in T&C on the edited volume on Fighting for Health: Medicine in Cold War Southeast Asia. @nuspress.bsky.social
I enjoyed reading the essays in the volume, and learned a lot from them.
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
I enjoyed reading the essays in the volume, and learned a lot from them.
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
July 23, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Pleased to share my review in T&C on the edited volume on Fighting for Health: Medicine in Cold War Southeast Asia. @nuspress.bsky.social
I enjoyed reading the essays in the volume, and learned a lot from them.
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
I enjoyed reading the essays in the volume, and learned a lot from them.
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Ebook version of my 2020 book, Global Medicine in China: A Diasporic History is on sale at $16 from @stanfordpress.bsky.social Consider buying a copy!
www.sup.org/books/asian-...
www.sup.org/books/asian-...
July 18, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Ebook version of my 2020 book, Global Medicine in China: A Diasporic History is on sale at $16 from @stanfordpress.bsky.social Consider buying a copy!
www.sup.org/books/asian-...
www.sup.org/books/asian-...
Pleased to be sharing my review essay in HSNS on “New Directions in Global Health Histories of China and Taiwan”. I reviewed Mary Brazelton, Rachel Core, Fang Xiaoping and Yi-Tang Lin’s monographs & identified key themes in global health histories.
online.ucpress.edu/hsns/article...
online.ucpress.edu/hsns/article...
June 30, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Pleased to be sharing my review essay in HSNS on “New Directions in Global Health Histories of China and Taiwan”. I reviewed Mary Brazelton, Rachel Core, Fang Xiaoping and Yi-Tang Lin’s monographs & identified key themes in global health histories.
online.ucpress.edu/hsns/article...
online.ucpress.edu/hsns/article...
Enjoyed reading Tristan Brown‘s book. Pairs well with Rogaski’s new book on Knowing Manchuria, which I enjoyed reading too. 1/ @tristangbrown.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social
June 3, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Enjoyed reading Tristan Brown‘s book. Pairs well with Rogaski’s new book on Knowing Manchuria, which I enjoyed reading too. 1/ @tristangbrown.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social
May 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
AAHM Asia network breakfast meeting. Great to meet everyone! @aahmhistmed.bsky.social
May 3, 2025 at 4:18 AM
AAHM Asia network breakfast meeting. Great to meet everyone! @aahmhistmed.bsky.social
Congratulations @jamestwotree.bsky.social! Looking forward to reading this very important book!
April 10, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Congratulations @jamestwotree.bsky.social! Looking forward to reading this very important book!
Looking forward to @jwassers.bsky.social's talk @umn-tc-aaup.bsky.social.
April 3, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Looking forward to @jwassers.bsky.social's talk @umn-tc-aaup.bsky.social.
March 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Speaking at Hopkins on Wednesday. Will bring the Arctic Air from Minnesota to Baltimore, but also hopefully, interesting insights on why financing and money matters in medical histories of China and Taiwan.
krieger.jhu.edu/east-asian/e...
krieger.jhu.edu/east-asian/e...
February 18, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Speaking at Hopkins on Wednesday. Will bring the Arctic Air from Minnesota to Baltimore, but also hopefully, interesting insights on why financing and money matters in medical histories of China and Taiwan.
krieger.jhu.edu/east-asian/e...
krieger.jhu.edu/east-asian/e...
Join me next Wednesday at Johns Hopkins!
February 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Join me next Wednesday at Johns Hopkins!
Snapshots of introduction. 13/
January 23, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Snapshots of introduction. 13/
Delighted to share news that our special issue on the history of health insurance, medicine, and society in Asia that I've been working on has just been published by EASTS! 1/
www.tandfonline.com/toc/teas20/1...
www.tandfonline.com/toc/teas20/1...
January 23, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Delighted to share news that our special issue on the history of health insurance, medicine, and society in Asia that I've been working on has just been published by EASTS! 1/
www.tandfonline.com/toc/teas20/1...
www.tandfonline.com/toc/teas20/1...
Sharing @honghongtinn.bsky.social new book on the history of computing industry in Taiwan! Get your copy here: mitpress.mit.edu/978026254938...
January 19, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Sharing @honghongtinn.bsky.social new book on the history of computing industry in Taiwan! Get your copy here: mitpress.mit.edu/978026254938...
Brill has some really great primary sources & localized primary-source-type secondary research on PRC history. In particular, the early volumes of Historical Studies of Contemporary China provides empirical interpretation of the recent past. @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
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November 18, 2024 at 1:31 AM
Brill has some really great primary sources & localized primary-source-type secondary research on PRC history. In particular, the early volumes of Historical Studies of Contemporary China provides empirical interpretation of the recent past. @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
brill.com/display/seri...
brill.com/display/seri...
Bluesky, here's my 2020 book, with very generous blurbs of reviews by colleagues. @stanfordpress.bsky.social
www.sup.org/books/asian-...
www.sup.org/books/asian-...
November 17, 2024 at 3:59 PM
Bluesky, here's my 2020 book, with very generous blurbs of reviews by colleagues. @stanfordpress.bsky.social
www.sup.org/books/asian-...
www.sup.org/books/asian-...