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From Needham to EASTS, or Why History Matters

 

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1 So too have many younger-generation scholars associated with the Needham Research Institute, as EAHSL was renamed in 1991.

2 Society for Social Studies of Science. “What is 4S?” www.4sonline.org/ (accessed 25 October 2018).

3 Science, Technology, and Innovation Studies (University of Edinburgh) homepage, www.stis.ed.ac.uk/ (accessed 25 October 2018).

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Francesca Bray

Francesca Bray is a historian of science, technology, and medicine in China and East Asia, with a special interest in developing non-Eurocentric directions in global history. Her books include the volume Agriculture in Needham’s series Science and Civilisation in China (1984); Technology, Gender, and History in Imperial China (2013); Rice: Global Networks and New Histories (2015); and Moving Crops and the Scales of History (forthcoming). She is emerita professor of social anthropology at the University of Edinburgh, and has been a consultant editor of EASTS since the journal was founded.

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