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An interview with Paul Unschuld, translator of the "Ben Cao Gang Mu"

The "Ben Cao Gang Mu" brings together ancient medicine, wisdom, and culture. German scholar and translator Paul U. Unschuld explains why it remains a crucial text — revealing the culture that underlies Chinese health care and politics.
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Q&A with David Gilbert, author of Countering Dispossession, Reclaiming Land

Two decades ago, a group of Indonesian agricultural workers began occupying the agribusiness plantation near their homes. In the years since, members of this remarkable movement have reclaimed collective control of their land and cultivated diverse agricultural forests on it, repairing the damage do
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The urban resource frontiers that sustain city life

By Kristian Karlo Saguin, author of Urban Ecologies on the Edge: Making Manila's Resource FrontierCities around the world are learning to live with the challenges of increasing urban ecological precarity. In watery Manila, the metropolitan population of around 25 million is constantly expose
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Missionaries, Anthropologists, and Music in the Indonesian Archipelago

by Anna Maria Busse Berger (Editor), Henry Spiller (Editor)
Mar 2025
Open Access
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Scripting Suicide in Japan

by Kirsten Cather (Author)
Oct 2024
Open Access