Abstract This article examines pigs and pig raising in rural China during the Maoist period (1949–76). It provides an overall picture of how the state promoted swine keeping and how pigs were cared for, fed, and bred under the collective political economy. The pigs’ diet, the use of swine feces, and breeding practices were determined in alignment with the state's priority of ensuring primitive socialist accumulation—maximizing the extraction of value from the countryside, channeling it to the industrial and urban sectors, and compelling grassroots communes to “self-reliantly” subsist at the minimum level. Rural pigs in Mao-era China were therefore required to occupy densely populated collective pigsties, consume potentially unpalatable and less nutritious native greens, excrete increasingly, and mate with foreign breeds. The daily labor and lives of swine caretakers and breeders were influenced by these demands placed on the nonhuman population. Pigs and those who attended to them in communal pigpens reflected the ideals and limitations of Maoism.

Essay| February 01 2024 Decolonization and Self-Reflection: Teaching the Korean History of Science in South Korea Jongsik Christian Yi Jongsik Christian Yi Pohang University of Science and Technology jongsikyi@postech.ac.kr Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar jongsikyi@postech.ac.kr Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (2024) 54 (1): 121–124. https://doi.org/10.1525/hsns.2024.54.1.121 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Jongsik Christian Yi; Decolonization and Self-Reflection: Teaching the Korean History of Science in South Korea. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 1 February 2024; 54 (1): 121–124. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/hsns.2024.54.1.121 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentHistorical Studies in the Natural Sciences Search Pohang, a coastal city in the southeastern Korean peninsula, is known as Korea's "Steel Capital." In 1970, the state-owned Pohang Iron and Steel Company (POSCO) established what was then the world's largest steel mill. As the steel industry expanded, POSCO strengthened its research and development sector and in 1986 founded Pohang University of Science and Technology (Postech), thought to have been modeled upon the California Institute of Technology. Expected to become a Korean Caltech that would produce future Nobel laureates, Postech quickly grew into one of South Korea's most prestigious institutions of higher education. After completing my doctorate in the history of science at Harvard in 2022, I accepted a position teaching the history of science and Science and Technology Studies (STS) at Postech. Preparing one of my first undergraduate courses, "History of Science and Technology in Twentieth-Century Korea," proved challenging. The specific pairing of science with modern Korea struck... You do not currently have access to this content.

This book review examines A Cultural History of Heredity as a historical account of the development of a body of thought that the authors refer to as “biological hereditarian thinking” in Europe and North America during the long 19th and 20th centuries. Rather than a standard history of modern genetics, the book, as the title properly suggests, introduces and connects various ideas about heredity. The aim of this review is to simplify the complex historical time frame and highlight some of the main themes and lines of thinking to make this masterpiece more accessible to life and medical scientists. In other words, this review seeks to provide an epistemological typology of heredity.

This article explores how Mao-era China responded to major epizootic and zoonotic diseases. It foregrounds a series of patterns in fighting contagious animal diseases-lockdowns, quarantines, disinfection, mass animal vaccination, mass education, and prioritizing the treatment of infected animals over mass culling-which were together called the Comprehensive Prevention and Treatment (CPT). Shedding light on this understudied topic in the fields of the history of medicine and of the People's Republic of China (PRC), the author argues that it was not the central or provincial governments but rather local communes that led the effort to protect livestock from animal infectious diseases. This article critically demonstrates how the story of the CPT highlights the resilience of communal actors as well as the possibilities and limitations of the Maoist ideal of self-reliance.

Human-Animal Relations and the Hunt in Korea and Northeast Asia (hereafter The Hunt in Korea) introduces the "animal turn" to Korean studies, examining how political elites in early modern Korea constructed competing discourses on hunting and nonhuman animals between the mid-13th and early-16th centuries.Kallander argues that changing ideas and norms about proper human-animal relations shaped the nature of kingship and governance.Readers should note that The Hunt in Korea is based on an implicit dualism: the authority of kings vs. that of literati bureaucrats; the martial vs. the sage; and the nomadic and Eurasian vs. the neo-Confucian and China-centric traditions.The former embraced the interactions with animals in the wilderness and sought to legitimize various types of hunting, while the latter opposed such multispecies encounters, regarding them as reflective of barbarity, or animality, and preferred to remain within the boundaries of civilization.Kallander traces how the former prevailed during the late Koryo and early Choso n era under Mongol Yuan influence, before being gradually overwhelmed by the latter during the consolidation of the Choso n dynasty.Chapter 1 sets the stage by describing the features of the mountainous environment of the Korean peninsula and its nonhuman inhabitants.The next chapter outlines the hunt during the early and mid-Koryo period.The founder, Wang Ko n (877-943), and the early kings of the dynasty valued martial charisma and endorsed hunting, but the royal chase waned from the 10th to early 13th centuries due to Buddhism's influence and 87

Abstract This article examines pigs and pig raising in rural China during the Maoist period (1949–76). It provides an overall picture of how the state promoted swine keeping and how pigs were cared for, fed, and bred under the collective political economy. The pigs’ diet, the use of swine feces, and breeding practices were determined in alignment with the state's priority of ensuring primitive socialist accumulation—maximizing the extraction of value from the countryside, channeling it to the industrial and urban sectors, and compelling grassroots communes to “self-reliantly” subsist at the minimum level. Rural pigs in Mao-era China were therefore required to occupy densely populated collective pigsties, consume potentially unpalatable and less nutritious native greens, excrete increasingly, and mate with foreign breeds. The daily labor and lives of swine caretakers and breeders were influenced by these demands placed on the nonhuman population. Pigs and those who attended to them in communal pigpens reflected the ideals and limitations of Maoism.

Essay| February 01 2024 Decolonization and Self-Reflection: Teaching the Korean History of Science in South Korea Jongsik Christian Yi Jongsik Christian Yi Pohang University of Science and Technology jongsikyi@postech.ac.kr Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar jongsikyi@postech.ac.kr Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (2024) 54 (1): 121–124. https://doi.org/10.1525/hsns.2024.54.1.121 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Jongsik Christian Yi; Decolonization and Self-Reflection: Teaching the Korean History of Science in South Korea. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 1 February 2024; 54 (1): 121–124. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/hsns.2024.54.1.121 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentHistorical Studies in the Natural Sciences Search Pohang, a coastal city in the southeastern Korean peninsula, is known as Korea's "Steel Capital." In 1970, the state-owned Pohang Iron and Steel Company (POSCO) established what was then the world's largest steel mill. As the steel industry expanded, POSCO strengthened its research and development sector and in 1986 founded Pohang University of Science and Technology (Postech), thought to have been modeled upon the California Institute of Technology. Expected to become a Korean Caltech that would produce future Nobel laureates, Postech quickly grew into one of South Korea's most prestigious institutions of higher education. After completing my doctorate in the history of science at Harvard in 2022, I accepted a position teaching the history of science and Science and Technology Studies (STS) at Postech. Preparing one of my first undergraduate courses, "History of Science and Technology in Twentieth-Century Korea," proved challenging. The specific pairing of science with modern Korea struck... You do not currently have access to this content.