Author profile: Michael Shiyung Liu

Michael Shiyung Liu is professor at the Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica. His research focuses on environmental history and the history of medicine, in 2009 he published Prescribing Colonization: The Role of Medical Practices and Policies in Japan-ruled Taiwan 1895-1945.

Review – Epidemics in Modern Asia

Michael Shiyung Liu • Dec 14 2016 • Features

Though Peckham’s cultural history of disease contains conceptual shortcomings, his historical account is still an unconventional yet insightful read.

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