... known as “virus hunters”—and bird-watchers are attempting to see the world through the perspectives of the viruses and birds they study. In the second modality, which he calls “prevention,” he argues that pastoralism, which he equates with Foucauldian regimes of biopower, dominates human-animal...

... be an afterword to this forum. The pandemic itself is far from over; the majority of infections are probably still to come, their distribution unknown. To a significant extent, this is also true of the virus's impact on politics, media, and economics, though some grim results seem sadly predictable: notably...

.... They would almost surely not produce all of the facts of biological history considered here, but their reverence for SItala does not require them to reject such facts. 24 RALPH W. NICHOLAS Smallpox Two viruses of the genus Orthopoxvirus cause what is commonly known as smallpox among human beings. One...

... a crucial role as a reminder that there is a more totalitarian regime on the peninsula. The Hollywood film industry has occasionally chosen Korea as a host (at least an intermediate host, if not the final one) to infectious viruses. In the 1995 medical disaster film Outbreak , one of the early movies...

... problems is posed by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes the dreaded disease AIDS. Although this fact has been recognized for a few years, there is very little research on the economic ramifications of HIV and AIDS in South and South East Asia. This edited book seeks to fill this lacuna...

... and had been searched millions of times online since its first appearance. This topical term, according to the Chinese government, refers to “people whose telephone signals were detected near—an area measuring 800 meters by 800 meters (2,600 feet by 2,600 feet)—a confirmed virus carrier for more than ten...

... by the virus, known as COVID-19, first appeared in Wuhan in late 2019. The role attributed to the government of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in responding to the outbreak has varied greatly, ranging from accusations of negligence in allowing the virus to spread outside its borders to assertions of its...

.... But several possible explanations have been offered for the relatively low mortality thus far: some strains of COVID-19 might be more lethal than others; heat might be inimical to the spread of the virus, and a clearer picture will emerge with the monsoon (the flu season in northern India); India's age...

..., and stoking fear among officials for reporting negative news. These trends paved the “road to apocalypse” (19). During the national congress in January 2020, for instance, Wuhan's officials did not allow any reporting of negative news, such as the spreading of the virus. The officials gave a green light...

... with the Soviet Union and Communism. The importance of the military arm is to be recognized, but he believes its power has been over-emphasized. 416 FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY Its usefulness depends on whether the Communist virus is widely distributed among the population, or local in its incidence, and on whether...

...John Shelton Curtiss Russia and Her Colonies . By Walter Kolarz . New York : Frederick A. Praeger , 1953 . xiv, 335 pp. Index. $6.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1953 1953 416 FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY Its usefulness depends on whether the Communist virus...

... Keck , Avian Reservoirs: Virus Hunters and Birdwatchers in Chinese Sentinel Posts ( Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2020 ) ; Liz P. Y. Chee , Mao's Bestiary: Medicinal Animals and Modern China ( Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2021 ) ; Katherine Mason...

... the dissemination of necessary information and likely facilitated the spread of the virus itself. The juxtaposition of these two examples provides a compelling bookend to Global Medicine in China , an impressively researched volume that adds a much-needed transnational dimension to the history of biomedicine...

... of technology through parallel narratives wherein ghosts are increasingly populating the world and a virus is spreading over the Internet, infecting individuals with the desire to withdraw from society and then to kill themselves. Shot in Poland, Oshii's Avalon engages with issues of authoritarian...

.../AIDS policies, Shao-hua Liu shows how young Nuosu men become caught up crime and drug use, and consequently infected with the HIV virus at very high rates through sharing needles. She then documents how international and national government initiatives have been largely ineffective in improving...

... it is avowedly "not intended to be an academic text" in public health (p. vii), the volume clearly conveys complex epidemiological and biomedical issues such as the different subtypes of the AIDS causing virus, HIV, represented in Southeast Asia. It contains useful references without burdening the text...

... population which, when combined with large numbers of pigs kept close to urban centers, promoted the spread of the deadly Japanese B encephalitis virus, which killed thousands in Tokyo and other major cities. Walker argues that industrial pollution, its immediate and future impact, is the result...

... of the importance of public health for others. It is important to acknowledge one region that felt the immediate impact of this outbreak in the same month that the virus was detected and reported: Southeast Asia. This region, as this book is at pains to point out, is complex and diverse and should never be seen...

... to our contemporary world (if not only to Japan) is Sakyō's novel Virus: The Day of Resurrection (1964). As though offering a prognosis for the ongoing threat of COVID-19 in 2021, the novel predicts “the geopolitical frictions, the gaps in global connections, and a global ecology that is fragile...

.... The prominent television news anchor Arnab Goswami, for instance, claimed that people were dying “because of the singular determination of the Tablighi Jamaat to spread the virus in our country.” 6 The idea that it was Muslims who had brought COVID-19 to India provided some cover for the government, which...