I'm humbled to be awarded the Agricultural History Society's Henry A. Wallace Award for best book on agricultural history outside the US for my book, In the Global Vanguard: Agrarian Development and the Making of Modern Taiwan. www.aghistorysociety.org/awards

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My book just got passed by the final reviewer!!! Look for ‘Mortality and Measurement’ this year! If anyone would like a sneak peak, let me know. Happy to travel or zoom to hang out and discuss race, statistics, medicine, and empire.

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New arrival: He Bian and Mårten Söderblom Saarela, The Manchu Mirrors and the Knowledge of Plants and Animals in High Qing China (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Asia Center, 2025). The book includes some discussion of Jesuit influences on Manchu writings and their reception in Europe.

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I usually just block and delete these but luckily I have writers block and need to work it out

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