Who Benefited? Forty-five Years of U.S.–China Relations

Rosemary Foot. The Practice of Power: U.S.Relations with China since 1949
Robert S. Ross. Negotiating Cooperation: The United States and China, 1969–1989     

J. D. Rolleston (1873–1946): An Overlooked Scholar of Folk Medicine

J. D. Rolleston was a medical doctor of considerable renown and skill whose scholarly interests in retirement included the study of folk medicine. He authored some seventeen papers on the topic, which are the subject of an annotated bibliography here, together with a short note on his professional life.     

Contribution of Tibetan Medicine To Embryology

Tibetanshadgainedsomeunderstandingofembryologybythe8thcentury.TheFour-VolumeMedicalCode,writtenbyYutogNyingmaYundainGunbu,themostfamousTibetanmedicinepractitionerintheTibetanhistory,declaredtheembryocouldsurviveandgrowmainlybecauseofthenutrientssuppliedbythemotherthroughtheumbilicalcord."Theumbilicalcordandembryomaintainarelationshipjustlikethatbetweenapool,ditchandcrops.Themotherislikethepool,theumbilicalcordistheditch,andembryoisthecrops.Waterischanneledfromthepool(mother)tothecropfields…     

Slavic,European, or Asiatic? F. H. Duchinski on the Origins of the Russian People

The emergence of Russia as a dominant force in Europe from the early nineteenth century onward was characterized by growing tensions between Russians and Poles as seen in the recurring Russian suppression of Polish uprisings. F. H. Duchinski (1817–93) who, like other Polish intellectuals, tried to uncover the root causes of these political tensions, concluded that Russians were neither Slavic nor European, but Asians, and it was this fact alone, he believed, that accounted for the continuing Russian hostility toward the Poles.