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Angela Leung
Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Angela Leung
Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Izumi Nakayama
Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences
University of Hong Kong, United States
Max Hirsh
Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences
University of Hong Kong, United States
Suzanne Gottschang
Anthropology
Smith College, United States
Wen-Hua Kuo
Institute of Public Health
National Yang-Ming University, United States
In 2017, an interdisciplinary team of historians, anthropologists, sociologists, STS and urban scholars came together at the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Hong Kong to launch a collaborative research project that studies the role of everyday technologies in the making of modern East Asia from the 19thcentury to the present. Drawing inspiration from the history and anthropology of technology, East Asian STS studies, and urban studies, the team has spent the past two years conducting research on a variety of what we deem everyday technologies—ranging from food and medicine to telephones, automation, and transportation—with two goals in mind: