The latest issue #48 of the Journal of EAST ASIAN SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE, featuring a Focus on “Swarms, herds, and peoples — Examinations of Interspecies Dynamics in China,” is published and available online at www.eastm.org.

Table of Contents

Note from the Editor by CATHERINE JAMI

Focus: Swarms, herds, and peoples—Examinations of Interspecies Dynamics in China

Focus Introduction by DAVID A. BELLO and C. MICHELE THOMPSON

Hacking the Yak: The Chinese Effort to Improve a Tibetan Animal in the Early Twentieth Century by MARK E. FRANK

Consider the Qing Locust by DAVID A. BELLO

Article

The Use of Pain in Childbirth Recorded in Chinese Medical Works by MARGARET WEE SIANG NG