CONTENTS

Special Issue: Environmental, Strategic, and Medical Interactions with Military Ambitions in East Asia and Beyond

Baihui Duan

Pests and Their Impacts on Humans: An Environmental History of Infectious Diseases during Mongol Invasions in East Asia

Kizaki Braddick

A Shortcut to a Dead End: Locating Joseon Korea in Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s Grand Strategy

Hohee Cho

The Making of a Frontline Laboratory: The United States Naval Medical Research Unit No. 2 and Wartime Colonial Medicine

Article

Jin Yeoul Choi

The Death of a Language? The Xianbei Language after Emperor Xiaowen’s Ban

Inju Song

The Industrial Policies in Xing’an Province and Manchukuo’s Control over Manchuria and Mongolia Borderland (1931-1945)

Vadim Akulenko / Junghyun Choi

Tracing the Evolution and Current Landscape of Korean Studies in Russia’s Far East: The Case of Far Eastern Federal University

Tae Joon Won

The Demise of the British Military Commitment to Korea, 1979-1993

Review

Howard Kahm

Book Review of William Franklin Sands in Late Chosŏn Korea: At the Deathbed of Empire, 1896-1904 263

Myung Ho Hyun

Book Review of Hiroshima and the Historians: Debating America’s Most Controversial Decision