Encounters, Trajectories, and the Ethnographic Moment: Why "Asia as Method" Still Matters.

The article focuses on professor John Law and scholar Lin Wen-yuan's paper on postcolonial version of the principle of symmetry and Taiwanese Science and Technology Studies (STS) and Chinese medicine. Topics discussed include anthropologist Marilyn Strathern's views on ethnographic moment, central features with lateral analysis emerging at the interface between anthropology and STS, and generalization of postcolonial asymmetries.