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  • Vernacular Industrialism in China

    Local Innovation and Translated Technologies in the Making of a Cosmetics Empire, 1900–1940

    by Eugenia Lean ...
    Series series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
    In early twentieth-century China, Chen Diexian (1879–1940) was a maverick entrepreneur—at once a prolific man of letters and captain of industry, a magazine editor and cosmetics magnate. He tinkered with chemistry in his private studio, used local cuttlefish to source magnesium carbonate, and published manufacturing tips in how-to columns. In a rapidly changing society, Chen copied foreign ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Vernacular Industrialism in China

    Local Innovation and Translated Technologies in the Making of a Cosmetics Empire, 1900–1940

    by Eugenia Lean ...
    Series series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
    In early twentieth-century China, Chen Diexian (1879–1940) was a maverick entrepreneur—at once a prolific man of letters and captain of industry, a magazine editor and cosmetics magnate. He tinkered with chemistry in his private studio, used local cuttlefish to source magnesium carbonate, and published manufacturing tips in how-to columns. In a rapidly changing society, Chen copied foreign ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Osiris, Volume 33: Science and Capitalism

    Entangled Histories

    Edited by Lukas Rieppel, William Deringer, Eugenia Lean ...
    Series Book 33 - Osiris
    The historical relationship between science and capitalism has long stood as a central question in science studies, at least since its foundations in the 1930s. Taking inspiration from the recent surge of scholarly interest in the “history of capitalism,” as well as from renewed attention to political economy by historians of science and technology, this Osiris volume revisits this classic ... Read more

    $25.19 USD