Osiris Volume 33 Science and Capitalism

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Public Passions: The Trial Of Shi Jianqiao And The Rise Of Popular Sympathy In Republican China

By Eugenia Lean, American Council Of Learned Societies, American Council Of Learned Societies - York University.

In 1935, A Chinese Woman By The Name Of Shi Jianqiao Murdered The Notorious Warlord Sun Chuanfang As He Prayed In A Buddhist Temple. This Riveting Work Of History Examines This Well-publicized Crim...

Vernacular Industrialism In China: Local Innovation And Translated Technologies In The Making Of A Cosmetics Empire, 1900–1940

By Eugenia Lean, Lean, Eugenia

By examining the manufacturing, commercial, and cultural activities of the maverick industrialist Chen Diexian (1879–1940), Eugenia Lean illustrates how lettered men of early-twentieth-century Chin...

Public Passions

By Eugenia Lean, American Council Of Learned Societies, American Council Of Learned Societies - York University.

In 1935, A Chinese Woman By The Name Of Shi Jianqiao Murdered The Notorious Warlord Sun Chuanfang As He Prayed In A Buddhist Temple. This Riveting Work Of History Examines This Well-publicized Crim...

Public Passions

By Eugenia Lean

Vernacular Industrialism In China: Local Innovation And Translated Technologies In The Making Of A Cosmetics Empire, 1900–1940

By Eugenia Lean, Lean, Eugenia

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 tinkere...