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

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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...

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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, Lean, Eugenia

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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...

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