Vernacular Industrialism in China : : Local Innovation and Translated Technologies in the Making of a Cosmetics Empire, 1900-1940 / / Eugenia Lean.
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 publis...
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Lean, Eugenia, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Vernacular Industrialism in China : Local Innovation and Translated Technologies in the Making of a Cosmetics Empire, 1900-1940 / Eugenia Lean. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2020] ©2020 1 online resource : 18 b&w text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE. Gentlemanly Experimentation in Turn-of- the- Century Hangzhou -- PART TWO. Manufacturing Knowledge, 1914- 1927 -- PART THREE. Manufacturing Objects, 1913- 1942 -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Notes -- References -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 technologies and translated manufacturing processes from abroad to produce adaptations of global commodities that bested foreign brands. Engaging in the worlds of journalism, industry, and commerce, he drew on literati practices associated with late-imperial elites but deployed them in novel ways within a culture of educated tinkering that generated industrial innovation.Through the lens of Chen's career, Eugenia Lean explores how unlikely individuals devised unconventional, homegrown approaches to industry and science in early twentieth-century China. She contends that Chen's activities exemplify "vernacular industrialism," the pursuit of industry and science outside of conventional venues, often involving ad hoc forms of knowledge and material work. Lean shows how vernacular industrialists accessed worldwide circuits of law and science and experimented with local and global processes of manufacturing to navigate, innovate, and compete in global capitalism. In doing so, they presaged the approach that has helped fuel China's economic ascent in the twenty-first century. Rather than conventional narratives that depict China as belatedly borrowing from Western technology, Vernacular Industrialism in China offers a new understanding of industrialization, going beyond material factors to show the central role of culture and knowledge production in technological and industrial change. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Cosmetics industry Technological innovations China History 20th century. Cosmetics industry Technological innovations China History 20thcentury. East and West. Industrialists China Biography. Industrialization China History 20th century. Technological innovations China History 20th century. Technology transfer China History 20th century. HISTORY / Asia / China. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020 9783110710977 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English 9783110704716 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 9783110704518 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2020 English 9783110704730 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2020 9783110704525 ZDB-23-DEG print 9780231193481 https://doi.org/10.7312/lean19348 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231550338 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231550338/original |
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