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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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