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- Book Title
- Vernacular Industrialism in China: Local Innovation and Translat
- ISBN
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Columbia University Press
ISBN-10
0231193483
ISBN-13
9780231193481
eBay Product ID (ePID)
5038293030
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
416 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Vernacular Industrialism in China : Local Innovation and Translated Technologies in the Making of a Cosmetics Empire, 1900-1940
Subject
Modern / 20th Century, Economics / General, Asia / China, Corporate & Business History
Publication Year
2020
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Business & Economics, History
Series
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
25.2 Oz
Item Length
0.9 in
Item Width
0.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2019-032862
Reviews
Lean's study contributes a deeply researched argument regarding an identifiable social fraction she calls 'vernacular industrialists.', This pathbreaking book conclusively demonstrates that the values and habits of classically trained Chinese literati, so scorned by May Fourth modernizers, were fully reconcilable with modern science and technology. Eugenia Lean's "vernacular industrialism" will be a touchstone for all future work on the history of science and technology in China., This is a highly learned book. Lean reads her sources closely and effectively situates her observations within a deeper Chinese past and across multiple thematic fields. . . [H]er observations shed much new light on the workings of the wider industrial modern world, and her concept of vernacular industrialism will find purchase in contexts far beyond cuttlefish bone-strewn Chinese shores., Thoroughly researched and elegantly crafted . . . [this book] sheds fresh light on early twentieth-century China at a time when the nation was just entering global capitalism., Vernacular Industrialism in China is an astonishingly rich and original microhistory. In telling the fascinating story of Chen Diexian, Lean challenges us to rethink large swathes of modern Chinese history. An outstanding achievement of wit, erudition, and insight., This book, with its focus on light industry and consumer goods, is altogether a welcome addition to the fields of business and economic history of modern China., Eugenia Lean has written an engrossing study of how popular industrialism arose in early twentieth-century China. Chen Diexian emerges from its pages as both representative and remarkable: an amateur scientist and literary celebrity turned serial entrepreneur, consumer products magnate and do-it-yourself modernist. Through Chen's career, Vernacular Industrialism in China traces a fascinating history of everyday innovations., Lean's volume is an important contribution to our knowledge of Chinese industry's progress in the first half of the twentieth century., One of the great pleasures of reading Lean's study is how she brings together Chen Diexian's full range of literary and entrepreneurial achievements for this portrait. She completes it with new analytical approaches to the social history of modern science and small-scale manufacturing in twentieth-century China., Vernacular Industrialism in China is an astonishingly rich and original microhistory. In telling the fascinating story of Chen Diexian, Lean challenges us to rethink large swaths of modern Chinese history. An outstanding achievement of wit, erudition, and insight., This path-breaking book conclusively demonstrates that the values and habits of classically trained Chinese literati, so scorned by May Fourth modernizers, were fully reconcilable with modern science and technology. Eugenia Lean's "vernacular industrialism" will be a touchstone for all future work on the history of science and technology in China., A riveting microhistory with broader historiographical ambitions . . . Lean's decision to focus on an individual entrepreneur makes this book highly readable for students of modern Chinese history and general readers who are interested in business history, knowledge production, science, and industry., Eugenia Lean has written an engrossing study of how popular industrialism arose in early twentieth-century China. Chen Diexian emerges from its pages as both representative and remarkable: an amateur scientist and literary celebrity turned serial entrepreneur, consumer products magnate, and do-it-yourself modernist. Through Chen's career, Vernacular Industrialism in China traces a fascinating history of everyday innovations.
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
338.766855092
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Gentlemanly Experimentation in Turn-of-the-Century Hangzhou 1. Utility of the Useless Part II: Manufacturing Knowledge, 1914-1927 2. One Part Cow Fat, Two Parts Soda: Recipes for the Inner Chambers, 1914-1915 3. An Enterprise of Common Knowledge: Fire Extinguishers, 1916-1935 Part III: Manufacturing Objects, 1913-1942 4. Chinese Cuttlefish and Global Circuits: The Association of Household Industries 5. What's in a Name? From Studio Appellation to Commercial Trademark 6. Compiling the Industrial Modern, 1930-1941 Conclusion Glossary Notes References Index
Synopsis
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 China engaged in "vernacular industrialism," the pursuit of industry and science outside of conventional venues., 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., 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 outcompeted 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. Moving away from 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.
LC Classification Number
HD9970.5.C673C64
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