Eugenia Lean
Biographic Data
| ID | 971644 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eugenia Lean |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eugenia |
| FAMILY NAME | Lean |
| SIGNATURE | LEAN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-3178-7500 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Epilogue: Some concluding thoughts on “resourceful creativity”
“Resourceful creativity” is a powerful concept that links resourceful practices such as imitation, repairing, and repurposing with creativity, forcing readers to rethink the conventional view that such acts of copying and resourcing are somehow mutually exclusive from innovation. As East Asia has long been portrayed as being a mere copier and lacking the ability to innovate, a longue durée analysis from the perspective of East Asia is a particula…
Notes from Global Asia: How to Write a Global History of Knowledge
Recent developments in the field of global Asia and the global South are paying attention to alternative ways of knowing and historicizing how they circulate. Such work helps the field produce critical geographies in our writing of the history of knowledge that decenter persistent Eurocentric narratives of the origins of science. They help avoid comparative and even civilizational frameworks that continue to shape our understanding of the modern …
Introduction: The Entangled Histories of Science and Capitalism
This volume revisits the mutually constitutive relationship between science and capitalism from the seventeenth century to the present day. Adopting a global approach, we reject the notion that either science or capitalism can be understood as stages of modernity that emerged in the West and subsequently engendered a “Great Divergence” with the rest of the world. Instead, both science and capitalism were historical institutions that arose in an i…
Making the Chinese Copycat: Trademarks and Recipes in Early Twentieth-Century Global Science and Capitalism
This essay examines early twentieth-century international disputes over alleged Chinese copying of the trademarks and brand recipes of Burroughs Wellcome and Company’s Hazeline Snow vanishing cream. By doing so, it explores the complex back-and-forth that occurred between metropole manufacturers and actors in the colonial periphery in negotiating the parameters of a newly emerging global trademark regime. The essay does not present Chinese adapte…
Recipes for Men: Manufacturing Makeup and the Politics of Production in 1910s China
In the first decade of Republican China (1911-49), masculinity was explored in writings on how to manufacture makeup that appeared in women's magazines. Male authors and editors of these writings--some of whom were connoisseurs of technology, some of whom were would-be manufacturers--appropriated the tropes of the domestic and feminine to elevate hands-on work and explore industry and manufacturing as legitimate masculine pursuits. Tapping into t…
AHR Conversation: The Historical Study of Emotions
In the past few years, the AHR has published five “Conversations,” each on a subject of interest to a wide range of historians: “On Transnational History” (2006), “Religious Identities and Violence” (2007), “Environmental Historians and Environmental Crisis” (2008), “Historians and the Study of Material Culture” (2009), and “Historical Perspectives on the Circulation of Information” (2011). For each the process has been the same: the Editor conve…
Public Passions: The Trial of Shi Jianqiao and the Rise of Popular Sympathy in Republican China
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 crime and the highly sensationalized trial of the killer. In a fascinating investigation of the media, political, and judicial records surrounding this cause celebre, Eugenia Lean shows how Shi Jianqiao planned not only to avenge the death of her father, bu…
The Making of a Public: Emotions and Media Sensation in 1930s China
The Making of a Public: Emotions and Media Sensation in 1930s China
Introduction: The Entangled Histories of Science and Capitalism
This volume revisits the mutually constitutive relationship between science and capitalism from the seventeenth century to the present day. Adopting a global approach, we reject the notion that either science or capitalism can be understood as stages of modernity that emerged in the West and subsequently engendered a “Great Divergence” with the rest of the world. Instead, both science and capitalism were historical institutions that arose in an i…
Making the Chinese Copycat: Trademarks and Recipes in Early Twentieth-Century Global Science and Capitalism
This essay examines early twentieth-century international disputes over alleged Chinese copying of the trademarks and brand recipes of Burroughs Wellcome and Company’s Hazeline Snow vanishing cream. By doing so, it explores the complex back-and-forth that occurred between metropole manufacturers and actors in the colonial periphery in negotiating the parameters of a newly emerging global trademark regime. The essay does not present Chinese adapte…
Recipes for Men: Manufacturing Makeup and the Politics of Production in 1910s China
In the first decade of Republican China (1911-49), masculinity was explored in writings on how to manufacture makeup that appeared in women's magazines. Male authors and editors of these writings--some of whom were connoisseurs of technology, some of whom were would-be manufacturers--appropriated the tropes of the domestic and feminine to elevate hands-on work and explore industry and manufacturing as legitimate masculine pursuits. Tapping into t…
The Making of a Public: Emotions and Media Sensation in 1930s China
The Making of a Public: Emotions and Media Sensation in 1930s China
Public Passions: The Trial of Shi Jianqiao and the Rise of Popular Sympathy in Republican China
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 crime and the highly sensationalized trial of the killer. In a fascinating investigation of the media, political, and judicial records surrounding this cause celebre, Eugenia Lean shows how Shi Jianqiao planned not only to avenge the death of her father, bu…
AHR Conversation: The Historical Study of Emotions
In the past few years, the AHR has published five “Conversations,” each on a subject of interest to a wide range of historians: “On Transnational History” (2006), “Religious Identities and Violence” (2007), “Environmental Historians and Environmental Crisis” (2008), “Historians and the Study of Material Culture” (2009), and “Historical Perspectives on the Circulation of Information” (2011). For each the process has been the same: the Editor conve…
Recipes for Men: Manufacturing Makeup and the Politics of Production in 1910s China
In the first decade of Republican China (1911-49), masculinity was explored in writings on how to manufacture makeup that appeared in women's magazines. Male authors and editors of these writings--some of whom were connoisseurs of technology, some of whom were would-be manufacturers--appropriated the tropes of the domestic and feminine to elevate hands-on work and explore industry and manufacturing as legitimate masculine pursuits. Tapping into t…
Introduction: The Entangled Histories of Science and Capitalism
This volume revisits the mutually constitutive relationship between science and capitalism from the seventeenth century to the present day. Adopting a global approach, we reject the notion that either science or capitalism can be understood as stages of modernity that emerged in the West and subsequently engendered a “Great Divergence” with the rest of the world. Instead, both science and capitalism were historical institutions that arose in an i…
Making the Chinese Copycat: Trademarks and Recipes in Early Twentieth-Century Global Science and Capitalism
This essay examines early twentieth-century international disputes over alleged Chinese copying of the trademarks and brand recipes of Burroughs Wellcome and Company’s Hazeline Snow vanishing cream. By doing so, it explores the complex back-and-forth that occurred between metropole manufacturers and actors in the colonial periphery in negotiating the parameters of a newly emerging global trademark regime. The essay does not present Chinese adapte…
Notes from Global Asia: How to Write a Global History of Knowledge
Recent developments in the field of global Asia and the global South are paying attention to alternative ways of knowing and historicizing how they circulate. Such work helps the field produce critical geographies in our writing of the history of knowledge that decenter persistent Eurocentric narratives of the origins of science. They help avoid comparative and even civilizational frameworks that continue to shape our understanding of the modern …
Epilogue: Some concluding thoughts on “resourceful creativity”
“Resourceful creativity” is a powerful concept that links resourceful practices such as imitation, repairing, and repurposing with creativity, forcing readers to rethink the conventional view that such acts of copying and resourcing are somehow mutually exclusive from innovation. As East Asia has long been portrayed as being a mere copier and lacking the ability to innovate, a longue durée analysis from the perspective of East Asia is a particula…
Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (6 works) · China (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Politics (3 works)