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Eugenia Y. Lean
Associate Professor
Columbia University
East Asian Lang-Cult
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Biography
Eugenia Lean, associate professor (EALAC), received her BA from Stanford University (1990), and her MA (1996) and PhD (2001) from UCLA. She is interested in a broad range of topics in late imperial and modern Chinese history with a particular focus on the history of science and industry, mass media, consumer culture, emotions andgender, as well as law and urban society. She is also interested in issues of historiography and critical theory in the study of East Asia. She is the author of Politics of Passion: the Trial of Shi Jianqiao and the Rise of Public Sympathy in Nineteen Thirties China (UC Press, 2007), which was awarded the 2007 John K. Fairbank prize for the best book in modern East Asian history, awarded by the American Historical Association. Her current project is a cultural history of industrialization in late-nineteenth and early twentieth-century China that focuses on polymath Chen Diexian, a professional writer/editor, science enthusiast, and pharmaceutical industrialist, to explore the intersection among the popularization of science, commerce, and ways of authenticating knowledge and things in an era of mass communication.
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