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Eugenia Y. Lean
Assistant Professor
Columbia University
East Asian Lang-Cult
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Biography
Eugenia Lean, assistant 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 emotions and gender, law and media, as well as consumer culture, science, 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 an outstanding book in modern East Asian history, awarded by the American Historical Association. Her current project is a cultural biography of modern soap in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century China, and is concerned with issues of the popularization of science, the rise of the everyday, and changing concepts of health and beauty in modern China's consumer culture.
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