Golden-silk smoke : a history of tobacco in China, 1550-2010 / Carol Benedict.
"From the long-stemmed pipe to snuff, the water pipe, hand-rolled cigarettes, and finally, manufactured cigarettes, the history of tobacco in China is the fascinating story of a commodity that became a hallmark of modern mass consumerism. Carol Benedict follows the spread of Chinese tobacco use...
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Table of Contents:
- Early modern globalization and the origins of tobacco in China, 1550-1650
- The expansion of Chinese tobacco production, consumption, and trade, 1600-1750
- Learning to smoke Chinese style, 1644-1750
- Tobacco in Ming-Qing medical culture
- The fashionable consumption of tobacco, 1750-1900
- The emergence of the Chinese cigarette industry, 1880-1937
- Socially and spatially differentiated tobacco consumption during the Nanjing decade, 1927-1937
- The urban cigarette and the pastoral pipe : literary representations of smoking in republican China
- New women, modern girls, and the decline of female smoking in China, 1900-1976
- Epilogue : tobacco in the People's Republic of China, 1949-2010.