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Book SynopsisFollows the spread of Chinese tobacco use from the sixteenth century, when it was introduced to China from the New World, through the development of commercialized tobacco cultivation, and to the present day. This title analyzes the factors that have shaped China's highly gendered tobacco cultures.
Trade Review"Required reading for anyone interested in global commodity history or Chinese consumer history." -- L. Teh Choice "A font of empirical information and a model of source analysis." Social History Of Medicine "A success on many fronts... It is easy to see that numerous audiences would find this book a rewarding examination of an engaging topic." -- Matthew P. Romaniello Journal Of World History
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Early Modern Globalization and the Origins of Tobacco in China, 1550--1650 2. The Expansion of Chinese Tobacco Production, Consumption, and Trade, 1600--1750 3. Learning to Smoke Chinese-Style, 1644--1750 4. Tobacco in Ming-Qing Medical Culture 5. The Fashionable Consumption of Tobacco, 1750--1900 6. The Emergence of the Chinese Cigarette Industry, 1880--1937 7. Socially and Spatially Differentiated Tobacco Consumption during the Nanjing Decade, 1927--1937 8. The Urban Cigarette and the Pastoral Pipe: Literary Representations of Smoking in Republican China 9. 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 Notes Works Cited Index
