Golden-Silk Smoke

A History of Tobacco in China, 1550-2010

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20002866
AutoresCarol Benedict (autor de correspondencia)
Año2011
Páginas334
Fecha de publicación2011-10-04
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaGoldensilk Smoke A History Of Tobacco In China 15502010 (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialUniversity of California Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1525/california/9780520262775.001.0001
OpenAlexW4245504186
Open LibraryOL26027617M
ISBN9780520262775
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas17

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 story of a commodity that became a hallmark of modern mass consumerism. This book follows 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. Along the way, it analyzes the factors that have shaped China's highly gendered tobacco cultures, and shows how they have evolved within a broad, comparative world-historical framework. Drawing from a wealth of historical sources—gazetteers, literati jottings (biji), Chinese materia medica, Qing poetry, modern short stories, late Qing and early Republican newspapers, travel memoirs, social surveys, advertisements, and more—the book not only uncovers the long and dynamic history of tobacco in China but also sheds new light on global histories of fashion and consumption

Advertising · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art history · Biology · Business · China · Consumerism · Consumption (sociology) · Economic history · Geography · Memoir · Newspaper · Political science · Snuff · Social science · Sociology · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Agriculture · asia · Ethnology · Psychology · Smoking · Social aspects · Tobacco · Tobacco industry