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Golden-Silk Smoke - A History of Tobacco in China, 1550-2010 (Hardcover)
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Golden-Silk Smoke - A History of Tobacco in China, 1550-2010 (Hardcover)
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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 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, she 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--"Golden-Silk Smoke" not only uncovers the long and dynamic
history of tobacco in China but also sheds new light on global
histories of fashion and consumption.
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