Golden-Silk Smoke : A History of Tobacco in China, 1550-2010 /

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"Tobacco has been pervasive in China almost since its introduction from the Americas in the mid-sixteenth century. One-third of the world's smokers--over 350 million--now live in China, and they account for 25 percent of worldwide smoking-related deaths. This book examines the deep roots o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Benedict, Carol (Carol Ann), 1955- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Tobacco > Social aspects.
Tobacco.
Smoking.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Customs & Traditions.
HISTORY > Asia > General.
Tabagisme > Chine > Histoire.
Tabac > Aspect social > Chine.
Tabac > Chine > Histoire.
Smoking > China > History.
Tobacco > Social aspects > China.
Tobacco > China > History.
China.
History.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 Cinese 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, 1900-1976
  • Epilogue : tobacco in the People's Republic of China, 1949-2010.

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