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Golden-silk smoke : a history of tobacco in China, 1550-2010 /

"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Benedict, Carol (Carol Ann), 1955- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2011.
Series:ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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 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.