Golden-Silk Smoke

Golden-Silk Smoke
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 352
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ISBN-10 : 9780520948563
ISBN-13 : 0520948564
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Book Synopsis Golden-Silk Smoke by : Carol Benedict

Download or read book Golden-Silk Smoke written by Carol Benedict and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-04-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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