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

Carol Benedict

Published by University of California Press 2011

Golden-Silk Smoke

A History of Tobacco in China, 1550–2010

Carol Benedict

https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520948563

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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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Benedict Carol :

Carol Benedict is Associate Professor in the School of Foreign Service and the Department of History at Georgetown University. She is the author of Bubonic Plague in Nineteenth Century China.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Early Modern Globalization and the Origins of Tobacco in China, 1550–1650 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
2. The Expansion of Chinese Tobacco Production, Consumption, and Trade, 1600–1750 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	34
3. Learning to Smoke Chinese-Style, 1644–1750 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
4. Tobacco in Ming-Qing Medical Culture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
5. The Fashionable Consumption of Tobacco, 1750–1900 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	110
6. The Emergence of the Chinese Cigarette Industry, 1880–1937 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
7. Socially and Spatially Differentiated Tobacco Consumption during the Nanjing Decade, 1927–1937 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
8. The Urban Cigarette and the Pastoral Pipe: Literary Representations of Smoking in Republican China Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	178
9. New Women, Modern Girls, and the Decline of Female Smoking in China, 1900–1976 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Epilogue: Tobacco in the People’s Republic of China, 1949–2010 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	240
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
Works Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319

Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Pages
- Main content: 352

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Published: April 10, 2011
ISBN: 9780520948563