Benedict, Carol (Author)
"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"-- "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 of China's contemporary "cigarette culture" and smoking epidemic and provides one of the first comprehensive histories of Chinese consumption in global and comparative perspective"
...MoreReview Thomas O. Höllmann (2015) Review of "Golden-Silk Smoke: A History of Tobacco in China, 1550--2010". East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine (pp. 127-129).
Review Croizier, Ralph (2012) Review of "Golden-Silk Smoke: A History of Tobacco in China, 1550--2010". American Historical Review (pp. 176-177).
Review Lean, Eugenia (2012) Review of "Golden-Silk Smoke: A History of Tobacco in China, 1550--2010". Journal of Asian Studies (p. 761).
Essay Review Trocki, Carl A. (2013) Writing the History of Drug Commodities. Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient (pp. 98-106).
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