Chinese Cigarette Manufacturing in Critical Historical Perspectives

Chinese Cigarette Manufacturing in Critical Historical Perspectives
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Publisher : Stanford University Press
Total Pages : 258
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ISBN-10 : 9781503638327
ISBN-13 : 1503638324
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Book Synopsis Chinese Cigarette Manufacturing in Critical Historical Perspectives by : Matthew Kohrman

Download or read book Chinese Cigarette Manufacturing in Critical Historical Perspectives written by Matthew Kohrman and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that this is a Chinese language edition. A favorite icon for cigarette manufacturers across China since the mid-twentieth century has been the panda, with factories from Shanghai to Sichuan using cuddly cliché to market tobacco products. The proliferation of panda-branded cigarettes coincides with profound, yet poorly appreciated, shifts in the worldwide tobacco trade. Over the last fifty years, transnational tobacco companies and their allies have fueled a tripling of the world's annual consumption of cigarettes. At the forefront is the China National Tobacco Corporation, now producing forty percent of cigarettes sold globally. What's enabled the manufacturing of cigarettes in China to flourish since the time of Mao and to prosper even amidst public health condemnation of smoking? In this book, an interdisciplinary group of scholars comes together to tell that story. They offer novel portraits of people within the Chinese polity—government leaders, scientists, tax officials, artists, museum curators, and soldiers—who have experimentally revamped the country's pre-Communist cigarette supply chain and fitfully expanded its political, economic, and cultural influence. These portraits cut against the grain of what contemporary tobacco-control experts typically study, opening a vital new window on tobacco—the single largest cause of preventable death worldwide today.


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