Poisonous pandas : Chinese cigarette manufacturing in critical historical perspectives / edited by Matthew Kohrman, [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kohrman, Matthew, 1964- editor.

Series:

Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center.

Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cigarette industry--China--History.

Cigarette industry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (325 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

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 Poisonous Pandas, 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1 – Experimentation: Cigarettes in the Communist Base Areas during World War II

Chapter 2 – Malformed Monopoly: How Nationalization of China’s Tobacco Industry Was Shanghaied by a 1950s Cigarette Conference

Chapter 3 – The Chinese Cigarette Industry during the “Great Leap Forward”

Chapter 4 – Bourgeois Decadence or Proletarian Pleasure? The Visual Culture of Male Smoking in China across the 1949 Divide

Chapter 5 – Curating Employee Ethics: Self-Glory Amidst Slow Violence at the China Tobacco Museum

Chapter 6 – Wrangling the Cash Cow: Reforming Tobacco Taxation since Mao

Chapter 7 – Tobacco Governance: Elite Politics, Subnational Stakeholders, and Historical Context

Chapter 8 – Filtered Cigarettes and the Low-Tar Lie in China

Chapter 9 – Aiding Tobacco: Academic-Industry Collaboration in China

Chapter 10– Manuals of Obstruction: China Tobacco Blueprints Its Resistance to the WHO’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control

Afterword

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781503604568

150360456X

OCLC:

1198929853