Poisonous Pandas: Chinese Cigarette Manufacturing in Critical Historical Perspectives

A favorite icon for cigarette manufacturers across China since the mid-twentieth century has been the panda, with...
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Author: Matthew Kohrman
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Poisonous Pandas: Chinese Cigarette Manufacturing in Critical Historical Perspectives by Kohrman, Matthew

Poisonous Pandas: Chinese Cigarette Manufacturing in Critical Historical Perspectives

$84.11

Poisonous Pandas: Chinese Cigarette Manufacturing in Critical Historical Perspectives

$84.11
Author: Matthew Kohrman
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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.



Author: Matthew Kohrman
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 04/24/2018
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781503604476


Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2018

About the Author
Matthew Kohrman is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University. Gan Quan is the Director of Tobacco Control of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. Liu Wennan is Editor for the Institute of Modern History at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Robert N. Proctor is Professor of the History of Science at Stanford University.

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