Poisonous Pandas: Chinese Cigarette Manufacturing in Critical Historical Perspectives (Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center)

Synopsis

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. -- Experimentation : Cigarettes In The Communist Base Areas During World War Ii / Liu Wennan -- Malformed Monopoly : How Nationalization Of China's Tobacco Industry Was Shanghaied By A 1950's Cigarette Conference / Sha Qingqing -- The Chinese Cigarette Industry During The Great Leap Forward / Huangfu Qiushi And Matthew Kohrman -- Bourgeois Decadence Or Proletarian Pleasure? : The Visual Culture Of Male Smoking In China Across The 1949 Divide / Carol Benedict -- Curating Employee Ethics : Self-glory Amidst Slow Violence At The China Tobacco Museum / Matthew Kohrman -- Wrangling The Cash Cow : Reforming Tobacco Taxation Since Mao / Matthew Kohrman, Gan Quan, And Teh-wei Hu -- Tobacco Governance : Elite Politics, Subnational Stakeholders, And Historical Context / Cheng Li -- Filtered Cigarettes And The Low-tar Lie In China / Matthew Kohrman, Ronald Sun, Robert N. Proctor, And Yang Gonghuan -- Aiding Tobacco : Academic-industry Collaboration In China / Gan Quan And Stanton A. Glantz -- Manuals Of Obstruction : China Tobacco Blueprints Its Resistance To The Who's Framework Convention On Tobacco Control / Wu Yiqun, Li Jinkui, And Pang Yingfa. Edited By Matthew Kohrman, Gan Quan, Liu Wennan, And Robert N. Proctor. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.