Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Part One. Industrial Change across Revolutionary Borders
7. Chapter 1 – Experimentation: Cigarettes in the Communist Base Areas during World War II 37
8. Chapter 2 – Malformed Monopoly: How Nationalization of China’s Tobacco Industry Was Shanghaied by a 1950s Cigarette Conference 56
9. Chapter 3 – The Chinese Cigarette Industry during the “Great Leap Forward” 73
10. Part Two. Cultural Legitimation through Visual and Historical Manipulations
11. Chapter 4 – Bourgeois Decadence or Proletarian Pleasure? The Visual Culture of Male Smoking in China across the 1949 Divide 95
12. Chapter 5 – Curating Employee Ethics: Self-Glory Amidst Slow Violence at the China Tobacco Museum 133
13. Part Three. Money and Malfeasance
14. Chapter 6 – Wrangling the Cash Cow: Reforming Tobacco Taxation since Mao 157
15. Chapter 7 – Tobacco Governance: Elite Politics, Subnational Stakeholders, and Historical Context 179
16. Part Four. Obstructing Tobacco Control
17. Chapter 8 – Filtered Cigarettes and the Low-Tar Lie in China 207
18. Chapter 9 – Aiding Tobacco: Academic-Industry Collaboration in China 233
19. Chapter 10– Manuals of Obstruction: China Tobacco Blueprints Its Resistance to the WHO’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control 254
20. Afterword 277
21. Contributors 291
22. Index 295