Poisonous Pandas: Chinese Cigarette Manufacturing in Critical Historical Perspectives

Book Overview

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 clich 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503604470
• ISBN13: 9781503604476
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"