Carol Benedict's historical monograph analyzes tobacco production, trade, consumption, and cultural representation in China from 1550 to 2010. The work covers topics such as early globalization, medical culture, gendered consumption, and the rise of the cigarette industry. It is sourced from paperswithcode.
Use Cases
- Analyze historical tobacco consumption patterns based on the described social and spatial differentiation.
- Study the evolution of medical discourse on tobacco based on the Ming-Qing medical culture chapter.
- Model the growth of the Chinese cigarette industry based on the described emergence from 1880-1937.
- Examine literary representations of smoking based on the chapter on Republican China literature.
- Track changes in gendered smoking practices based on the chapter on female smoking decline from 1900-1976.
Strengths
- Provides a long-term historical analysis spanning over 450 years.
- Covers multiple dimensions including economic, medical, social, and cultural aspects.
- The work is authored by a named scholar, Carol Benedict.
Limitations
- The actual dataset content (columns, rows, sample data) is unknown.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Provenance
- Source
- Carol Benedict
- Time Range
- 1550-2010
- Geography
- China