Poisonous pandas: Cigarette smoking in China

Sinica Podcast

Kaiser Kuo

Culture, China News, Hangzhou, Chinese, International Relations, Chongqing, Beijing, Sichuan, Currentaffairs, China, Politics, Chengdu, Shanghai, Guangzhou, China Economy, News, China Politics, Business, Film, Shenzhen

4.8 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2018

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

This week on the Sinica Podcast, Kaiser and Jeremy chat with Matthew Kohrman, associate professor of anthropology at Stanford University, about his work on China’s tobacco industry – and why China isn’t doing more to curb smoking. His new book on the subject is titled Poisonous Pandas: Chinese Cigarette Manufacturing in Critical Historical Perspectives. Recommendations: Matthew: Jia Zhangke, a Guy From Fenyang. In this documentary, Brazilian filmmaker Walter Salles accompanies the prolific Chinese director Jia Zhangke 贾樟柯 on a walk down memory lane, as he revisits his hometown and other locations used in creating his ever-growing body of work. You can stream it on Netflix. Kaiser: Cigarette Citadels Map, an interactive project that aims to locate all factories producing cigarettes worldwide and expose information about their practices. And Calypso, David Sedaris's new story collection. Jeremy: Arbor Day Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to making the world greener and healthier by planting trees. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Cynical Podcast, a weekly discussion of current affairs in China, produced in partnership with SubChina.
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0:37.1	SubChina is a feast, of course, of business, political, and cultural news about a nation
0:41.4	that is reshaping the world.
0:43.2	I am Kaiser Guo.
0:44.0	I am coming to you today from the Sinica South Studio in downtown Durham, North Carolina.
0:48.4	Joining me from his home in Nashville, Tennessee, is the one and only Jeremy Goldcorn,
0:53.3	editor-in-chief of SubChina.com.
0:55.8	And don't forget, in his culture, they punch back.
0:59.7	He's a little Xi Jinping-inspired humor.
1:02.3	Jeremy, greet the people.
1:05.7	Hi, Kaiser.
1:06.7	Hello, people.
1:07.8	Yeah, which culture is that?
1:10.9	I'm not sure what your culture is. You're sort of intercultural these days. And what is the Chinese for punch back? As it like huangshu? I mean, is punch back the right translation of that? I'm not sure what he actually said anyway.
1:23.8	I don't know, because the only reports were in English. Right, right, right, right.
1:28.0	So today we're going to talk about tobacco, Jeremy, and it's appropriate, I suppose,
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