Sinica Podcast: Matthew Kohrman on China’s unyielding tobacco industry

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This week’s Sinica Podcast is now live: Listen to it now!

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.

Listen now to: Poisonous pandas: Cigarette smoking in China

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