作者的博士论文信息：
题目："No smoking" for the nation: Anti-cigarette campaigns in modern China, 1910--1935.
作者：Liu, Wennan.
学校： University of California, Berkeley.
学位：Ph.D.
指导老师： Yeh, Wen-hsin,eadvisor
学科： HealthSciences,PublicHealth.
来源： Dissertation Abstracts International
出版日期：2009
ISBN：9781124030814
语言：English
摘要：In a gray zone between recreational consumption and drug addiction, cigarette smoking was never officially outlawed, but sporadically condemned in anti-cigarette campaigns launched by social organizations and the government in modern China. Why and how did these campaigns occur in China when no definite evidence could prove that cigarette smoking impairs health? This dissertation investigates the rhetoric, practices, and contexts of three major anti-cigarette campaigns in modern China from 1910 to 1935. Chapter One examines how Edward Thwing, an American missionary, transplanted the American anti-cigarette campaign to the Chinese context and initiated a similar campaign in Tianjin in 1910. Chapter Two explores the anti-cigarette campaign led by Wu Tingfang, a retired Qing official, and the Shanghai social elite in the active public arena in Shanghai on the eve of the Revolution in 1911. Chapters Three and Four scrutinize the anti-cigarette campaign as a part of the New Life Movement launched by Chiang Kai-shek in 1934-1935. Chapter Three examines how the central New Fife Movement designed and implemented the anti-cigarette agenda, which faced resistance within the government because cigarettes were a major source of tax income. With a local perspective, Chapter Four shows how the provincial and county governments in Zhejiang combined the central anti-cigarette agenda with the local initiative to save the rural economy and campaigned actively at the county level. The three campaigns illustrate that the anti-cigarette agenda was embedded in more significant social political themes such as cultivating qualified citizens, saving the national and local economy, and establishing new public etiquettes. The anti-cigarette rhetoric connected the personal action of smoking with the fate of the nation, and thus persuaded individuals to give up smoking for the benefit of the nation. In this sense, the anti-cigarette campaigns also demonstrate the mechanism of informal social control in modern China. The weakness of these campaigns lay not in the rhetoric but in the implementation in which the civil society and the government lacked cooperation.
