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... beats of global capitalism and imperialism. The British American Tobacco Company made China its largest outpost by the 1920s; Shanghai held its headquarters, and the company was the booming city’s largest employer. The jazz cabarets arose to entertain the legions of foreign businessmen in the city...

... in the early twentieth century, focusing especially on interwar Shanghai, China. Cigarettes and jazz were both big business in Shanghai and they spun together to the fast beats of global capitalism and imperialism. The British American Tobacco Company made China its largest outpost by the 1920s; Shanghai held...

.... However, much of this development work existed only on paper and in the promises of the new government and went largely unfulfilled. People in Ngara often engaged in development projects, such as coffee and tobacco farming, only to find their efforts thwarted by cumbersome and paternalistic bureaucracies...

... to tobacco have inspired more romance or more disgust or more of both at the same time. Even coal, which enters the body as black lung disease, seems to have stirred fear and excitement more readily than have liquid hydrocarbons. We imagine oil—when we imagine it at all—as persistently banal, nothing more...