Vermeer's Hat by Timothy Brook

Author:Timothy Brook
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Profile Books
Published: 2000-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

DEKKER WAS NOT WRONG IN supposing that tobacco would soon spread “amongst all nations,” especially in Asia. He prophesied a little too early to know that China would become the foremost smoking nation, and the Chinese people even more enthusiastic to become tobacco’s “adopted heire” than the English. It took little time for what appeared to the English to be a moderate virtue among themselves to appear, when it arrived among the Chinese, like an immoderate vice. An Englishwoman who visited China in the nineteenth century felt entirely justified to criticize the Chinese passion for smoking by declaring the Chinese to be “as fond of smoking as the Turks.” This was not a compliment. She thought it was alright to smoke, just not to smoke to Turkish or Chinese excess.

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