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<p>[QUOTE="SBSVC, post: 1892843, member: 136"]Absolutely.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the early part of the 20th century (into the 1920's & 1930's) Hatamen was one of the cigarette brand names used by the British American Tobacco Company (BAT) in Shanghai. The young women on their posters and calendar were famously portrayed in a way that seemed "westernized" for the times, and there was much controversy about the fact that Hatamen cigarettes were produced by a "western" firm, even tho they were made with Chinese tobacco and Chinese labor.</p><p><br /></p><p>The posters and calendars were considered very collectible at the time, and as Blooey has pointed out, they have been widely reproduced in the years since.</p><p><br /></p><p>There's some good info about Hatamen in a book called <i>Selling Happiness: Calendar Posters and Visual Culture in Early 20th Century Shanghai </i>by Ellen Johnston Laing, University of Hawaii Press, 2004. You can see some of it on Google Books:</p><p><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=-wUJKgG5PHsC&pg=PA171&lpg=PA171&dq=bat+cigarettes+hatamen&source=bl&ots=D8_Wh1gdxz&sig=ACfU3U21a4D2I7kepx9IuNfABldZWSxkGg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiP99r5uNXoAhWplHIEHWg3CTwQ6AEwFXoECA0QNQ#v=onepage&q=bat%20cigarettes%20hatamen&f=false" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://books.google.com/books?id=-wUJKgG5PHsC&pg=PA171&lpg=PA171&dq=bat+cigarettes+hatamen&source=bl&ots=D8_Wh1gdxz&sig=ACfU3U21a4D2I7kepx9IuNfABldZWSxkGg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiP99r5uNXoAhWplHIEHWg3CTwQ6AEwFXoECA0QNQ#v=onepage&q=bat%20cigarettes%20hatamen&f=false" rel="nofollow">https://books.google.com/books?id=-wUJKgG5PHsC&pg=PA171&lpg=PA171&dq=bat+cigarettes+hatamen&source=bl&ots=D8_Wh1gdxz&sig=ACfU3U21a4D2I7kepx9IuNfABldZWSxkGg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiP99r5uNXoAhWplHIEHWg3CTwQ6AEwFXoECA0QNQ#v=onepage&q=bat cigarettes hatamen&f=false</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Another book, also with some excerpts available on Google Books, has a little more info, too: <i>Cigarettes, Inc. : An Intimate History of Corporate Imperialism</i> by Nan Enstad, University of Chicago Press, 2018.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="SBSVC, post: 1892843, member: 136"]Absolutely. In the early part of the 20th century (into the 1920's & 1930's) Hatamen was one of the cigarette brand names used by the British American Tobacco Company (BAT) in Shanghai. The young women on their posters and calendar were famously portrayed in a way that seemed "westernized" for the times, and there was much controversy about the fact that Hatamen cigarettes were produced by a "western" firm, even tho they were made with Chinese tobacco and Chinese labor. The posters and calendars were considered very collectible at the time, and as Blooey has pointed out, they have been widely reproduced in the years since. There's some good info about Hatamen in a book called [I]Selling Happiness: Calendar Posters and Visual Culture in Early 20th Century Shanghai [/I]by Ellen Johnston Laing, University of Hawaii Press, 2004. You can see some of it on Google Books: [URL='https://books.google.com/books?id=-wUJKgG5PHsC&pg=PA171&lpg=PA171&dq=bat+cigarettes+hatamen&source=bl&ots=D8_Wh1gdxz&sig=ACfU3U21a4D2I7kepx9IuNfABldZWSxkGg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiP99r5uNXoAhWplHIEHWg3CTwQ6AEwFXoECA0QNQ#v=onepage&q=bat%20cigarettes%20hatamen&f=false']https://books.google.com/books?id=-wUJKgG5PHsC&pg=PA171&lpg=PA171&dq=bat+cigarettes+hatamen&source=bl&ots=D8_Wh1gdxz&sig=ACfU3U21a4D2I7kepx9IuNfABldZWSxkGg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiP99r5uNXoAhWplHIEHWg3CTwQ6AEwFXoECA0QNQ#v=onepage&q=bat cigarettes hatamen&f=false[/URL] Another book, also with some excerpts available on Google Books, has a little more info, too: [I]Cigarettes, Inc. : An Intimate History of Corporate Imperialism[/I] by Nan Enstad, University of Chicago Press, 2018.[/QUOTE]
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