Xu Bing Tobacco Project

I was researching Tobacco Leaves when I came across this:

Xu Bing's Exhibition in Szechuan

It would seem that Szechuan is a tobacco growing area of China! Not a lot of people know that! And that some years after the Communist takeover, in 1952 BAT (The British American Tobacco Company) was nationalised by the Government. Of course BAT still exists - and is now back in Asia big time trying to sell millions of cigarettes to pre-cancerous teenagers...

Is Xu Bing's work some kind of reflection on Colonialism and ownership? It's difficult to say from this site, but the tobacco-Szechuan syncronicity is spooky!