Cartooning China Punch, Power, Politics in the Victorian Era (Amy Matthewson, Harriet E H Earle (editor)) (Z-Library)

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CARTOONING CHINA This book explores the series of cartoons of China and the Chinese that were published in the popular British satirical magazine Punch over a sixty-year period from 1841 to 1901. Filled with political metaphors and racial stereotypes, these illustrations served as a powerful tool in both refecting and shaping notions and attitudes towards China at a tumultuous time in Sino-British history. A close reading of both the visual and textual satires in Punch reveals how a section of B…