Between Satire and Politics: Tracing British Perception of China in Punch’s Cartoons

Authors

  • Ziling Song Justus Liebig University Giessen

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2023.1366

Abstract

Cartooning China: Punch, Power & Politics in the Victorian Era by Amy Matthewson provides various insights into the relationship between the famous British magazine Punch and Sino-British politics in the Victorian era. By contextualizing Punch’s cartoons and textual satires of China and the Chinese with the specific history of Sino-British politics, Matthewson argues that Punch played an important role in constructing a fixed idea of China and the Chinese in the British popular imagination, which reveals British self-perception and its role in the world.

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Published

2023-05-15

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KULT_reviews

How to Cite

“Between Satire and Politics: Tracing British Perception of China in Punch’s Cartoons”. 2023. KULT_online, no. 67 (May). https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2023.1366.