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" Comic China : "
Wendy Gan.
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BL
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845877
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Gan, Wendy
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Comic China : : representing common ground, 1890-1945 /\ Wendy Gan.
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| Publication Statement
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Philadelphia :: Temple University Press,, 2018.
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1 online resource
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1439916292
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: 1439916314
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: 9781439916292
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: 9781439916315
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9781439916292 (cloth : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Dreaming with China : chinoiserie and musical comedy -- Ernest Bramah's Chinese fictions : chinoiserie and comfortable familiarity -- Comic mastery : Arthur Henderson Smith and J.O.P. Bland -- Levelling laughter : travel writing in China between the wars -- Comic parity : the new Shanghailander, likability, and amiable humour.
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"This book looks at Anglo-American comic representations of China, arguing that that there is a forgotten history within these comic depictions that is about finding common ground through humor rather than about expressing superiority and ridicule"--
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East and West.
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East and West.
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HISTORY-- World.
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Public opinion, Western.
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Asia, Foreign public opinion, Western, History.
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China, In popular culture.
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Western countries, Humor.
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Asia.
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China.
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Western countries.
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909/.09821
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CB251
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