Abstract:This article explores satire and comicality in written and visual representations of China using a metaphor introduced by Jonathan Spence in The Chan’s Great Continent: China in Western Minds (1998). Spence labels Western attitudes toward China and the Chinese “sightings.” Spence identified sightings in travel journals, stage plays, short stories, and philosophical tracts, but he did not explore depictions of China in graphic satires and related news reports even though they are rich sources of popular attitud… Show more
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