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"--