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A Touching Appeal: A Parody of “The Yonghy-Bonghy-Bò”

Punch, Vol. 107 (17 November 1894), pp. 234-235. From Amy Matthewson’s Cartooning China: Punch, Power, & Politics in the Victorian Era. London and new York: Routledge, 2022, pp. 114-116. John Tenniel’s “A Touching Appeal” depicts an overgrown childlike Chinese man named Younghy-Bung-Boo-Hoo … Continue reading

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