Asian Punches: A Transcultural Affair

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Prologue: Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Asian Punch Versions and Related Satirical Journals....Pages 1-11
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The Presence of Punch in the Nineteenth Century....Pages 15-44
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 Punch and Indian Cartoons: The Reception of a Transnational Phenomenon....Pages 47-64
The Possibility of Satire: Reading Pratap Narain Misra’s Brāhmaṇ , 1883–1890....Pages 65-74
From Punch to Matˡvālā : Transcultural Lives of a Literary Format....Pages 75-110
The Punch Tradition in Late Nineteenth Century Bengal: From Pulcinella to Basantak and P $$\tilde{\bar{\rm a}}$$ cu....Pages 111-149
Crossing Boundaries: Punch and the Marathi Weekly Hindu Pañca (1870–1909)....Pages 151-164
 Punch in India: Another History of Colonial Politics?....Pages 165-184
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Insistent Localism in a Satiric World: Shaykh Naggār’s ‘Reed-Pipe’ in the 1890s Cairene Press....Pages 187-218
Abū Nazzāra’s Journey from Victorious Egypt to Splendorous Paris: The Making of an Arabic Punch ....Pages 219-244
Teodor Kassab’s Adaption of the Ottoman Shadow Theatre Karagöz ....Pages 245-270
What’s in a Name? Branding Punch in Cairo, 1908....Pages 271-303
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‘Punch Pictures’: Localising Punch in Meiji Japan....Pages 307-335
‘ Punch ’s Heirs’ Between the (Battle) Lines: Satirical Journalism in the Age of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905....Pages 337-364
Participating in Global Affairs: The Chinese Cartoon Monthly Shanghai Puck ....Pages 365-387
‘He’ll Roast All Subjects That May Need the Roasting’: Puck and Mr Punch in Nineteenth-Century China....Pages 389-422
Epilogue....Pages 423-444