Ebook: Asian Punches: A Transcultural Affair

This book deals with Punches and Punch-like magazines in 19th and 20th century Asia, covering an area from Egypt and the Ottoman Empire in the West via British India up to China and Japan in the East. It traces an alternative and largely unacknowledged side of the history of this popular British periodical, and simultaneously casts a wide-reaching comparative glance on the genesis of satirical journalism in various Asian countries. Demonstrating the spread of both textual and visual satire, it is an apt demonstration of the transcultural trajectory of a format intimately linked to media-bound public spheres evolving in the period concerned.

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Covering an area from Egypt and the Ottoman Empire in the West via British India up to China and Japan in the East, this book deals with Punches and other Punch-like satirical magazines as they emerged in the 19th and early 20th century. By tracing its transcultural trajectory, the book offers a largely unknown and unacknowledged history around the Punch, one of the most popular British periodicals at the time. Scrutinizing the spread of both textual and visual satire, it casts a wide-reaching comparative glance on the genesis of satirical journalism in Asia and Europe.

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Covering an area from Egypt and the Ottoman Empire in the West via British India up to China and Japan in the East, this book deals with Punches and other Punch-like satirical magazines as they emerged in the 19th and early 20th century. By tracing its transcultural trajectory, the book offers a largely unknown and unacknowledged history around the Punch, one of the most popular British periodicals at the time. Scrutinizing the spread of both textual and visual satire, it casts a wide-reaching comparative glance on the genesis of satirical journalism in Asia and Europe.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-x
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
The Presence of Punch in the Nineteenth Century....Pages 15-44
Front Matter....Pages 45-45
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
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
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
Front Matter....Pages 305-305
‘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
Prologue: Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Asian Punch Versions and Related Satirical Journals....Pages 1-11