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Tan, Harry Jiandang. "Visualizing Prejudice: Australian Cartoon Focused on Attacking Chinese Men and White Women’s Relationship, c.1870–1888." ImageTexT 15. 3 2025. Accessed 26Aug. 2025. <https://imagetextjournal.com/tan-prejudice/>. Added by: joachim (26/08/2025, 16:58) |
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| Resource type: Web Article Language: en: English Peer reviewed BibTeX citation key: Tan2025 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Australia, Caricature, Ethnicity, Randformen des Comics, Stereotypes Creators: Tan Collection: ImageTexT |
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This article analyses a significant series of cartoons published in Australia since the 1870s that targeted relationships between Chinese men and White women, frequently casting Chinese men as morally corrupt figures. Iconic works such as Thomas Selby Cousins’s Christian Mothers Selling Their Daughters to the Chinese, Phil May’s Mr. & Mrs. Sin Fat and The Mongolian Octopus became central to anti-Chinese visual rhetoric, employing exaggerated themes of immorality to incite public fear and deepen racial prejudice. Through systematically crafted symbols and visual narratives, these cartoons portrayed Chinese individuals as a societal menace, fostering racial hostility and embedding anti-Chinese sentiment within Australian society. The symbols employed in these works functioned as powerful tools of visual propaganda, inciting prejudice and framing exclusionary policies against Chinese laborers as moral imperatives. This study situates these cartoons and their creators within the broader context of Australian political history, examining the evolution of anti-Chinese visual icons, the narratives that supported them, and the ideological foundations they established for subsequent anti-Chinese political discourse. The analysis highlights how these cartoons contributed to a foundational racist ideology, shaping public attitudes and legitimizing policy measures aimed at excluding Chinese communities in nineteenth-century Australia.
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