Materiality and Spectacle 2015

Japanese assimilation Comic

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Title

Japanese assimilation Comic

Description

The caption to this comic should read in the first frame "Go, my son, go and study the civilization of the Occident" and "I am industriously studying the civilization of these Americans but it is very expensive. Please send me a bag of dollars" in the second frame.
Japanese often donned Western outfits to avoid ridicule and harassment from Americans at the Centennials and in general in the US. However, Americans took their change in dress as an attempt to imitate and assimilate to American culture.

~Madeleine Hodges~

Source

http://www.gutenberg-e.org/haj01/images/haj10c.html

Source: Daily Graphic (29 May 1876).

Haddad, John Rogers, “Traditional China and the Chinese Yankee: The Centennial Exposition of 1876” in The Romance of China : Excursions to China in U.S. Culture, 1776-1876, ( New York : Columbia University Press), 2009, p. 253-289.

Publisher

Daily Graphic

Date

1876

Files

china_comic.jpg

Citation

“Japanese assimilation Comic,” Materiality and Spectacle 2015, accessed February 2, 2026, https://ds-omeka.haverford.edu/materiality-and-spectacle-2015/items/show/49.