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.