Hans Harder & Barbara Mittler 
Asian Punches [PDF ebook] 
A Transcultural Affair

Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Asian Punch Versions and Related Satirical Journals.- Part I: Punch, the Template.- The Presence of Punch in the Nineteenth Century.- Part II: Punch in South Asia.- Punch and Indian Cartoons:The reception of a transnational phenomenon.- The Possibility of Satire: Reading Pratap Narain Misra’s Brāhmaṇ, 1883-1890.- From Punch to Matˡvālā: Transcultural Lives of a Literary Format.- The Punch Tradition in Late Nineteenth Century Bengal: From Pulcinella to Basantak and Pācu.- Crossing the Boundaries: Punch and the Marathi Weekly Hindu Pañca (1870-1909).- Punch in India: Another History of Colonial Politics?.- Part III: Punch in the Middle East.- Insistent Localism in a Satiric World: Shaykh Naggār’s ‘Reed-Pipe’ in the 1890s Cairene Press.- Abu Nazzara’s Journey from Victorious Egypt to Splendorous Paris: The Making of an Arabic Punch.- Teodor Kasab’s Ottoman Adaptation of the Ottoman Shadow Theatre Karagöz.- What’s in a Name? Branding Punch in Cairo, 1908.- Part IV: Punch in East Asia.- ‘Punch Pictures’—Localising Punch in Meiji Japan.- ‘Punch’s Heirs’ between the (Battle) Lines—Satirical Journalism in the Age of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05.- Participating in Global Affairs: The Chinese Cartoon Monthly Shanghai Puck.- ‘He’ll Roast All Subjects That May Need the Roasting’: Puck and Mr. Punch in Nineteenth Century China.