POSTERS

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"En Chine - Le gâteau des Rois et... des Empereurs," French political cartoon from Le Petit Journal (January 16, 1898).

"Yellow peril" rhetoric such as this was a typical tool for justifying imperialism. It persists even today, as evident in racist "Wuhan Flu" slurs around COVID-19. Amaka Vanni, invoking Saidiya Hartman's famous work, refers to the reproduction of historical models of Empire one as part of "the afterlives of imperialism."