29 March 1882 · Chromolithograph
The anti-Chinese wall—the American wall goes up as the Chinese original goes down
Friedrich Graetz
Why it matters
Graetz exposed a contradiction at the centre of “opening China.” An American ship enters the market supposedly created by dismantling China’s wall while Congress and immigrant labourers assemble a racial barrier against Chinese people. Commercial openness and human exclusion appear as two sides of the same order.
- Publication
- Puck, volume 11, number 264
- Holding institution
- Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
- Shelfmark
- Illus. in AP101.P7 v. 11 Case X [P&P]; LC-USZC4-4138
Graetz, Friedrich. The anti-Chinese wall—the American wall goes up as the Chinese original goes down, 1882. Chromolithograph in Puck 11, no. 264, 29 March 1882. Library of Congress, LC-USZC4-4138.
