National animals representing the foreign powers crowd around a sleeping and wounded Chinese dragon; the Russian bear and British lion hold weapons while eagles, a cock, a wolf, and a leopard watch for the dragon to wake.

15 August 1900 · Colour lithograph

The real trouble will come with the “wake”

Udo J. Keppler, attributed; J. Ottmann Lithographic Company, printer

Why it matters

Published as the international force suppressed the Boxer movement and restored foreign economic influence, the cartoon imagines the powers as uneasy victors. China is both the wounded body beneath them and a dragon whose future awakening justifies continued vigilance, containment, and force.

Publication
Puck, volume 48
Holding institution
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Shelfmark
Illus. in AP101.P7 1900 (Case X) [P&P]; LC-DIG-ds-09327
Rights
No known restrictions on publication

Keppler, Udo J., attributed. The real trouble will come with the ‘wake,’ Puck 48, 15 August 1900. Colour lithograph. Library of Congress, LC-DIG-ds-09327.