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Title: "Wars and the Rumors of Wars"
Alternative Title: [comprised of 8 drawings accompanying 8 stanzas of poem -- "War on the Heathen Chinee" depicting Chinese being ousted from manufacturing labor]
Publication Information: TheBancroftLibrary, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-6000; http://bancroft.berkeley.edu
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: Chinese in California Virtual Collection: Selections from the Bancroft Library
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Comprised of eight drawings and eight stanzas of poem -- "War on the Heathen Chinee" depicting Chinese being ousted from manufacturing labor.
Relevant poem stanza: "And the war on the Heathen Chinee / Is as hot now, as hot well can be; / They say that they'll send him / To China, or end him; / These are very brave words -- but we'll see."
Type: image
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb6x0nb1kt
No. 63:196
Subject: Caricature and cartoons
Chinese Americans--Civil rights
Emigration and immigration--Pictorial works
Place: China
Politics and government.

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