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1 A Chinese Practical Joke Harper's Rover , 1874 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , May vol. 9 no. 108 1874; (p. 504-506) Recounts the story told by a Chinese merchant after a San Francisco dinner. Full of anti-Chinese stereotypes (eg, eating dogs and cats etc), it is the tale of the farcical plottings surrounding the long-awaited birth of a male child to a rich merchant in China. (PB)
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