A Chinese Practical Joke single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1874... 1874 A Chinese Practical Joke
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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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