"the real trouble will come with the wake": a political cartoon from puck depicting the "china question": the division of the weak qing empire—depicted as a chinese dragon with a racist "chinee" face and queue—among the great powers of the world, depicted as the american eagle, the german eagle, the gallic rooster, the british lion, the russian bear, and using a wolf, turkey (properly a kind of two-headed eagle), and jaguar to depict italy, austria-hungary, and the japanese empire. Date: 15 August 1900.
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