Amy Matthewson, Cartooning China: Punch, Power, & Politics in the Victorian Era

Samuel Cheney is a PhD student in History at the University of Edinburgh, AHRC-funded by the Scottish Graduate School of Arts and Humanities (SGSAH). His research examines Perceptions and Representations of Chinese Musicality in Britain, 1860 – 1939, exploring how music and sound influenced British conceptions of China's racial and civilizational profile in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.