Saturday, March 09, 2024
One-Shot Wonders: Chinese Money by H.C. Greening, 1903
H.C. Greening jumped around, making appearances at most of the New York syndicates in the 1890s to 1900s, and here he is at McClure with a one-shot strip for their January 11 1903 issue. The gag here regards the Chinese wén, a coin of so minor value that the holed currency was commonly strung together in units of 100 or even 1000 to make for any substantial value.
Labels: One-Shot Wonders
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"John" was colloquial slang for a person of Chinese extraction, a term that by 1900 had already been in use for some decades.
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