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Contents Introduction: Meditations on The Mikado vii Part I. 1885 1. My Objects All Sublime: Racial Performance and Commodity Culture 3 2. “My Artless Japanese Way”: Japanese Villages and Absent Coolies 39 3. Magical Objects and Therapeutic Yellowface 65 Part II. 1938–39 4. “And Others of His Race”: Blackface and Yellowface 83 5. Titipu Comes to America: Hot and Cool Mikados 121 Part III. Contemporary Mikados 6. “The Threatened Cloud”: Production and Protest 141 7. Asian American Mikados 169 8. The Mikado in Japan 187 Acknowledgments 219 Notes 221 Index 247 Figure 1. Caricature of W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan by E. J. Wheeler in Punch, March 28, 1885. ...

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