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Introduction: Meditations on The Mikado
Part 1. 1885
1. My Objects All Sublime: Racial Performance and Commodity Culture
2. “My Artless Japanese Way”: Japanese Villages and Absent Coolies
3. Magical Objects and Therapeutic Yellowface
Part 2. 1938–39
4. “And Others of His Race”: Blackface and Yellowface
5. Titipu Comes to America: Hot and Cool Mikados
Part 3. Contemporary Mikados
6. “The Threatened Cloud”: Production and Protest
7. Asian American Mikados
8. The Mikado in Japan
Acknowledgments
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