A broadside advertising Afong Moy, the first Chinese immigrant to the United States.
Creator: Unknown
Date of Creation: ca. 1842
Place of origin: New Orleans
Physical measurements: 36 x 13 cm.
Materials: Paper
Process by which it was made: Print
Current location: American Antiquarian Society
Further Reading
Cheng, Anne Anlin. Ornamentalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
Davis, Nancy E. The Chinese Lady: Afong Moy in Early America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
Haddad, John. The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture, 1776-1876. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.
Muñoz, José Esteban. “Ephemera as Evidence: Introductory Notes to Queer Acts.” Women and Performance 8, no. 2 (1996): 5–16. doi:10.1080/07407709608571228.
Zhang, Tao. “The Start of American Accommodation of the Chinese: Afong Moy’s Experience from 1834 to 1850.” Journal of American Studies 49, no. 03 (2015): 475–503. doi:10.1017/S0021875814001819.
Information contributed by Christine Yao.