Anne Witchard: 2 books
England's Yellow Peril
China Penguin Special
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
As England suffered heavy casualties at the front during World War One, the nation closed ranks against outsiders at home. England sought to reaffirm its racial dominance at the heart of the empire, and the Chinese in London became the principal scapegoat for anti-foreign sentiment. A combination...
Thomas Burke's Dark Chinoiserie
Limehouse Nights and the Queer Spell of Chinatown
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Focusing on Thomas Burke's bestselling collection of short stories, Limehouse Nights (1916), this book contextualises the burgeoning cult of Chinatown in turn-of-the-century London. London's 'Chinese Quarter' owed its notoriety to the Yellow Perilism that circulated in Britain at the fin-de-siècle,...