England's Yellow Peril

China Penguin Special

Nonfiction, History, Asian, Asia
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Author: Anne Witchard ISBN: 9780857979575
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Publication: November 24, 2014
Imprint: e-penguin Language: English
Author: Anne Witchard
ISBN: 9780857979575
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Publication: November 24, 2014
Imprint: e-penguin
Language: English

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 of propaganda and popular culture, from the daily paper to the latest West End sensation, fanned the flames of national resentment into a raging Sinophobia. Opium eating, gambling and interracial romance became synonymous with London's Limehouse Chinatown, which was exoticised by Sax Rohmer's evil mastermind Fu Manchu and Thomas Burke's tales of lowlife love. England's Yellow Peril exploded in the midst of a catastrophic war and defined the representation of Chinese abroad in the decades to come.

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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 of propaganda and popular culture, from the daily paper to the latest West End sensation, fanned the flames of national resentment into a raging Sinophobia. Opium eating, gambling and interracial romance became synonymous with London's Limehouse Chinatown, which was exoticised by Sax Rohmer's evil mastermind Fu Manchu and Thomas Burke's tales of lowlife love. England's Yellow Peril exploded in the midst of a catastrophic war and defined the representation of Chinese abroad in the decades to come.

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