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The Yellow Peril

Hardcover • 2014 • 1. edition

The Yellow Peril

By Christopher Frayling

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About the book

A hundred years ago, a character made his first appearance in the world of literature who was to enter the bloodstream of 20th-century popular culture: the evil genius called Dr Fu Manchu, described at the beginning of the first story in which he appeared as `the yellow peril incarnate in one man'. Why did the idea that the Chinese were a threat to Western civilization develop at precisely the time when that country was in chaos, divided against itself, victim of successive famines and utterly i...Show more

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9780500252079

Publisher

Thames & Hudson Ltd

Published year

2014

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1

Original title

The Yellow Peril

Format

Hardcover

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