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Product Identifiers
PublisherThames & Hudson
ISBN-100500252076
ISBN-139780500252079
eBay Product ID (ePID)201669080
Product Key Features
Book TitleYellow Peril : Dr Fu Manchu and the Rise of Chinaphobia
Number of Pages360 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2014
TopicSocial History, International Relations / General, Asia / China
IllustratorYes
GenrePolitical Science, History
AuthorNot Available
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.5 in
Item Weight28.2 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2014-932768
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal809/.9335851
SynopsisAn entirely new perspective on current scaremongering about China's global ambitions, and on the Western media's ignorance of Chinese culture, One 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, and in his day became as well known as Count Dracula or Sherlock Holmes: the evil genius Dr Fu Manchu, otherwise known 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, a victim of successive famines and utterly incapable of being a 'peril' to anyone even if it had wanted to be? How did it become so firmly rooted that, in the 21st century, stereotypes of bugs put in computers, pollution released into the atmosphere and unfair currency manipulations continue to distort our image of people who, even the author of the Dr Fu Manchu novels, Sax Rohmer, acknowledged, 'as a nation possess that elusive thing, poise'. And what do the Chinese themselves make of all this? Is it any wonder that they remember what we have carelessly forgotten of the opium wars; the 'unfair treaties' that ceded Hong Kong and the New Territories; the slash-and-burn behaviour of troops as 'punishment' for the Boxer Rebellion; and the stereotyping of Chinese people in allegedly 'factual' studies? In a book that will prove as influential as the Orientalism of Edward Said, if we want to understand our deepest desires and fears., A hundred years ago, a character who was to enter the bloodstream of 20th-century popular culture made his first appearance in the world of literature. In his day he became as well known as Count Dracula or Sherlock Holmes: he was 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 China was in chaos, divided against itself, the victim of successive famines and utterly incapable of being a "peril" to anyone even if it had wanted to be? Even the author of the Dr. Fu Manchu novels, Sax Rohmer, acknowledged that China, "as a nation possess that elusive thing, poise." And what do the Chinese themselves make of all this? Is it any wonder that they remember what we have carelessly forgotten-the opium wars; the "unfair treaties" that ceded Hong Kong and the New Territories; and the stereotyping of Chinese people in allegedly factual studies? Here cultural historian Christopher Frayling takes us to the heart of popular culture in the music hall, pulp literature, and the mass-market press, and shows how film amplifies our assumptions.
LC Classification NumberDS740.4
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